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arxiv: 1608.06662 · v1 · pith:UEL7FVPOnew · submitted 2016-08-23 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

Search for gamma-ray emission from AE Aquarii with seven years of FERMI-LAT observations

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AE Aquarii (AE Aqr) is a cataclysmic binary hosting one of the fastest rotating (P$_{\rm spin}$ = 33.08 s) white dwarfs known. Based on seven years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 data, we report on a deep search for gamma-ray emission from AE Aqr. Using X-ray observations from ASCA, XMM-Newton, Chandra, Swift, Suzaku, and NuSTAR, spanning 20 years, we substantially extend and improve the spin ephemeris of AE Aqr. Using this ephemeris, we searched for gamma-ray pulsations at the spin period of the white dwarf. No gamma-ray pulsations were detected above 3 $\sigma$ significance. Neither phase-averaged gamma-ray emission nor gamma-ray variability of AE Aquarii is detected by Fermi-LAT. We impose the most restrictive upper limit to the gamma-ray flux from AE Aqr to date: $1.3\times 10^{-12}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in the 100 MeV-300 GeV energy range, providing constraints on models.

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