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低质量X射线双星的分岔周期:磁制动和质量损失的影响

The bifurcation periods in low-mass X-ray binaries: the effect of magnetic braking and mass loss

Bo Ma, Xiang-Dong Li

摘要:

低质量X射线双星的分叉周期是初始轨道周期,它将收敛系统(随着轨道周期的减小而演化,直到施主星退化)和发散系统(随着轨道周期的增加而演化,直到施主星失去其包层,形成一个宽的分离双星)的形成分开。本文系统地计算了1.4 M_ \sun中子星和0.5- 2 M_ \sun施主星组成的双星系统的分岔周期,并考虑了不同的磁制动和质量损失机制。结果表明,饱和磁制动能显著降低分岔周期,而质量损失机制对分岔周期的影响很小.我们还发展了一种计算分岔周期的半解析方法,其结果与数值方法在前一阶的结果吻合得很好。

英文摘要:

The bifurcation period in low-mass X-ray binaries is the initial orbital pe- riod which separates the formation of converging systems (which evolve with decreasing orbital periods until the donor becomes degenerate) from the diverging systems (which evolve with increasing orbital periods until the donor star loses its envelope and a wide detached binary is formed). We calculate systematically the bifurcation periods of binary systems with a 1.4M_\sun neutron star and a 0.5-2M_\sun donor star, taking into account different kinds of magnetic braking and mass loss mechanisms. Our results show that the saturated magnetic braking can considerably decrease the values of bifurcation period compared to the traditional magnetic braking, while the influence of mass loss mechanisms on bifurcation periods is quite weak. We also develop a semi-analytical method to compute the bifurcation period, the result of which agrees well with the numerical method in the leading order.

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