Joint XMM–Newton and NuSTAR observations of Type I X-ray bursts from the dipping low-mass x-ray binary 4U 1323−62

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Publication date October 2026
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Article number stag1727
Volume | Issue number 552 | 2
Number of pages 17
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
In this study, we report partly simultaneous XMM–Newton and NuSTAR observations of the bursting, dipping low mass X-ray binary, 4U 1323−62 obtained in 2024. 4U 1323−62 is one of the well-known persistent bursters, with bursts occurring roughly every three hours. It is also one of the few sources for which the orbital period is known, and shows dips in X-rays. In this paper, we report the detection of 12 unique bursts with XMM–Newton and NuSTAR, 6 of them observed jointly. We detected two double burst events, one with the NuSTAR and another one observed with both missions. During our observations we detected 10 X-ray dips with a periodicity of 2.942 h, in line with previous measurements. We also present the results of the time resolved X-ray spectral analysis of the bursts and show the limits on the cooling of the corona heated by the burst emission. We also found a 0.898 ± 0.017 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) during the non-bursting and non-dipping times confirming previous detections.
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Language English
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1727 (Final published version)
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