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软X射线瞬态天鹰座X-1的爆发形态

Outburst Morphology in the Soft X-ray Transient Aquila X-1

Dipankar Maitra, Charles D. Bailyn

摘要:

我们目前的光学和近红外(OIR)观测的主要爆发的中子星软X射线瞬态双星系统天鹰座X-1,从1998年夏季至2007年秋季。在所观察到的时间跨度上的源的主要爆发似乎表现出两种主要类型的光变曲线形态,(a)在许多软X射线瞬变中看到的经典快速上升和指数衰减(FRED)型爆发和(b)低强度状态(LIS),其中光学与软X射线通量比远高于在FRED期间看到的。因此,即使在天鹰座X-1的硬态中,光学(R波段)和软X射线(1.5-12 keV,如RXTE机载ASM所见)通量之间也没有单一的相关性,这表明LISs和FREDs具有根本不同的吸积流特性。在主要的LIS和FRED爆发的OIR通量的时间演化是兼容的辐射外吸积盘的热加热。在OIR中没有看到X射线光谱状态变化或任何致密喷流的特征,这表明OIR色星等图(CMD)可以用作诊断工具,以分离来自X射线双星的热辐射和非热辐射,其中系统的轨道和物理参数是合理已知的。我们认为,LIS可能是由于截断的内盘在一个相对较高的质量吸积状态,可能是由于物质被转移到一个弱流出。

英文摘要:

We present optical and near-IR (OIR) observations of the major outbursts of the neutron star soft X-ray transient binary system Aquila X-1, from summer 1998 -- fall 2007. The major outbursts of the source over the observed timespan seem to exhibit two main types of light curve morphologies, (a) the classical Fast-Rise and Exponential-Decay (FRED) type outburst seen in many soft X-ray transients and (b) the Low-Intensity State (LIS) where the optical-to-soft-X-ray flux ratio is much higher than that seen during a FRED. Thus there is no single correlation between the optical (R-band) and soft X-ray (1.5-12 keV, as seen by the ASM onboard RXTE) fluxes even within the hard state for Aquila X-1, suggesting that LISs and FREDs have fundamentally different accretion flow properties. Time evolution of the OIR fluxes during the major LIS and FRED outbursts is compatible with thermal heating of the irradiated outer accretion disk. No signature of X-ray spectral state changes or any compact jet are seen in the OIR, showing that the OIR color-magnitude diagram (CMD) can be used as a diagnostic tool to separate thermal and non-thermal radiation from X-ray binaries where orbital and physical parameters of the system are reasonably well known. We suggest that the LIS may be caused by truncation of the inner disk in a relatively high mass accretion state, possibly due to matter being diverted into a weak outflow.

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