* Astronomy

Title: XMM-Newton confirmation of a new intermediate polar: XMMU J185330.7-012815
Authors: C. Y. Hui (1), K. Sriram (2), C.-S. Choi (2) ((1) Chungnam National University, (2) Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)

We report the results from a detailed spectro-imaging and temporal analysis of an archival XMM-Newton observation of a new intermediate polar XMMU J185330.7-012815. Its X-ray spectrum can be well-described by a multi-temperature thermal plasma model with the K-lines of heavy elements clearly detected. Possible counterparts of XMMU J185330.7-012815 have been identified in optical and UV bands. The low value of the inferred X-ray-to-UV and X-ray-to-optical flux ratios help to safely rule out the possibility as an isolated neutron star. We confirm the X-ray periodicity of ~238 s, but different from the previous preliminary result, we do not find any convincing evidence of phase-shift in this observation. We further investigate its properties through an energy-resolved temporal analysis and find the pulsed fraction monotonically increases with energy.

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