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Feb, 2009

Search for Near-Infrared Pulsation of the Anomalous X-Ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61

PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • Mikio Morii
  • ,
  • Naoto Kobayashi
  • ,
  • Nobuyuki Kawai
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Terada
  • ,
  • Yasuyuki T. Tanaka
  • ,
  • Shunji Kitamoto
  • ,
  • Noriaki Shibazaki

Volume
61
Number
1
First page
51
Last page
56
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1093/pasj/61.1.51
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS

We have searched for pulsation of the anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) 4U 0142+61 in the K' band (lambda(eff) = 2.11 mu m) using the fast-readout mode of Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (IRCS) at the Subaru 8.2 m telescope. We found no significant signal at the pulse frequency expected by the precise ephemeris based on an X-ray monitoring observation with RXTE. Nonetheless, we obtained the best upper limit of 17% (90% C.L.) for the root-means-quare pulse fraction in the K' band. Combined with the i' band pulsation (Dhillon et a]. 2005, MNRAS, 363, 609), the slope of the pulsed component (F-nu alpha nu(alpha) in units of Jy) was constrained to alpha > -0.87 (90% C.L.) for an interstellar extinction of A(V) = 3.5.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/61.1.51
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000264417900006&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1093/pasj/61.1.51
  • ISSN : 0004-6264
  • eISSN : 2053-051X
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000264417900006

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