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Revealing a new black widow binary 4FGL J0336.0+7502
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Revealing a new black widow binary 4FGL J0336.0+7502

Kwan-Lok Li, Y.X. Jane Yap, Chung Yue HuiAlbert K.H. Kong
Astrophysical Journal, 卷.911(2), 92
04/2021

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science
We report on the discovery of a promising candidate for a black widow (BW) millisecond pulsar binary, 4FGL J0336.0+7502, which shows many pulsar-like properties in the 4FGL-DR2 catalog. Within the 95% error region of the LAT source, we identified an optical counterpart with a clear periodicity at P <sub>orb</sub> = 3.718178(9) hr using the Bohyunsan 1.8 m Telescope, the Lulin One-meter Telescope, the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope, and Gemini-North. At the optical position, an X-ray source was marginally detected in the Swift/X-Ray Telescope archival data, and the detection was confirmed by our Chandra/ACIS DDT observation. The spectrum of the X-ray source can be described by a power-law model of Γ <sub>x</sub> = 1.6 ± 0.7 and F <sub>0.3–7</sub> keV = 3.5 <sub>-</sub> <sup>+</sup> <sub>1.0</sub> <sup>1.2</sup> ´ 10 <sup>-14</sup> erg cm <sup>−2</sup> s <sup>−1</sup> . The X-ray photon index and the low X-ray-to-γ-ray flux ratio (i.e., <1%) are both consistent with that of many known BW pulsars. There is also a hint of an X-ray orbital modulation in the Chandra data, although the significance is very low (1.3σ). If the pulsar identity and the X-ray modulation are confirmed, it would be the fifth BW millisecond pulsar binary that showed an orbitally modulated emission in X-rays.

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