Pulse Profiles of Swift J1626.6+5156

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2010-08-06
Baykal, Altan
Icdem, B.
In this paper, we analyzed pulse profiles of Swift J1626.6+5156 using the lightcurves from RXTE‐PCA observations between MJD 53724 (just after the outburst) and MJD 55113 and a Chandra‐ACIS dataset on MJD 54897 with a 20 ks exposure. We found that pulse profiles show morphological variations and pulsations do not cease even ∼1200 days after the outburst. Despite these variations, we did not find any significant variation in the pulsed fraction with decreasing X‐ray flux.

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A. Baykal and B. Icdem, “Pulse Profiles of Swift J1626.6+5156,” 2010, vol. 1379, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/41416.