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吸积中子星光变功率谱分量的物理解释

A physical interpretation of the variability power spectral components in accreting neutron stars

Adam Ingram, Chris Done

摘要:

我们提出了一个物理框架来解释从黑洞和中子星双星的宽带功率谱中看到的特征频率。我们使用截断盘/热的内部流动的几何形状,并假设热流是一般的湍流。热流中的每个半径都产生波动,我们进一步假定这些波动在粘性频率上是阻尼的。在半径上的积分给出了低频和高频中断之间的宽带连续噪声功率,低频和高频中断分别由热流的外边缘和内边缘处的粘性时标设定。整个热流的Lense-Thirring(垂直)旋进叠加在该连续功率上的低频QPO。我们在中子星系统(环礁)中看到的功率谱上测试该模型,因为这些具有关键优势,即(上)kHz QPO最有可能独立跟踪截断半径。这些表明,该模型可以给出一致的解,截断半径从20-8 Rg减小,而流动的内半径保持近似恒定在~4.5 Rg,即9.2 km。我们利用这种严格约束的几何结构,从整个热流从r_o到r_i的Lense-Thirring进动来预测低频QPO。最简单的假设是热流中的表面密度恒定,这与所观测到的QPO频率在25%以内相匹配,如果考虑到在光谱跃迁过程中,当流坍缩成光学厚的边界层时,表面密度应逐渐集中在中心,则这种匹配会更好。该模型的成功为利用宽带功率谱诊断强引力下的吸积流开辟了道路。

英文摘要:

We propose a physical framework for interpreting the characteristic frequencies seen in the broad band power spectra from black hole and neutron star binaries. We use the truncated disc/hot inner flow geometry, and assume that the hot flow is generically turbulent. Each radius in the hot flow produces fluctuations, and we further assume that these are damped on the viscous frequency. Integrating over radii gives broad band continuum noise power between low and high frequency breaks which are set by the viscous timescale at the outer and inner edge of the hot flow, respectively. Lense-Thirring (vertical) precession of the entire hot flow superimposes the low frequency QPO on this continuum power. We test this model on the power spectra seen in the neutron star systems (atolls) as these have the key advantage that the (upper) kHz QPO most likely independently tracks the truncation radius. These show that this model can give a consistent solution, with the truncation radius decreasing from 20-8 Rg while the inner radius of the flow remains approximately constant at ~4.5 Rg i.e. 9.2 km. We use this very constrained geometry to predict the low frequency QPO from Lense-Thirring precession of the entire hot flow from r_o to r_i. The simplest assumption of a constant surface density in the hot flow matches the observed QPO frequency to within 25 per cent. This match can be made even better by considering that the surface density should become increasingly centrally concentrated as the flow collapses into an optically thick boundary layer during the spectral transition. The success of the model opens up the way to use the broad band power spectra as a diagnostic of accretion flows in strong gravity.

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