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dc.contributor.authorManikantan, Hemanth-
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Biswajit-
dc.contributor.authorRana, Vikram-
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T05:29:10Z-
dc.date.available2023-09-26T05:29:10Z-
dc.date.issued2023-11-01-
dc.identifier.citationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, Vol. 526, p1en_US
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711-
dc.identifier.issn1365-2966 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/8149-
dc.descriptionOpen Accessen_US
dc.description.abstractSome of the accreting X-ray pulsars are reported to exhibit a peculiar spectral feature at ∼10 keV, known as the ‘10 keV feature’. The feature has been characterized as either an emission line or an absorption line, and its origin is unknown. It has been found in multiple observations of the same source by different observatories, but not all the observations of any particular source consistently showed the presence of it. In this work, we have carried out a systematic investigation for the presence of the ‘10 keV feature’ using data from NuSTAR, a low background spectroscopic observatory having uninterrupted wide band coverage on either side of 10 keV. We performed a systematic spectral analysis on 58 archival NuSTAR observations of 30 bright X-ray pulsars. The 3–79 keV spectral continua of these selected sources were fitted with a model chosen on the basis of its fitting quality in 3–15 keV and model simplicity, and then inspected for the presence of the ‘10 keV feature’. Our analysis indicates the presence of such a feature in 16 out of 58 the NuSTAR observations of 11 different sources and is fitted with a Gaussian absorption model centred around 10 keV. Our analysis also suggests that such a feature could be wrongly detected if flare data is not analysed separately from persistent emission.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Societyen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad2527en_US
dc.rights2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectaccretionen_US
dc.subjectaccretion discsen_US
dc.subjectmethods: data analysisen_US
dc.subjectpulsars: generalen_US
dc.subjectX-rays: binariesen_US
dc.titleAn investigation of the ‘10 keV feature’ in the spectra of accretion powered X-ray pulsars with NuSTARen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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