Low luminosity observation of BeXRB source IGR J21347+4737

TL;DR

This study presents detailed timing and spectral analysis of the BeXRB IGR J21347+4737 using NuSTAR and Swift/XRT data, revealing pulsation, spectral characteristics, and temporal evolution over 7 years.

Contribution

First detailed temporal and spectral analysis of IGR J21347+4737 with NuSTAR and Swift/XRT, including pulsation detection and phase-resolved spectroscopy.

Findings

Detected coherent pulsation at 322.738 s.

Observed pulsar spin-down over 7 years.

No cyclotron or Fe emission lines detected.

Abstract

In this paper, we report the results of the detailed temporal and spectral studies of the BeXRB J21347+4737 based on the data from the NuSTAR and \textit{SWIFT/XRT} in a wide energy range of 0.5-50 keV. Coherent pulsation with a period of 322.738$\;\pm\;0.018$ s was found in the light curve, implying, the source pulsation has spun down by 0.341 s $yr^{-1}$ when compared with the coherent pulsation estimated from XMM Newton more than 7 years ago. The pulse profile of the source demonstrates energy dependence and has evolved with time. The pulse fraction of the source observed by NuSTAR initially decreases with energy upto $\sim$15 keV, followed by a non-monotonic increasing trend above 15 keV. The source spectrum can be well approximated by an absorbed power-law model with modification by an exponential cutoff at high energies. The absorbed flux of the source is $4\times10^{-11}\;erg\;cm^{-2}\;s^{-1}$ and its corresponding luminosity is $3.5\times10^{35}\;erg\;s^{-1}$. The study of pulse-phase resolved spectroscopy shows a strong variation of spectral parameters on the phase. No additional emission or absorption features in the form of Fe line or Cyclotron lines were observed both in the phase-averaged and phase-resolved spectra of IGR J21347+4737.