Probing spectral and temporal evolution of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1724-30 with AstroSat
Abstract
We report the broad-band spectro-temporal study of the poorly studied accreting neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 4U 1724-30 using data from Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) and Large Area X-ray Proportional Counters (LAXPC) instruments on board AstroSat. The dim persistent LMXB source was observed with AstroSat over 4 epochs in 2017, all of which corresponded to a low-luminosity non-thermal emission dominated (hard/island) emission state with modest spectral evolution. All the X-ray broad-band spectra can be modelled by a combination of thermal emission from the NS boundary layer (BL) or NS surface and a non-thermal emission component possibly originating from the inverse Comptonization of the disc seed photons. We investigate the presence of frequency and energy-dependent variabilities to probe the origin of the disc/coronal fluctuations. We also report the detection of a Type-I X-ray burst displaying a photospheric radius expansion (PRE). During the burst, a hard X-ray shortage in the 30-80 keV energy band and the enhancement of the persistent emission reveal the burst feedback on the overall accretion process. Using the touch-down burst flux ~4.25 × 10-8 erg s-1 cm-2, the distance of the source is estimated as ~8.4 kpc.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2203.16568
- Bibcode:
- 2022MNRAS.512.6180K
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion discs;
- stars: individual: 4U 1724-30;
- stars: neutron;
- X-rays: binaries;
- X-rays: stars;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS