A luminous gamma-ray binary in the large magellanic cloud

Corbet, R. H.  D.; Chomiuk, L.; Coe, M. J.; Coley, J. B.; Dubus, G.; Edwards, P. G.; Martin, P.; McBride, V. A.; Stevens, J.; Strader, J.; Townsend, L. J.; Udalski, A.

doi:10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/105

Title: A luminous gamma-ray binary in the large magellanic cloud

Journal Article · Tue Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/105· OSTI ID:1355709

Corbet, R. H. D. ^[1];

^[2]; Coe, M. J. ^[3];

^[4];

^[5]; Edwards, P. G. ^[6]; Martin, P. ^[7]; McBride, V. A. ^[8]; Stevens, J. ^[6];

^[2]; Townsend, L. J. ^[9]; Udalski, A. ^[10]

Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States); Maryland Inst. College of Art, Baltimore, MD (United States)
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
Univ. of Grenoble (France). Inst. of Planetology nad Astrophysics
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Astronomy and Space Science, New South Wales (Australia)
Univ. of Toulouse (France). Inst. of Astrophysical Research and Planetology
Univ. of Cape Town (South Africa). Dept. of Astronomy; South African Astronomical Observatory (South Africa)
Univ. of Cape Town (South Africa). Dept. of Astronomy
Warsaw Univ. Observatory (Poland)

Gamma-ray binaries consist of a neutron star or a black hole interacting with a normal star to produce gamma-ray emission that dominates the radiative output of the system. Previously, only a handful of such systems have been discovered, all within our Galaxy. We report the discovery of a luminous gamma-ray binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud, found with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), from a search for periodic modulation in all sources in the third Fermi LAT catalog. This is the first such system to be found outside the Milky Way. Furthermore, the system has an orbital period of 10.3 days, and is associated with a massive O5III star located in the supernova remnant DEM L241, previously identified as the candidate high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) CXOU J053600.0–673507. X-ray and radio emission are also modulated on the 10.3 day period, but are in anti-phase with the gamma-ray modulation. Optical radial velocity measurements suggest that the system contains a neutron star. The source is significantly more luminous than similar sources in the Milky Way, at radio, optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray wavelengths. The detection of this extra-galactic system, but no new Galactic systems, raises the possibility that the predicted number of gamma-ray binaries in our Galaxy has been overestimated, and that HMXBs may be born containing relatively slowly rotating neutron stars.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1355709

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 829, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 37 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (48)

FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE THIRD SOURCE CATALOG Acero, F.; Ackermann, M.; Ajello, M. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol. 218, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/218/2/23	journal	June 2015
Deep view of the Large Magellanic Cloud with six years of Fermi -LAT observations Ackermann, M.; Albert, A.; Atwood, W. B. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 586 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526920	journal	January 2016
LONG-TERM TeV AND X-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF THE GAMMA-RAY BINARY HESS J0632+057 Aliu, E.; Archambault, S.; Aune, T. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 780, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/780/2/168	journal	December 2013
Broadband X-Ray Properties of the Gamma-Ray Binary 1fgl J1018.6–5856 An, Hongjun; Bellm, Eric; Bhalerao, Varun The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 806, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/806/2/166	journal	June 2015
THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION Atwood, W. B.; Abdo, A. A.; Ackermann, M. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 697, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/1071	journal	May 2009
Photoelectric absorption cross sections with variable abundances Balucinska-Church, Monika; McCammon, Dan The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 400 https://doi.org/10.1086/172032	journal	November 1992
A detailed observation of a LMC supernova remnant DEM L241 with XMM-Newton Bamba, A.; Ueno, M.; Nakajima, H. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 450, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054096	journal	April 2006
GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF THE MICROQUASARS CYGNUS X-1, CYGNUS X-3, GRS 1915+105, AND GX 339–4 WITH THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE Bodaghee, Arash; Tomsick, John A.; Pottschmidt, Katja The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 775, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/775/2/98	journal	September 2013
Multifrequency radio observations of SNR J0536-6735 (N 59B) with associated pulsar Bozzetto, L. M.; Filipovic, M. D.; Crawford, E. J. Serbian Astronomical Journal, Issue 184 https://doi.org/10.2298/SAJ1284069B	journal	January 2012
The Swift X-Ray Telescope Burrows, David N.; Hill, J. E.; Nousek, J. A. Space Science Reviews, Vol. 120, Issue 3-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-005-5097-2	journal	October 2005
Gamma-Ray Flare Activity from psr B1259–63 During 2014 Periastron Passage and Comparison to its 2010 Passage Caliandro, G. A.; Cheung, C. C.; Li, J. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 811, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/811/1/68	journal	September 2015
Parameter estimation in astronomy through application of the likelihood ratio Cash, W. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 228 https://doi.org/10.1086/156922	journal	March 1979
The Goodman spectrograph Clemens, J. Christopher; Crain, J. Adam; Anderson, Robert SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, SPIE Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.550069	conference	September 2004
Magnetic Fields of Accreting X‐Ray Pulsars with the Rossi X‐Ray Timing Explorer Coburn, W.; Heindl, W. A.; Rothschild, R. E. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 580, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1086/343033	journal	November 2002
A giant radio flare from Cygnus X-3 with associated γ-ray emission: The 2011 radio and γ-ray flare of Cyg X-3 Corbel, S.; Dubus, G.; Tomsick, J. A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 421, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20517.x	journal	February 2012
Further spectroscopy of LMC X-ray candidates Crampton, D.; Cowley, A. P.; Thompson, I. B. The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 90 https://doi.org/10.1086/113706	journal	January 1985
Clustering of Local Group Distances: Publication bias or Correlated Measurements? i. the Large Magellanic Cloud de Grijs, Richard; Wicker, James E.; Bono, Giuseppe The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 147, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/147/5/122	journal	April 2014
Gamma-ray binaries: pulsars in disguise? Dubus, G. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 456, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20054779	journal	September 2006
Gamma-ray binaries and related systems Dubus, Guillaume The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, Vol. 21, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00159-013-0064-5	journal	August 2013
Gamma-ray emission from binaries in context Dubus, Guillaume Comptes Rendus Physique, Vol. 16, Issue 6-7 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2015.08.014	journal	August 2015
Achieving Better Than 1 Minute Accuracy in the Heliocentric and Barycentric Julian Dates Eastman, Jason; Siverd, Robert; Gaudi, B. Scott Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 122, Issue 894 https://doi.org/10.1086/655938	journal	August 2010
An online repository of Swift /XRT light curves of $\vec \gamma$-ray bursts Evans, P. A.; Beardmore, A. P.; Page, K. L. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 469, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077530	journal	April 2007
Birth and Evolution of Isolated Radio Pulsars Faucher‐Giguere, Claude‐Andre; Kaspi, Victoria M. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 643, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1086/501516	journal	May 2006
Modulated High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Microquasar Cygnus X-3 Abdo, A. A.; Ackermann, M.; Ajello, M. Science, Vol. 326, Issue 5959 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1182174	journal	November 2009
