May 15 – 17, 2026
College of Hakka Studies at NYCU, Zhubei, Hsinchu County 國立陽明交通大學客家學院(竹北六家校區)
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Pulsation Detection and Refinement of Spin and Orbital Parameters for the AMXP IGR J17062–6143 Using NICER 2021 Observations

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College of Hakka Studies at NYCU, Zhubei, Hsinchu County 國立陽明交通大學客家學院(竹北六家校區)

College of Hakka Studies at NYCU, Zhubei, Hsinchu County 國立陽明交通大學客家學院(竹北六家校區)

No. 1, Sec. 1, Liujia 5th Rd., Zhubei City, Hsinchu County 302, Taiwan 30272新竹縣竹北市六家五路一段1號
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Yizhi Hong

Description

The accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) IGR J17062–6143 was discovered in 2006 by INTEGRAL, with subsequent RXTE observations detecting a pulsation frequency of 163.65 Hz. To further characterize its long-term timing behavior, NICER conducted an extensive monitoring campaign comprising several observations between 2017 and 2022. This study focuses specifically on the analysis of high-resolution data obtained in 2021, implementing an iterative timing analysis to refine the source's spin and orbital parameters. By extrapolating orbital parameters from observation reports spanning 2017 to 2020, we compensated for orbital modulation, enabling a high-sensitivity periodic search via the Z-test. The resulting power spectrum reveals a prominent peak at 163.656111031(61) Hz. Following this detection, an iterative process was applied to further refine the spin and orbital parameters. These values will be adopted as initial parameters for a pulse arrival time delay analysis, ultimately yielding more precise spin and orbital parameter solutions for the system.

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YI CHOU (Graduate Institute of Astronomy, NCU)

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