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利用四颗高质量X射线脉冲双星的轨道相位谱研究伴星的星风

Orbital Phase Spectroscopy of four High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsars to Study the Stellar Wind of the Companion

Sachindra Naik, Uddipan Mukherjee, Biswajit Paul, C. S. Choi

摘要:

我们的工作主要集中在四颗高质量X射线脉冲双星(HMXBPs)4U 1538-52、GX 301-2、OAO 1657-415和Vela X-1的轨道相位相关光谱。我们在此报告用Rossi X射线定时探测器和BeppoSAX卫星观测到的上述椭圆轨道上的HMXBPs在双星轨道上的吸收柱密度和磁力线通量以及其他光谱参数变化的测量结果。一个球对称的风廓线被用来作为一个模型,比较所观察到的柱密度变化。在这四颗恒星中,只有4U 1538-52的恒星风模型与观测结果有合理的印证,而在其余三颗恒星中,恒星风似乎是clusified的,光滑对称的恒星风模型似乎不足以解释这些数据。此外,在GX 301-2中,既没有确认盘的存在,也没有确认来自伴星的气流。此外,在OAO 1657-415和船帆座X-1的情况下获得的光谱结果或多或少与GX 301-2相似。

英文摘要:

Our work focuses on a comprehensive orbital phase dependent spectroscopy of the four High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsars (HMXBPs) 4U 1538-52, GX 301-2, OAO 1657-415 & Vela X-1. We hereby report the measurements of the variation of the absorption column density and iron-line flux along with other spectral parameters over the binary orbit for the above-mentioned HMXBPs in elliptical orbits, as observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the BeppoSAX satellites. A spherically symmetric wind profile was used as a model to compare the observed column density variations. Out of the four pulsars, only in 4U 1538-52, we find the model having a reasonable corroboration with the observations, whereas in the remaining three the stellar wind seems to be clumpy and a smooth symmetric stellar wind model appears to be quite inadequate in explaining the data. Moreover, in GX 301-2, neither the presence of a disk nor a gas stream from the companion was validated. Furthermore, the spectral results obtained in the case of OAO 1657-415 & Vela X-1 were more or less similar to that of GX 301-2.

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