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Title: | Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients uncovered by the EXTraS project: flares reveal the development of magnetospheric instability in accreting neutron stars | Authors: | SIDOLI, Lara Postnov, Konstantin A. Belfiore, Andrea MARELLI, MARTINO Salvetti, David SALVATERRA, Ruben DE LUCA, Andrea ESPOSITO, PAOLO |
Issue Date: | 2019 | Journal: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Number: | 487 | Issue: | 1 | First Page: | 420 | Abstract: | The low luminosity, X-ray flaring activity, of the sub-class of high-mass X-ray binaries called Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, has been investigated using XMM-Newton public observations, taking advantage of the products made publicly available by the EXTraS project. One of the goals of EXTraS was to extract from the XMM-Newton public archive information on the aperiodic variability of all sources observed in the soft X-ray range with EPIC (0.2-12 keV). Adopting a Bayesian block decomposition of the X-ray light curves of a sample of SFXTs, we picked out 144 X-ray flares, covering a large range of soft X-ray luminosities (10<SUP>32</SUP>-10<SUP>36</SUP> erg s<SUP>-1</SUP>). We measured temporal quantities, like the rise time to and the decay time from the peak of the flares, their duration and the time interval between adjacent flares. We also estimated the peak luminosity, average accretion rate, and energy release in the flares. The observed soft X-ray properties of low-luminosity flaring activity from SFXTs is in qualitative agreement with what is expected by the application of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability model in accreting plasma near the neutron star magnetosphere. In the case of rapidly rotating neutron stars, sporadic accretion from temporary discs cannot be excluded. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29130 | URL: | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/487/1/420/5487899 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.00897.pdf |
ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stz1283 | Bibcode ADS: | 2019MNRAS.487..420S | Fulltext: | open |
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