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从X射线瞬变Aql X-1发现高千赫QPO

Discovery of the upper kilo-Hz QPO from the X-ray transient Aql X-1

Didier Barret, Martin Boutelier, M. Coleman Miller

摘要:

我们报告了1997年至2007年期间使用Rossi X射线定时探测器从中子星X射线瞬变天鹰座X-1(Aql X-1)探测到的千赫兹(>~600 Hz)准周期振荡(kHz QPO)的全面分析。在kHz QPO源中,Aql X-1是特殊的,因为到目前为止仅报告了一个kHz QPO,而在大多数源中,通常检测到两个kHz QPO(较低和较高kHz QPO)。因此,迄今为止报告的QPO的识别是模糊的,尽管有人提出它们可能是较低的QPO。在以前的工作后续,我们确认识别的QPO以前报告为较低的QPO,因为他们的高品质因数和品质因数与频率的依赖性,这是类似于在其他来源中观察到的。结合包含较低QPO的所有数据段,我们首次检测到较高kHz QPO。在其他来源中,中子星的自旋频率大于400 Hz(在Aql X-1中为550.25 Hz),两个kHz QPO之间的频率差接近自旋频率的一半。基于这一结果,我们重新研究了中子星自旋和kHz QPO频率之间的联系,以表明,一个模型,其中的分离的较低和较高的QPO与中子星自旋频率仍然是一样好的任何简单的模型。

英文摘要:

We report on a comprehensive analysis of the kilo-Hz (>~600 Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) detected from the neutron star X-ray transient Aquila X-1 (Aql X-1) with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, between 1997 and 2007. Among kHz QPO sources, Aql X-1 is peculiar because so far only one kHz QPO has been reported, whereas in most sources, two kHz QPOs are usually detected (a lower and an upper kHz QPO). The identification of the QPOs reported so far has therefore been ambiguous, although it has been proposed that they were likely to be the lower QPO. Following up on previous work, we confirm the identification of the QPOs previously reported as lower QPOs, because of their high quality factors and the quality factor versus frequency dependency, which are similar to those observed in other sources. Combining all segments of data containing a lower QPO, we detect for the first time an upper kHz QPO. As in other sources for which the neutron star spin frequency is larger than 400 Hz (550.25 Hz in Aql X-1), the frequency difference between the two kHz QPOs is close to half the spin frequency. Based on this result, we re-examine the link between the neutron star spin and the frequency of the kHz QPOs, to show that a model in which the separation of the lower and upper QPOs relates to the neutron star spin frequency is still as good as any comparably simple model.

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