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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29391
Title: Effects of interstellar dust scattering on the X-ray eclipses of the LMXB AX J1745.6-2901 in the Galactic Centre
Authors: Jin, Chichuan
PONTI, GABRIELE 
Haberl, Frank
Smith, Randall
Valencic, Lynne
Issue Date: 2018
Journal: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 
Number: 477
Issue: 3
First Page: 3480
Abstract: AX J1745.6-2901 is an eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary in the Galactic Centre (GC). It shows significant X-ray excess emission during the eclipse phase, and its eclipse light curve shows an asymmetric shape. We use archival XMM-Newton and Chandra observations to study the origin of these peculiar X-ray eclipsing phenomena. We find that the shape of the observed X-ray eclipse light curves depends on both photon energy and the shape of the source extraction region, and also shows differences between the two instruments. By performing detailed simulations for the time-dependent X-ray dust-scattering halo, as well as directly modelling the observed eclipse and non-eclipse halo profiles of AX J1745.6-2901, we obtained solid evidence that its peculiar eclipse phenomena are indeed caused by the X-ray dust scattering in multiple foreground dust layers along the line of sight (LOS). The apparent dependence on the instruments is caused by different instrumental point spread functions. Our results can be used to assess the influence of dust-scattering in other eclipsing X-ray sources, and raise the importance of considering the timing effects of dust-scattering halo when studying the variability of other X-ray sources in the GC, such as Sgr A<SUP>⋆</SUP>. Moreover, our study of halo eclipse reinforces the existence of a dust layer local to AX J1745.6-2901 as reported by Jin et al. (2017), as well as identifying another dust layer within a few hundred parsecs to the Earth, containing up to several tens of percent LOS dust, which is likely to be associated with the molecular clouds in the Solar neighbourhood. The remaining LOS dust is likely to be associated with the molecular clouds located in the Galactic disc in-between.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29391
URL: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/477/3/3480/4963755?login=true
ISSN: 0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty869
Bibcode ADS: 2018MNRAS.477.3480J
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