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Search for Magnetars in the Galaxy M31 as Periodic X-ray Sources Based on XMM-Newton Data

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Several years ago a series of powerful millisecond radio bursts with close dispersion measures was detected toward the galaxy M31. Taking the hypothesis about the possible association of these radio bursts with a magnetar in M31 as a starting point, we have searched for periodic X-ray signal sources using data from the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope. As a result of our data analysis, we have identified a signal from the already known periodic X-ray source 3XMM J004301.4+413017, an accreting pulsar in a binary system. However, we have failed to detect new candidates. In particular, we have revealed no object that could be associated with the hypothetical magnetar responsible for the observed radio bursts that could have a luminosity \(L_{X}>10^{36}\) erg s\({}^{-1}\).

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  1. See the online catalogues frbcat.org and chime-frb.ca/repeaters.

  2. Fainter outbursts from another Galactic magnetar, XTE1810-197, were detected slightly earlier (Maan et al. 2019; Pearlman et al. 2020). However, to all appearances, these events were not associated in any way with FRBs.

  3. A list of the papers in which the results of such an analysis are presented is accessible online at http://www.extras-fp7.eu/index.php/scientific-community/publications/all-papers.

  4. https://xmm-tools.cosmos.esa.int/external/xmm_user_support/documentation/uhb/epicsens.html.

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Funding

This study was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation within the Funding Program of Large Scientific Projects of the Science National Project (grant no. 075-15-2020-778). M.S. Pshirkov thanks the ‘‘BAZIS’’ Foundation for the Development of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics for its support.

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  1. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, pr. Universitetskii 13, 119234, Moscow, Russia

    M. S. Pshirkov, S. B. Popov & I. Yu. Zolotukhin

  2. Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 60-letiya Oktyabrya 7a, 117312, Moscow, Russia

    M. S. Pshirkov

  3. Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory, Astrospace Center, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow oblast, Russia

    M. S. Pshirkov

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Pshirkov, M.S., Popov, S.B. & Zolotukhin, I.Y. Search for Magnetars in the Galaxy M31 as Periodic X-ray Sources Based on XMM-Newton Data. Astron. Lett. 47, 12–18 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773721010072

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