Issue |
A&A
Volume 630, October 2019
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Article Number | A105 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Astrophysical processes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834327 | |
Published online | 27 September 2019 |
Quiescent X-ray variability in the neutron star Be/X-ray transient GRO J1750−27
1
Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: A.roucoescorial@uva.nl
2
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, 666 W. Hancock St, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
3
Eureka Scientific, Inc., 2452 Delmer Street, Oakland, CA 94602, USA
4
SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 Utrecht, The Netherlands
Received:
26
September
2018
Accepted:
2
July
2019
The Be/X-ray transient GRO J1750−27 exhibited a type-II (giant) outburst in 2015. After the source transited to quiescence, we triggered our multi-year Chandra monitoring programme to study its quiescent behaviour. The programme was designed to follow the cooling of a potentially heated neutron-star crust due to accretion of matter during the preceding outburst, similar to what we potentially have observed before in two other Be/X-ray transients, namely 4U 0115+63 and V 0332+53. However, unlike for these other two systems, we do not find any strong evidence that the neutron-star crust in GRO J1750−27 was indeed heated during the accretion phase. We detected the source at a rather low X-ray luminosity (∼1033 erg s−1) during only three of our five observations. When the source was not detected it had very low-luminosity upper limits (< 1032 erg s−1; depending on assumed spectral model). We interpret these detections and the variability observed as emission likely due to very low-level accretion onto the neutron star. We also discuss why the neutron-star crust in GRO J1750−27 might not have been heated while the ones in 4U 0115+63 and V 0332+53 possibly were.
Key words: X-rays: binaries / accretion / accretion disks / stars: neutron / pulsars: individual: GRO J1750−27
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