New NuSTAR and VERITAS spectra of HESS J0632+057 are well fitted by a pulsar-wind shock model, yielding a degenerate constraint with wind magnetization around 0.003 to 0.03 at the shock.
A New TeV Binary: The Discovery of an Orbital Period in HESS J0632+057
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HESS J0632+057 is a variable, point-like source of Very High Energy ($>100$ GeV) gamma-rays located in the Galactic plane. It is positionally coincident with a Be star, it is a variable radio and X-ray source, has a hard X-ray spectrum, and has low radio flux. These properties suggest that the object may be a member of the rare class of TeV/X-ray binary systems. The definitive confirmation of this would be the detection of a periodic orbital modulation of the flux at any wavelength. We have obtained {\it Swift} X-ray telescope observations of the source from MJD 54857 to 55647 (Jan. 2009 - Mar. 2011) to test the hypothesis that HESS J0632+057 is an X-ray/TeV binary. We show that these data exhibit flux modulation with a period of $321 \pm 5$ days and we evaluate the significance of this period by calculating the null hypothesis probability, allowing for stochastic flaring. This periodicity establishes the binary nature of HESS J0632+057.
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Combined VERITAS and NuSTAR observations of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057
New NuSTAR and VERITAS spectra of HESS J0632+057 are well fitted by a pulsar-wind shock model, yielding a degenerate constraint with wind magnetization around 0.003 to 0.03 at the shock.