Return to the forgotten ULX: a broadband NICER+NuSTAR study of NGC 4190 ULX-1
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| author | Earnshaw, Hannah P Bachetti, Matteo Brightman, Murray Fürst, Felix Harrison, Fiona A. Middleton, Matthew Ludlam, Renee Pike, Sean N. Stern, Daniel Walton, Dominic J. |
| author_facet | Earnshaw, Hannah P Bachetti, Matteo Brightman, Murray Fürst, Felix Harrison, Fiona A. Middleton, Matthew Ludlam, Renee Pike, Sean N. Stern, Daniel Walton, Dominic J. |
| contents | We observed the nearby and relatively understudied ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 4190 ULX-1 jointly with NICER and NuSTAR to investigate its broadband spectrum, timing properties, and spectral variation over time. We found NGC 4190 ULX-1 to have a hard spectrum characterized by two thermal components (with temperatures ~0.25keV and ~1.6keV) and a high-energy excess typical of the ULX population, although the spectrum turns over at an unusually low energy. While no pulsations were detected, (with pulsed fraction 3-sigma upper limits of 16% for NICER and 35% for NuSTAR), the source shows significant stochastic variability and the covariance spectrum indicates the presence of a high-energy cut-off power-law component, potentially indicative of an accretion column. Additionally, when fitting archival XMM-Newton data with a similar model, we find that the luminosity-temperature evolution of the hot thermal component follows the behavior of a super-Eddington slim disk though the expected spectral broadening for such a disk is not seen, suggesting that the inner accretion disk may be truncated by a magnetic field. Therefore, despite the lack of detected pulsations, there is tantalizing evidence for NGC 4190 ULX-1 being a candidate neutron star accretor, although further broadband observations will be required to confirm this behavior. |
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| spellingShingle | Return to the forgotten ULX: a broadband NICER+NuSTAR study of NGC 4190 ULX-1 Earnshaw, Hannah P Bachetti, Matteo Brightman, Murray Fürst, Felix Harrison, Fiona A. Middleton, Matthew Ludlam, Renee Pike, Sean N. Stern, Daniel Walton, Dominic J. High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena We observed the nearby and relatively understudied ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 4190 ULX-1 jointly with NICER and NuSTAR to investigate its broadband spectrum, timing properties, and spectral variation over time. We found NGC 4190 ULX-1 to have a hard spectrum characterized by two thermal components (with temperatures ~0.25keV and ~1.6keV) and a high-energy excess typical of the ULX population, although the spectrum turns over at an unusually low energy. While no pulsations were detected, (with pulsed fraction 3-sigma upper limits of 16% for NICER and 35% for NuSTAR), the source shows significant stochastic variability and the covariance spectrum indicates the presence of a high-energy cut-off power-law component, potentially indicative of an accretion column. Additionally, when fitting archival XMM-Newton data with a similar model, we find that the luminosity-temperature evolution of the hot thermal component follows the behavior of a super-Eddington slim disk though the expected spectral broadening for such a disk is not seen, suggesting that the inner accretion disk may be truncated by a magnetic field. Therefore, despite the lack of detected pulsations, there is tantalizing evidence for NGC 4190 ULX-1 being a candidate neutron star accretor, although further broadband observations will be required to confirm this behavior. |
| title | Return to the forgotten ULX: a broadband NICER+NuSTAR study of NGC 4190 ULX-1 |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13973 |