Modelling the optical/UV emission of Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017–2018 giant outburst
J. Alfonso-Garzon*,
J. van den Eijnden,
N.P. Kuin,
F. Fürst,
A. Rouco-Escorial,
J. Fabregat,
P. Reig,
J.M. Mas-Hesse,
P. Jenke,
C. Malacaria and
C. Wilson-Hodge*: corresponding author
Published on:
April 17, 2024
Abstract
The Be X-ray binary Swift J0243.6+6124 underwent a super-Eddington giant outburst that lasted from September 2017 to February 2018. The reached luminosity was so high, that it became the first Ultraluminous X-ray pulsar (ULXP) in the Galaxy. Simultaneously to this X-ray outburst, optical and UV outbursts were observed. In this work, we try to explain the origin of this emission. We built a physical modelling considering the heating of the surface of the Be star, the emission from the viscously heated accretion disk, and the irradiation of this accretion disk by the central X-ray source. Using this model, we fit the Spectral Energy Distributions built with the available photometric measurements obtained each day along the outburst.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.447.0046
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