First characterization of a new high-mass X-ray binary in LMC eRASSU J050810.4-660653 with SRG/ART-XC, NuSTAR, and Swift

: Salganik Alexander, Tsygankov Sergey S, Lutovinov Alexander A, Mushtukov Alexander A, Mereminskiy Ilya A, Molkov Sergey V, Semena Andrei N

Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS

: 2022

: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

: MON NOT R ASTRON SOC

: 514

: 3

: 4018

: 4025

: 8

: 0035-8711

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1608

: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1608

: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03395

We report results of the first detailed spectral and temporal studies of the recently discovered Be/X-ray binary eRASSU J050810.4-660653 in Large Magellanic Cloud based on the data from the SRG/ART-XC, NuSTAR and Swift/XRT instruments obtained in 2021 December-2022 May in a wide energy range of 0.5-79 keV. Pulsations with the period of 40.5781 +/- 0.0004 s were found in the source light curve with the pulsed fraction monotonically increasing with the energy. An estimate of the orbital period of similar to 38 d was obtained based on the long-term monitoring of the system. The source spectrum can be well approximated with a power-law model modified by an exponential cutoff at high energies. The pulse phase-resolved spectroscopy shows a strong variation of spectral parameters depending on the phase of a neutron star rotation. We have not found any features connected with the cyclotron absorption line both in the phase-averaged and phase-resolved spectra of eRASSU J050810.4-660653. However, the neutron star magnetic field was estimated around several 10(13) G using different indirect methods. Discovered variations of the hardness ratio over the pulse phase is discussed in terms of physical and geometrical properties of the emitting region.