NuSTAR Analysis of the 2024 Periastron Passage of TeV Binary PSR B1259-63
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NuSTAR Analysis of the 2024 Periastron Passage of TeV Binary PSR B1259-63
Oliver J. Roberts, Philip Kaaret, M. Lynne Saade, Chien-Ting Chen, Steven R. Ehlert, Ioannis Liodakis, Martin C. Weisskopf
AbstractPSR B1259-63 is a well studied TeV binary, with an energetic pulsar in orbit around a Be star. Using NuSTAR observations during the 2024 passage of the pulsar through the circumstellar disk, we find the spectrum to be the most energetic ($\Gamma$ = 1.5) around 27 days after periastron, during the first of two variable, short-term emission episodes of a contemporaneous GeV flare. We discuss the variability in the X-ray flux and the hardening of the spectrum with time, and in the context of previous observations and what that means for the competing energy loss and acceleration timescales.