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光学系统中X射线双星的通量相关均方根变化

The flux-dependent rms variability of X-ray binaries in the optical

Poshak Gandhi

摘要:

在致密吸积源的X射线观测中,绝对均方根变率与通量之间存在线性关系。这种关系表明,X射线光变曲线是非线性的,并由对数正态分布的通量。本文首次研究了X射线双星的光学均方根与通量的关系。本文研究了三个双星在X射线低/硬态下的快速定时数据。这些是XTE J1118+480,GX 339-4和SWIFT J1753.5-0127 -都显示非周期性(未再处理)光学波动分量。发现在所有源中,光学均方根振幅随通量增加。对于大多数研究的频率范围,线性拟合导致沿通量轴的正偏移。X射线和光学关系斜率跟踪源分数变化幅度。这在GX 339-4的情况下尤其明显,它在三个目标中具有最大的光学变化。在所有情况下,非线性支持的事实,即流量分布的光学光变曲线更好地描述了一个对数正态函数比一个简单的高斯。在具有较低光学变化幅度的两个源的关系中,发现线性周围的显著散射,尽管观测偏差可能对此有很大贡献。吸积模型的影响进行了讨论,并强调需要长期良好的采样光学光变曲线。

英文摘要:

A linear relation between absolute rms variability and flux in X-ray observations of compact accreting sources has recently been identified. Such a relation suggests that X-ray lightcurves are non-linear and composed of a lognormal distribution of fluxes. Here, a first investigation of the optical rms vs. flux behavior in X-ray binaries is presented. Fast timing data on three binaries in the X-ray low/hard state are examined. These are XTE J1118+480, GX 339-4 and SWIFT J1753.5-0127 -- all show aperiodic (non-reprocessed) optical fluctuation components. Optical rms amplitude is found to increase with flux in all sources. A linear fit results in a positive offset along the flux axis, for most frequency ranges investigated. The X-ray and optical relation slopes track the source fractional variability amplitudes. This is especially clear in the case of GX 339-4, which has the largest optical variance of the three targets. Non-linearity is supported in all cases by the fact that flux distributions of the optical lightcurves are better described with a lognormal function than a simple gaussian. Significant scatter around linearity is found in the relation for the two sources with lower optical variability amplitude, though observational biases may well contribute to this. Implications for accretion models are discussed, and the need for long well-sampled optical lightcurves is emphasized.

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