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X射线爆发中子星光谱的吸收特征

Absorption features in the spectra of X-ray bursting neutron stars

Thomas Rauch, Valery Suleimanov, Klaus Werner

摘要:

Cottam等人在EXO 0748 -676的X射线爆发中子星的XMM-牛顿谱中发现了光球吸收线,这使我们能够从测量的引力红移中约束中子星的质量半径比。对于M=1.4-1.8Msun的合理质量范围,这些作者导出了半径R=9- 12 km。有人认为吸收特征来自于类H和类He铁的引力红移(z=0.35)n=2-3线。我们调查这种识别和寻找替代品。我们计算LTE和非LTE中子星模型大气和详细的合成光谱的有效温度(1 - 20 MK的有效温度)和不同的化学成分。我们无法确认EXO 0748 -676的X射线光谱中的吸收特征为n=2-3条H-和He-样铁(Fe XXVI和Fe XXV)线。这些是我们的模型预测的在任何有效温度下都太弱的从属线。更可能的是,最强的特征来自Fe XXIV中的n=2-3共振跃迁,红移z=0.24。采用这个值会产生一个更大的中子星半径,即在质量范围M=1.4- 1.8 Msun时,R=12- 15 km,有利于一个刚性的状态方程,排除了基于奇异物质的质量-半径关系。结合Oezel和合作者工作中估计的恒星半径R> 12.5 km,z=0.24的值提供了一个最小的中子星质量M> 1.48 Msun,而不是假设z=0.35时M> 1.9 Msun。

英文摘要:

The discovery of photospheric absorption lines in XMM-Newton spectra of the X-ray bursting neutron star in EXO0748-676 by Cottam and collaborators allows us to constrain the neutron star mass-radius ratio from the measured gravitational redshift. A radius of R=9-12km for a plausible mass range of M=1.4-1.8Msun was derived by these authors. It has been claimed that the absorption features stem from gravitationally redshifted (z=0.35) n=2-3 lines of H- and He-like iron. We investigate this identification and search for alternatives. We compute LTE and non-LTE neutron-star model atmospheres and detailed synthetic spectra for a wide range of effective temperatures (effective temperatures of 1 - 20MK) and different chemical compositions. We are unable to confirm the identification of the absorption features in the X-ray spectrum of EXO0748-676 as n=2-3 lines of H- and He-like iron (Fe XXVI and Fe XXV). These are subordinate lines that are predicted by our models to be too weak at any effective temperature. It is more likely that the strongest feature is from the n=2-3 resonance transition in Fe XXIV with a redshift of z=0.24. Adopting this value yields a larger neutron star radius, namely R=12-15km for the mass range M=1.4-1.8Msun, favoring a stiff equation-of-state and excluding mass-radius relations based on exotic matter. Combined with an estimate of the stellar radius R>12.5km from the work of Oezel and collaborators, the z=0.24 value provides a minimum neutron-star mass of M>1.48Msun, instead of M>1.9Msun, when assuming z=0.35.

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