Periodic Emission from the Gamma-Ray Binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 Science, Vol. 335, Issue 6065 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1213974	journal	January 2012
Long-Term Monitoring of the High-Energy γ-Ray Emission from ls i +61°303 and ls 5039 Hadasch, D.; Torres, D. F.; Tanaka, T. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 749, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/749/1/54	journal	March 2012
Readout modes and automated operation of the Swift X-ray Telescope Hill, Joanne E.; Burrows, David N.; Nousek, John A. Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, SPIE Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1117/12.505728	conference	February 2004
The Leiden/Argentine/Bonn (LAB) Survey of Galactic HI: Final data release of the combined LDS and IAR surveys with improved stray-radiation corrections Kalberla, P. M. W.; Burton, W. B.; Hartmann, Dap Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 440, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20041864	journal	September 2005
Improving Sensitivity to weak Pulsations with Photon Probability Weighting Kerr, M. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 732, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/732/1/38	journal	April 2011
Catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy (4th edition) Liu, Q. Z.; van Paradijs, J.; van den Heuvel, E. P. J. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 455, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20064987	journal	August 2006
A catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC (Fourth edition) Liu, Q. Z.; van Paradijs, J.; van den Heuvel, E. P. J. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 469, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20077303	journal	April 2007
The binary nature of PSR J2032+4127 Lyne, A. G.; Stappers, B. W.; Keith, M. J. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 451, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv236	journal	May 2015
A New Cepheid Distance to the Maser‐Host Galaxy NGC 4258 and Its Implications for the Hubble Constant Macri, L. M.; Stanek, K. Z.; Bersier, D. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 652, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1086/508530	journal	December 2006
Physical properties of the gamma-ray binary LS 5039 through low- and high-frequency radio observations Marcote, B.; Ribo, M.; Paredes, J. M. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 451, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv940	journal	May 2015
The microphysics of collisionless shock waves Marcowith, A.; Bret, A.; Bykov, A. Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 79, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1088/0034-4885/79/4/046901	journal	March 2016
A new calibration of stellar parameters of Galactic O stars Martins, F.; Schaerer, D.; Hillier, D. J. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 436, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20042386	journal	June 2005
The Likelihood Analysis of EGRET Data Mattox, J. R.; Bertsch, D. L.; Chiang, J. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 461 https://doi.org/10.1086/177068	journal	April 1996
Microquasars in our Galaxy Mirabel, I. F.; Rodríguez, L. F. Nature, Vol. 392, Issue 6677 https://doi.org/10.1038/33603	journal	April 1998
An eclipsing-binary distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud accurate to two per cent Pietrzyński, G.; Graczyk, D.; Gieren, W. Nature, Vol. 495, Issue 7439 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11878	journal	March 2013
The γ-ray binary LS 5039: mass and orbit constraints from MOST observations★: The mass and orbit of LS 5039 Sarty, Gordon E.; Szalai, Tamás; Kiss, László L. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 411, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17757.x	journal	November 2010
Studies in astronomical time series analysis. II - Statistical aspects of spectral analysis of unevenly spaced data Scargle, J. D. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 263 https://doi.org/10.1086/160554	journal	December 1982
Dem L241, a Supernova Remnant Containing a High-Mass X-Ray Binary Seward, F. D.; Charles, P. A.; Foster, D. L. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 759, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/759/2/123	journal	October 2012
Time-dependent Force-free Pulsar Magnetospheres: Axisymmetric and Oblique Rotators Spitkovsky, Anatoly The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 648, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1086/507518	journal	August 2006
OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF THE HIGH-MASS γ -RAY BINARY 1FGL J1018.6−5856: A PROBABLE NEUTRON STAR PRIMARY Strader, Jay; Chomiuk, Laura; Cheung, C. C. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 813, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/813/2/L26	journal	October 2015
Extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnus X-3 Tavani, M.; Bulgarelli, A.; Piano, G. Nature, Vol. 462, Issue 7273 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08578	journal	November 2009
New Understanding of Large Magellanic Cloud Structure, Dynamics, and Orbit from Carbon Star Kinematics van der Marel, Roeland P.; Alves, David R.; Hardy, Eduardo The Astronomical Journal, Vol. 124, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1086/343775	journal	November 2002
On the Absorption of X‐Rays in the Interstellar Medium Wilms, J.; Allen, A.; McCray, R. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 542, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1086/317016	journal	October 2000
The Australia Telescope Compact Array Broad-band Backend: description and first results★: The Compact Array Broad-band Backend (CABB) Wilson, Warwick E.; Ferris, R. H.; Axtens, P. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 416, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19054.x	journal	August 2011

