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Main Authors: Li, Zhaosheng, Kuiper, Lucien, Pan, Yuanyue, Xu, Renxin, Chen, Yong, Ge, Mingyu, Huang, Yue, Jia, Shumei, Li, Xiaobo, Song, Liming, Qu, Jinlu, Zhang, Shu, Tao, Lian, Feng, Hua, Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Falanga, Maurizio
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00793
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author Li, Zhaosheng
Kuiper, Lucien
Pan, Yuanyue
Xu, Renxin
Chen, Yong
Ge, Mingyu
Huang, Yue
Jia, Shumei
Li, Xiaobo
Song, Liming
Qu, Jinlu
Zhang, Shu
Tao, Lian
Feng, Hua
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Falanga, Maurizio
author_facet Li, Zhaosheng
Kuiper, Lucien
Pan, Yuanyue
Xu, Renxin
Chen, Yong
Ge, Mingyu
Huang, Yue
Jia, Shumei
Li, Xiaobo
Song, Liming
Qu, Jinlu
Zhang, Shu
Tao, Lian
Feng, Hua
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Falanga, Maurizio
contents SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 is a newly confirmed accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar and type I X-ray burster. We present the broadband X-ray timing and spectral behaviors of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 during its 2024 outburst. The data were collected from NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, Insight-HXMT, NuSTAR and INTEGRAL observations. X-ray pulsations have been detected for the 1.5--90 keV energy range throughout the `ON' phase of the outburst from MJD $\sim 60355-60385$. We refined the orbital and spin ephemerides assuming a circular orbit, and found that the pulsar was in a spin-up state during MJD $\sim$ 60361--60377 showing a significant spin-up rate $\dotν$ of $(3.15\pm 0.36)\times10^{-13}~{\rm Hz~s^{-1}}$. Around MJD $\sim 60377$ a swing was detected in the spin evolution accompanied by significantly enhanced pulsed emission. We studied the pulse profile morphology during the X-ray bursts as observed by Insight-HXMT, IXPE and NuSTAR. During the bursts, pulsations were detected across the 2--60 keV with shapes broadly consistent with those observed for the persistent emission. We found, however, that the `burst' pulse profiles exhibit significant phase offsets relative to the pre- and post-burst profiles. These offsets systematically decrease with increasing energy, $Δϕ\approx0.15$, 0.11 and 0.02 for IXPE, Insight-HXMT ME and HE in 2--8, 5--30 and 20--60 keV, respectively, and $Δϕ\approx 0.21$, 0.10 and 0.07 for NuSTAR in 3--10, 20--35 and 35--60 keV, respectively, compared to the pre- and post-burst profiles. We performed a joint spectral analysis of quasi-simultaneous NICER, NuSTAR, and Insight-HXMT data for two epochs. The resulting spectra from both observations were consistent and well-described by an absorbed thermal Comptonization model, nthcomp, plus relativistic reflection, relxillCp.
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spellingShingle Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
Li, Zhaosheng
Kuiper, Lucien
Pan, Yuanyue
Xu, Renxin
Chen, Yong
Ge, Mingyu
Huang, Yue
Jia, Shumei
Li, Xiaobo
Song, Liming
Qu, Jinlu
Zhang, Shu
Tao, Lian
Feng, Hua
Zhang, Shuang-Nan
Falanga, Maurizio
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 is a newly confirmed accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar and type I X-ray burster. We present the broadband X-ray timing and spectral behaviors of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 during its 2024 outburst. The data were collected from NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, Insight-HXMT, NuSTAR and INTEGRAL observations. X-ray pulsations have been detected for the 1.5--90 keV energy range throughout the `ON' phase of the outburst from MJD $\sim 60355-60385$. We refined the orbital and spin ephemerides assuming a circular orbit, and found that the pulsar was in a spin-up state during MJD $\sim$ 60361--60377 showing a significant spin-up rate $\dotν$ of $(3.15\pm 0.36)\times10^{-13}~{\rm Hz~s^{-1}}$. Around MJD $\sim 60377$ a swing was detected in the spin evolution accompanied by significantly enhanced pulsed emission. We studied the pulse profile morphology during the X-ray bursts as observed by Insight-HXMT, IXPE and NuSTAR. During the bursts, pulsations were detected across the 2--60 keV with shapes broadly consistent with those observed for the persistent emission. We found, however, that the `burst' pulse profiles exhibit significant phase offsets relative to the pre- and post-burst profiles. These offsets systematically decrease with increasing energy, $Δϕ\approx0.15$, 0.11 and 0.02 for IXPE, Insight-HXMT ME and HE in 2--8, 5--30 and 20--60 keV, respectively, and $Δϕ\approx 0.21$, 0.10 and 0.07 for NuSTAR in 3--10, 20--35 and 35--60 keV, respectively, compared to the pre- and post-burst profiles. We performed a joint spectral analysis of quasi-simultaneous NICER, NuSTAR, and Insight-HXMT data for two epochs. The resulting spectra from both observations were consistent and well-described by an absorbed thermal Comptonization model, nthcomp, plus relativistic reflection, relxillCp.
title Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00793