The discovery of the 528.6 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
The discovery of the 528.6 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195
We present the discovery of 528.6 Hz pulsations in the new X-ray transient MAXI J1816-195. Using NICER, we observed the first recorded transient outburst from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary MAXI J1816-195 over a period of 28 days. From a timing analysis of the 528.6 Hz pulsations, we find that the binary system is well described as a circular orbit with an orbital period of 4.8 hr and a projected semimajor axis of 0.26 lt-s for the pulsar, which constrains the mass of the donor star to 0.10-0.55 M ⊙. Additionally, we observed 15 thermonuclear X-ray bursts showing a gradual evolution in morphology over time, and a recurrence time as short as 1.4 hr. We did not detect evidence for photospheric radius expansion, placing an upper limit on the source distance of 8.6 kpc.
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Bult, Peter
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Altamirano, Diego
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Arzoumanian, Zaven
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Chenevez, Jérôme
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Ferrara, Elizabeth C.
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Gendreau, Keith C.
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Guillot, Sebastien
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Güver, Tolga
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Iwakiri, Wataru
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Jaisawal, Gaurava K.
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Mancuso, Giulio C.
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Malacaria, Christian
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Ng, Mason
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Sanna, Andrea
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Strohmayer, Tod E.
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Wadiasingh, Zorawar
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Wolff, Michael T.
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22 August 2022
Bult, Peter
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Altamirano, Diego
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Arzoumanian, Zaven
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Chenevez, Jérôme
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Ferrara, Elizabeth C.
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Gendreau, Keith C.
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Guillot, Sebastien
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Güver, Tolga
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Iwakiri, Wataru
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Jaisawal, Gaurava K.
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Mancuso, Giulio C.
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Malacaria, Christian
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Ng, Mason
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Sanna, Andrea
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Strohmayer, Tod E.
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Wadiasingh, Zorawar
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Wolff, Michael T.
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Bult, Peter, Altamirano, Diego, Arzoumanian, Zaven, Chakrabarty, Deepto, Chenevez, Jérôme, Ferrara, Elizabeth C., Gendreau, Keith C., Guillot, Sebastien, Güver, Tolga, Iwakiri, Wataru, Jaisawal, Gaurava K., Mancuso, Giulio C., Malacaria, Christian, Ng, Mason, Sanna, Andrea, Strohmayer, Tod E., Wadiasingh, Zorawar and Wolff, Michael T.
(2022)
The discovery of the 528.6 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1816-195.
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 935 (2), [L32].
(doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ac87f9).
Abstract
We present the discovery of 528.6 Hz pulsations in the new X-ray transient MAXI J1816-195. Using NICER, we observed the first recorded transient outburst from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary MAXI J1816-195 over a period of 28 days. From a timing analysis of the 528.6 Hz pulsations, we find that the binary system is well described as a circular orbit with an orbital period of 4.8 hr and a projected semimajor axis of 0.26 lt-s for the pulsar, which constrains the mass of the donor star to 0.10-0.55 M ⊙. Additionally, we observed 15 thermonuclear X-ray bursts showing a gradual evolution in morphology over time, and a recurrence time as short as 1.4 hr. We did not detect evidence for photospheric radius expansion, placing an upper limit on the source distance of 8.6 kpc.
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Accepted/In Press date: 8 August 2022
Published date: 22 August 2022
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This work made use of data and software provided by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC). P.B. acknowledges support from NASA through the NICER Guest Observer Program and the CRESST II cooperative agreement (80GSFC21M0002). S.G. acknowledges the support of the CNES. D.A. acknowledges support from the Royal Society. G.C.M. was partially supported by Proyecto de Investigación Plurianual (PIP) 0102 (Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)) and from PICT-2017-2865 (Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT)). NICER science team members at NRL are supported by NASA under Interagency Agreement NNG200808A.
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Peter Bult
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Zaven Arzoumanian
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Deepto Chakrabarty
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Jérôme Chenevez
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Elizabeth C. Ferrara
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Keith C. Gendreau
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Sebastien Guillot
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Tolga Güver
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Wataru Iwakiri
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Gaurava K. Jaisawal
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Giulio C. Mancuso
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Christian Malacaria
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Mason Ng
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Andrea Sanna
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Tod E. Strohmayer
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Zorawar Wadiasingh
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Michael T. Wolff
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