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2016MNRAS.461.4395K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 461, 4395-4399 (2016/October-1)

A possible 55-d X-ray period of the ultraluminous accreting pulsar M82 X-2.

KONG A.K.H., HU C., LIN L.C., LI K.L., JIN R., LIU C.Y. and YEN D.C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report on the possible detection of a 55-d X-ray modulation for the ultraluminous accreting pulsar M82 X-2 from archival Chandra observations. Because M82 X-2 is known to have a 2.5-d orbital period, if the 55-d period is real, then it will be the superorbital period of the system. We also investigated variabilities of three other nearby ultraluminous X-ray sources in the central region of M82 with the Chandra data, and we did not find any evidence of periodicities. Furthermore, we re-examined the previously reported 62-d periodicity near the central region of M82 by performing a systematic timing study with all the archival Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer and Swift data. Using various dynamic timing analysis methods, we have confirmed that the 62-d period is not stable, suggesting that it is not the orbital period of M82 X-1; this is in agreement with previous work.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): methods: data analysis - galaxies: individual: M82 - X-rays: binaries - X-rays: individual: M82 X-1 - X-rays: individual: M82 X-2 - X-rays: individual: M82 X-2

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