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作为SAX J1808中脉冲轮廓可变性起源的变化的盘-磁层耦合。4 -3658

Varying disc-magnetosphere coupling as the origin of pulse profile variability in SAX J1808.4-3658

Jari J. E. Kajava, Askar Ibragimov, Marja Annala, Alessandro Patruno, Juri Poutanen

摘要:

吸积毫秒双星的脉冲轮廓显示出显着的变化,特别是在低吸积率。另一方面,它们的X射线光谱非常相似,在爆发过程中没有太大的变化。我们首次发现,在2008年爆发的SAXJ1808.4 -3658一个主要的脉冲轮廓的变化是伴随着一个戏剧性的变化,光盘光度几乎恒定的总光度。我们认为这种现象与中子星磁场和吸积盘之间耦合的变化有关。脉冲星磁层大小的变化可以影响吸积幕的几何形状,并影响热点的形状和大小。使用这个物理图像,我们开发了一个自洽的模型,成功地描述了同时的脉冲轮廓的变化,以及光谱过渡。我们的发现对于验证磁化中子星吸积理论、更好地理解吸积几何以及盘-磁层耦合物理具有重要意义。热点大小的变化会导致脉冲轮廓的变化,这一发现对于确定中子星的质量和半径具有深远的意义。

英文摘要:

Accreting millisecond pulsars show significant variability of their pulse profiles, especially at low accretion rates. On the other hand, their X-ray spectra are remarkably similar with not much variability over the course of the outbursts. For the first time, we have discovered that during the 2008 outburst of SAX J1808.4-3658 a major pulse profile change was accompanied by a dramatic variation of the disc luminosity at almost constant total luminosity. We argue that this phenomenon is related to a change in the coupling between the neutron star magnetic field and the accretion disc. The varying size of the pulsar magnetosphere can influence the accretion curtain geometry and affect the shape and the size of the hotspots. Using this physical picture, we develop a self-consistent model that successfully describes simultaneously the pulse profile variation as well as the spectral transition. Our findings are particularly important for testing the theories of accretion onto magnetized neutron stars, better understanding of the accretion geometry as well as the physics of disc-magnetosphere coupling. The identification that varying hotspot size can lead to pulse profile changes has profound implications for determination of the neutron star masses and radii.

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