Cited By (23)

Minimum Spanning Tree cluster analysis of the LMC region above 10 GeV: detection of the SNRs N 49B and N 63A Campana, R.; Massaro, E.; Bernieri, E. Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 363, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-018-3368-0	journal	June 2018
Modelling Jets, Tori and Flares in Pulsar Wind Nebulae Porth, Oliver; Buehler, Rolf; Olmi, Barbara Space Science Reviews, Vol. 207, Issue 1-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-017-0344-x	journal	March 2017
Phenomenology of gamma-ray emitting binaries Paredes, Josep Maria; Bordas, Pol Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, Vol. 30, Issue S1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-019-00769-w	journal	February 2019
Detection of variable VHE γ -ray emission from the extra-galactic γ -ray binary LMC P3 Abdalla, H.; Abramowski, A.; Aharonian, F. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 610 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732426	journal	February 2018
Refining the origins of the gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6–5856 Marcote, B.; Ribó, M.; Paredes, J. M. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 619 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832572	journal	November 2018
Overview of non-transient γ -ray binaries and prospects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Chernyakova, M.; Malyshev, D.; Paizis, A. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 631 https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936501	journal	November 2019
Modelling the interaction between relativistic and non-relativistic winds in binary pulsar systems: strong magnetization of the pulsar wind Bogovalov, S. V.; Khangulyan, D.; Koldoba, A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 490, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2815	journal	October 2019
Discovery of a very young high-mass X-ray binary associated with the supernova remnant MCSNR J0513-6724 in the LMC Maitra, C.; Haberl, F.; Filipović, M. D. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 490, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2831	journal	October 2019
The orbital parameters of the gamma-ray binary LMC P3† van Soelen, B.; Komin, N.; Kniazev, A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 484, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz289	journal	January 2019
GeV Detection of HESS J0632+057 Li, Jian; Torres, Diego F.; Cheng, K. -S. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 846, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7ff7	journal	September 2017
The Hour-timescale GeV Flares of PSR B1259–63 in 2017 Tam, P. H. T.; He, X. -B.; Pal, P. S. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 862, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacf00	journal	August 2018
A Luminous and Highly Variable Gamma-Ray Flare Following the 2017 Periastron of PSR B1259–63/LS 2883 Johnson, T. J.; Wood, K. S.; Kerr, M. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 863, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad185	journal	August 2018
Discovery of the Galactic High-mass Gamma-Ray Binary 4FGL J1405.1−6119 Corbet, R. H. D.; Chomiuk, L.; Coe, M. J. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 884, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3e32	journal	October 2019
Multiscale Time- and Frequency-domain Likelihood Analysis with Photon Weights Kerr, M. The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 885, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab459f	journal	November 2019
Discovery of the Galactic High-Mass Gamma-ray Binary 4FGL J1405.1-6119 Corbet, R. H. D.; Chomiuk, L.; Coe, M. J. Maryland Shared Open Access Repository https://doi.org/10.13016/m2yoip-ppsg	collection	January 2019
Modelling Jets, Tori and Flares in Pulsar Wind Nebulae Porth, Oliver; Buehler, Rolf; Olmi, Barbara Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg https://doi.org/10.3204/pubdb-2017-07734	text	January 2017
Detection of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the extra-galactic gamma-ray binary LMC P3 Collaboration, H. E. S. S.; Abdalla, H.; Abramowski, A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1801.06322	text	January 2018
A Luminous and Highly-variable Gamma-ray Flare Following the 2017 Periastron of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 Johnson, T. J.; Wood, K. S.; Kerr, M. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1805.03537	text	January 2018
Minimum Spanning Tree cluster analysis of the LMC region above 10 GeV: detection of the SNRs N 49B and N 63A Campana, R.; Massaro, E.; Bernieri, E. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1806.02040	text	January 2018
The orbital parameters of the gamma-ray binary LMC P3 van Soelen, B.; Komin, N.; Kniazev, A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1901.08911	text	January 2019
Phenomenology of gamma-ray emitting binaries Paredes, Josep Maria; Bordas, Pol arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1902.09898	preprint	January 2019
Overview of non-transient gamma-ray binaries and prospects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Chernyakova, M.; Malyshev, D.; Paizis, A. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1909.11018	text	January 2019
Modelling the interaction between relativistic and non-relativistic winds in binary pulsar systems: strong magnetization of the pulsar wind Bogovalov, Sergey V.; Khangulyan, Dmitry; Koldoba, Alexander V. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1911.07441	text	January 2019

Similar Records

A LUMINOUS GAMMA-RAY BINARY IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

Journal Article · Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Astrophysical Journal · OSTI ID:1355709

Corbet, R. H. D.; Chomiuk, L.; Strader, J.; +9 more

Periodic Emission from the Gamma-Ray Binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856

Journal Article · Thu Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2012 · Science · OSTI ID:1355709

Ackermann, M.

FEEDBACK FROM HIGH-MASS X-RAY BINARIES ON THE HIGH-REDSHIFT INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM: MODEL SPECTRA

Journal Article · Sun Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2013 · Astrophysical Journal · OSTI ID:1355709

Power, Chris; James, Gillian; Wynn, Graham; +1 more

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
gamma rays: stars
stars: individual (CXOU J053600.0-673507)
stars: neutron

Title: A luminous gamma-ray binary in the large magellanic cloud

Citation Formats

References (48)

Cited By (23)

Similar Records

Related Subjects