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辐照对低质量X射线双星的长期演化重要吗?

Is irradiation important for the secular evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries?

H. Ritter

摘要:

低质量X射线双星(LMXBs)中吸积产生的X射线辐照不仅可以改变LMXBs的光学外观,还可以改变它们的爆发性质,甚至可能改变它们的长期演化。在一个短暂的LMXB的吸积盘的外部部分的爆发过程中的照射导致爆发属性的急剧变化。就这些系统的长期演化而言,这些变化可能导致系统的质量和角动量损失增加,最重要的是,在中子星LMXB中,转移物质的利用效率要低得多,从而使中子星旋转成ms脉冲星。辐射的施主星可以不稳定的质量转移,并导致辐射驱动的质量转移周期,即长期的演变,其中辐射被忽略的演变截然不同。有人认为,辐射驱动的传质循环不能发生在系统中,这是短暂的,因为光盘的不稳定性,即特别是在长周期LMXB与一个巨大的捐助者。它还表明,无论是照射盘或施主星,单独直接照射是不够的。相反,通过散射吸积光度的间接照射必须在瞬时LMXBs中发挥重要作用,并且事实上,通过照射供体星来破坏短周期系统中的质量传递的稳定性是必要的。是否以及在何种程度上辐照LMXB确实改变其长期演化取决于一些未解决的问题,简要讨论了在本文的最后。

英文摘要:

It is argued that irradiation in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) caused by accretion-generated X-rays can not only change the optical appearance of LMXBs but also their outburst properties and possibly also their long-term evolution. Irradiation during an outburst of the outer parts of the accretion disc in a transient LMXB leads to drastic changes in the outburst properties. As far as the secular evolution of such systems is concerned, these changes can result in enhanced loss of mass and angular momentum from the system and, most important, in neutron star LMXBs in a much less efficient use of the transferred matter to spin up the neutron star to a ms-pulsar. Irradiation of the donor star can destabilize mass transfer and lead to irradiation-driven mass transfer cycles, i.e. to a secular evolution which differs drastically from an evolution in which irradiation is ignored. It is argued that irradiation-driven mass transfer cycles cannot occur in systems which are transient because of disc instabilities, i.e. in particular in long-period LMXBs with a giant donor. It is furthermore shown that for irradiating either the disc or the donor star, direct irradiation alone is insufficient. Rather, indirect irradiation via scattered accretion luminosity must play an important role in transient LMXBs and is, in fact, necessary to destabilize mass transfer in short-period systems by irradiating the donor star. Whether and to what extent irradiation in LMXBs does change their secular evolution depends on a number of unsolved problems which are briefly discussed at the end of this article.

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