Discovery of thermonuclear Type-I X-ray bursts from the X-ray binary MAXI J1807+132
Discovery of thermonuclear Type-I X-ray bursts from the X-ray binary MAXI J1807+132
MAXI J1807+132 is a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) first detected in outburst in 2017. Observations during the 2017 outburst did not allow for an unambiguous identification of the nature of the compact object. MAXI J1807+132 was detected in outburst again in 2019 and was monitored regularly with NICER. In this paper we report on five days of observations during which we detected three thermonuclear (Type-I) X-ray bursts, identifying the system as a neutron star LMXB. Time-resolved spectroscopy of the three Type-I bursts revealed typical characteristics expected for these phenomena. All three Type-I bursts show slow rises and long decays, indicative of mixed H/He fuel. We find no strong evidence that any of the Type-I bursts reached the Eddington Luminosity; however, under the assumption that the brightest X-ray burst underwent photospheric radius expansion, we estimate a
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Albayati, A. C., Altamirano, D., Jaisawal, G. K., Bult, P., Rapisarda, S., Mancuso, G. C., Güver, T., Arzoumanian, Z., Chakrabarty, D., Chenevez, J., Court, J. M. C., Gendreau, K. C., Guillot, S., Keek, L., Malacaria, C. and Strohmayer, T. E.
(2020)
Discovery of thermonuclear Type-I X-ray bursts from the X-ray binary MAXI J1807+132.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501 (1), .
(doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3657).
Abstract
MAXI J1807+132 is a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) first detected in outburst in 2017. Observations during the 2017 outburst did not allow for an unambiguous identification of the nature of the compact object. MAXI J1807+132 was detected in outburst again in 2019 and was monitored regularly with NICER. In this paper we report on five days of observations during which we detected three thermonuclear (Type-I) X-ray bursts, identifying the system as a neutron star LMXB. Time-resolved spectroscopy of the three Type-I bursts revealed typical characteristics expected for these phenomena. All three Type-I bursts show slow rises and long decays, indicative of mixed H/He fuel. We find no strong evidence that any of the Type-I bursts reached the Eddington Luminosity; however, under the assumption that the brightest X-ray burst underwent photospheric radius expansion, we estimate a
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S. Rapisarda
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G. C. Mancuso
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Z. Arzoumanian
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D. Chakrabarty
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J. Chenevez
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J. M. C. Court
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L. Keek
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C. Malacaria
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T. E. Strohmayer
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