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dc.contributor.authorParikh, A S
dc.contributor.authorDegenaar, N
dc.contributor.authorHernández Santisteban, J V
dc.contributor.authorWijnands, R
dc.contributor.authorPsaradaki, I
dc.contributor.authorCostantini, E
dc.contributor.authorModiano, D
dc.contributor.authorMiller, J M
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-24T17:30:04Z
dc.date.available2021-02-24T17:30:04Z
dc.date.issued2021-02
dc.identifier.citationParikh , A S , Degenaar , N , Hernández Santisteban , J V , Wijnands , R , Psaradaki , I , Costantini , E , Modiano , D & Miller , J M 2021 , ' UV and X-ray observations of the neutron star LMXB EXO 0748–676 in its quiescent state ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 501 , no. 1 , pp. 1453-1462 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3734en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 273020388
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 88d09855-a560-4108-a594-a7633eef57ea
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: 10.1093/mnras/staa3734
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85100332095
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-6733-5556/work/89628326
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000608474800109
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/21501
dc.descriptionFunding: AP, ND, and JHS are supported by a Vidi grant awarded to ND by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). IP and EC are supported by the Vidi grant 639.042.525. Further support for HST program GO-13108 was provided by NASA through a grant from the STScI.en
dc.description.abstractThe accretion behaviour in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) at low luminosities, especially at <1034 erg s−1, is not well known. This is an important regime to study to obtain a complete understanding of the accretion process in LMXBs, and to determine if systems that host neutron stars with accretion-heated crusts can be used probe the physics of dense matter (which requires their quiescent thermal emission to be uncontaminated by residual accretion). Here, we examine ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray data obtained when EXO 0748–676, a crust-cooling source, was in quiescence. Our Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy observations do not detect the far-UV continuum emission, but do reveal one strong emission line, C iv. The line is relatively broad (≳3500 km s−1), which could indicate that it results from an outflow such as a pulsar wind. By studying several epochs of X-ray and near-UV data obtained with XMM–Newton, we find no clear indication that the emission in the two wavebands is connected. Moreover, the luminosity ratio of LX/LUV ≳ 100 is much higher than that observed from neutron star LMXBs that exhibit low-level accretion in quiescence. Taken together, this suggests that the UV and X-ray emission of EXO 0748–676 may have different origins, and that thermal emission from crust-cooling of the neutron star, rather than ongoing low-level accretion, may be dominating the observed quiescent X-ray flux evolution of this LMXB.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3734.en
dc.subjectAccretionen
dc.subjectAccretion discsen
dc.subjectUltraviolet: generalen
dc.subjectX-rays: binariesen
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleUV and X-ray observations of the neutron star LMXB EXO 0748–676 in its quiescent stateen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3734
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3908291en
dc.identifier.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab188en


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