Synchrotron Cutoff in Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources

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作者：

Ghosh, Tanuman ^{[1
]}

Sethi, Shiv ^{[1
]}

Rana, Vikram ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Raman Res Inst, Astron & Astrophys, CV Raman Ave, Bangalore 560080, Karnataka, India

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2023年 / 948卷 / 01期

关键词：

OPTICALLY THICK ENVELOPES; BROAD-BAND; NEUTRON-STARS; PULSING ULXS; NGC; 5907; PULSAR; EMISSION; NUSTAR; CONSTRAINTS; ACCRETION;

D O I：

10.3847/1538-4357/acbb60

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The origin of spectral curvature at energies E similar or equal to 10 keV in ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) is not well understood. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism based on synchrotron radiation to explain this cutoff. We show that relativistic plasma can give rise to the observed spectral curvature for neutron star magnetic fields due to the variation in the latitude of synchrotron radiation. We analyze the NuSTAR data of two bright pulsar ULXs, NGC 5907 ULX1 and NGC 7793 P13, and provide estimates of the physical parameters of these sources. We fit the data for synchrotron emission at various latitudes and show that the spectral cutoff in these cases can be explained for a large range of acceptable physical parameters, e.g., a semirelativistic plasma with gamma similar or equal to 20 for high latitudes or a highly relativistic plasma (gamma similar or equal to 10(5)) for emission close to the electron's orbital plane in a typical magnetic field of B similar or equal to 10(12) G. We also discuss how such an emission mechanism can be distinguished from other proposed models. A corollary to our study is that most ULXs might be neutron stars as they display such a spectral cutoff.

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