X-ray coherent pulsations during a sub-luminous accretion disc state of the transitional millisecond pulsar XSS J12270−4859

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  • A. Papitto
    1Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Fac. de Ciències, Torre C5, parell, 2a planta, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
  • D. de Martino
    2INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, salita Moiariello 16, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
  • T. M. Belloni
    3INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate (LC), Italy
  • M. Burgay
    4INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Via della Scienza, I-09047 Selargius (CA), Italy
  • A. Pellizzoni
    4INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Via della Scienza, I-09047 Selargius (CA), Italy
  • A. Possenti
    4INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, Via della Scienza, I-09047 Selargius (CA), Italy
  • D. F. Torres
    1Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Fac. de Ciències, Torre C5, parell, 2a planta, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain

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2015-02-25
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  • 10.1093/mnrasl/slv013
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Oxford University Press (OUP)

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We present the first detection of X-ray coherent pulsations from the transitional millisecond pulsar XSS J12270−4859, while it was in a sub-luminous accretion disc state characterized by a 0.5–10 keV luminosity of 5 × 1033 erg s−1 (assuming a distance of 1.4 kpc). Pulsations were observed by XMM–Newton at an rms amplitude of (7.7 ± 0.5) per cent with a second harmonic stronger than the fundamental frequency, and were detected when the source is neither flaring nor dipping. The most likely interpretation of this detection is that matter from the accretion disc was channelled by the neutron star magnetosphere and accreted on to its polar caps. According to standard disc accretion theory, for pulsations to be observed the mass inflow rate in the disc was likely larger than the amount of plasma actually reaching the neutron star surface; an outflow launched by the fast rotating magnetosphere then probably took place, in agreement with the observed broad-band spectral energy distribution. We also report about the non-detection of X-ray pulsations during a recent observation performed while the source behaved as a rotationally-powered radio pulsar.</jats:p>

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