Bibcode
Kirichenko, A. Yu; Zharikov, S. V.; Karpova, A. V.; Fonseca, E.; Zyuzin, D. A.; Shibanov, Yu A.; López, E. A.; Gilfanov, M. R.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Geier, S.; Dong, F. A.; Good, D. C.; McKee, J. W.; Meyers, B. W.; Stairs, I. H.; McLaughlin, M. A.; Swiggum, J. K.
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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2024
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PSR J1641+8049 is a 2 ms black widow pulsar with the 2.2 h orbital period detected in the radio and γ-rays. We performed new phase-resolved multiband photometry of PSR J1641+8049 using the OSIRIS instrument at the Gran Telescopio Canarias. The obtained data were analysed together with the new radio-timing observations from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), the X-ray data from the Spectrum-RG/eROSITA all-sky survey, and all available optical photometric observations. An updated timing solution based on CHIME data is presented, which accounts for secular and periodic modulations in pulse dispersion. The system parameters obtained through the light-curve analysis, including the distance to the source 4.6-4.8 kpc and the orbital inclination 56-59 deg, are found to be consistent with previous studies. However, the optical flux of the source at the maximum brightness phase faded by a factor of ~2 as compared to previous observations. Nevertheless, the face of the J1641+8049 companion remains one of the most heated (8000-9500 K) by a pulsar among the known black widow pulsars. We also report a new estimation on the pulsar proper motion of ≈2 mas yr-1, which yields a spin-down luminosity of ≈4.87 × 1034 erg s-1 and a corresponding heating efficiency of the companion by the pulsar of 0.3-0.7. The pulsar was not detected in X-rays implying its X-ray-luminosity was $\lesssim$3 × 1031 erg s-1 at the date of observations.
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