No magnetars in ULXs
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In this article, the authors consider the current observed ensemble of pulsing ultraluminous X-ray sources (PULXs) and show that all of their observed properties (luminosity, spin period, and spin-up rate) are consistent with emission from magnetic neutron stars with fields in the usual range 1011-1013G.Abstract:
We consider the current observed ensemble of pulsing ultraluminous X-ray sources (PULXs). We show that all of their observed properties (luminosity, spin period, and spin-up rate) are consistent with emission from magnetic neutron stars with fields in the usual range 1011--1013G, which is collimated (‘beamed’) by the outflow from an accretion disc supplied with mass at a super-Eddington rate, but ejecting the excess, in the way familiar for other (non-pulsing) ULXs. The observed properties are inconsistent with magnetar-strength fields in all cases. We point out that all proposed pictures of magnetar formation suggest that they are unlikely to be members of binary systems, in agreement with the observation that all confirmed magnetars are single. The presence of magnetars in ULXs is therefore improbable, in line with our conclusions above.read more
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Observational diversity of magnetized neutron stars.
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Discovery of a 2.8 s pulsar in a 2 day orbit high-mass x-ray binary powering the ultraluminous x-ray Source ULX-7 in M51.
G. A. Rodriguez Castillo,G. L. Israel,Andrea Belfiore,Federico Bernardini,Paolo Esposito,F. Pintore,A. De Luca,Alessandro Papitto,Luigi Stella,Andrea Tiengo,Luca Zampieri,Matteo Bachetti,Murray Brightman,Piergiorgio Casella,Daniele D'Agostino,Simone Dall'Osso,H. P. Earnshaw,F. Fürst,Frank Haberl,Fiona A. Harrison,Michela Mapelli,M. Marelli,Matthew Middleton,Carmine Pinto,Timothy P.L. Roberts,Ruben Salvaterra,R. Turolla,Dom Walton,Anna Wolter +28 more
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TL;DR: In this paper, a cyclotron resonance scattering feature produced by the strong magnetic field of a neutron star was detected at a significance of 3.8σ of an absorption line at 4.5 keV in the Chandra spectrum of a ULX in M51.
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