A rapid optical and X-ray timing study of the neutron star X-ray binary Swift J1858.6-0814

Accepted/In Press date: 12 January 2023

e-pub ahead of print date: 14 January 2023

Published date: 1 March 2023

Additional Information: Funding Information: Based on observations were made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias, installed at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, on the island of La Palma. Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under ESO programme 096.D-0808. We gratefully acknowledge the use of python packages: matplotlib (Hunter ) and numpy (van der Walt, Colbert & Varoquaux ). We acknowledge to use of Aladin (Bonnarel et al. ). This research has made use of data and/or software provided by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), which is a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC and the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen’s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE). Funding Information: TS and VSD acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) under grant PID2020-114822GB-I00. KMR acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 694745). PG and JAP acknowledges support from Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and a UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership. TRM acknowledges support from STFC, grant ST/T000406/1. MRK acknowledges support from the Irish Research Council in the form of a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (GOIPD/2021/670: Invisible Monsters). MRK, RPB, and CJC acknowledge support from the ERC under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 715051; Spiders). The design and construction of HiPERCAM was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) under ERC-2013-ADG Grant Agreement no. 340040 (HiPERCAM). HiPERCAM operations and VSD are supported by STFC grant ST/V000853/1. Funding Information: TS and VSD acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) under grant PID2020-114822GB-I00. KMR acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 694745). PG and JAP acknowledges support from Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and a UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnership. TRM acknowledges support from STFC, grant ST/T000406/1. MRK acknowledges support from the Irish Research Council in the form of a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (GOIPD/2021/670: Invisible Monsters). MRK, RPB, and CJC acknowledge support from the ERC under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 715051; Spiders). The design and construction of HiPERCAM was funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) under ERC-2013-ADG Grant Agreement no. 340040 (HiPERCAM). HiPERCAM operations and VSD are supported by STFC grant ST/V000853/1. Based on observations were made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias, installed at the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, on the island of La Palma. Based on observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under ESO programme 096.D-0808. We gratefully acknowledge the use of PYTHON packages: MATPLOTLIB (Hunter 2007) and NUMPY (van der Walt, Colbert & Varoquaux 2011). We acknowledge to use of Aladin (Bonnarel et al. 2000). This research has made use of data and/or software provided by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), which is a service of the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA/GSFC and the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen’s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE). Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s)

Keywords: astro-ph.HE, accretion, X-rays: binaries, X-rays: individual: Swift J1858.6−0814, accretion discs, stars: neutron

Local EPrints ID: 475254

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/475254

DOI: doi:10.1093/mnras/stad163

ISSN: 1365-2966

PURE UUID: 3c723865-c2a0-4ce0-8f06-ec36689f54b6

ORCID for P. Gandhi: orcid.org/0000-0003-3105-2615

Date deposited: 14 Mar 2023 17:50

Last modified: 10 Apr 2024 01:50