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GX 5-1中Z轨道现象的模型和kHz QPO物理起源的观测证据

A model for the Z-track phenomenon in GX 5-1 and observational evidence for the physical origins of the kHz QPO

N. K. Jackson, M. J. Church, M. Balucinska-Church

摘要:

我们提出了基于高质量RXTE数据的GX 5-1 Z轨道周围的频谱和kHz QPO演化的综合调查结果。扩展的ADC发射模型提供了非常好的拟合光谱,结果清楚地指向一个模型的性质的Z轨道,在协议与以前的结果为类似的源GX 340+0。在这个模型中,在Z轨道的软顶点处,质量吸积率Mdot最小,中子星的温度最低;但随着源沿正常分支移动,康普顿化辐射的光度增加,表明Mdot增加,中子星变得更热。测得的中子星辐射通量f增加了10倍,成为超级爱丁顿,我们认为这破坏了内盘,从而形成喷流。在耀斑中,ADC的主要康普顿化辐射的光度是恒定的,而中子星的辐射增加,我们首次提出了耀斑是由中子星上不稳定的核燃烧组成的,并且在耀斑开始时测量的单位面积质量吸积率mdot与理论上燃烧变得不稳定的临界值吻合得很好. kHz QPO的频率与通量与Eddington值的比率:f/f_Edd之间存在显着的相关性,这表明了对较高频率QPO及其沿Z轨道变化的解释。众所周知,在这个频率下,盘中的开普勒轨道对应于距离中子星一定距离的位置;我们提出,振荡总是发生在盘的内边缘,随着测量到的辐射压力的增加,内边缘在上法线和水平分支上径向向外移动。

英文摘要:

We present results of a combined investigation of the spectral and kHz QPO evolution around the Z-track in GX 5-1 based on high-quality RXTE data. The Extended ADC emission model provides very good fits to the spectra, the results pointing clearly to a model for the nature of the Z-track, in agreement with previous results for the similar source GX 340+0. In this model, at the soft apex of the Z-track, the mass accretion rate Mdot is minimum and the neutron star has its lowest temperature; but as the source moves along the normal branch, the luminosity of the Comptonized emission increases, indicating that Mdot increases and the neutron star gets hotter. The measured flux f of the neutron star emission increases by a factor of ten becoming super-Eddington, and we propose that this disrupts the inner disk so forming jets. In flaring, the luminosity of the dominant Comptonized emission from the ADC is constant, while the neutron star emission increases, and we propose for the first time that flaring consists of unstable nuclear burning on the neutron star, and the measured mass accretion rate per unit area mdot at the onset of flaring agrees well with the theoretical critical value at which burning becomes unstable. There is a striking correlation between the frequencies of the kHz QPO and the ratio of the flux to the Eddington value: f/f_Edd, suggesting an explanation of the higher frequency QPO and of its variation along the Z-track. It is well known that a Keplerian orbit in the disk at this frequency corresponds to a position some distance from the neutron star; we propose that the oscillation always occurs at the inner disk edge, which moves radially outwards on the upper normal and horizontal branches as the measured increasing radiation pressure increasingly disrupts the inner disk.

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