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低质量X射线双星4U 1608-522上香蕉态的RXTE观测

RXTE Observations of the Low-Mass X-Ray Binary 4U 1608-522 in Upper-Banana State

Hiromitsu Takahashi, Soki Sakurai, Kazuo Makishima

摘要:

为了研究弱磁化中子星的质量吸积物理,分析了1996-2004年在所谓的上香蕉状态下获得的环礁源4U 1608-522的95个存档RXTE数据集。同时,假设距离为3.6千秒差距,该天体的光度在3-30千电子伏之间,范围为<~ 10^35 - 4 x 10^37尔格·秒^-1。3-30千电子伏的PCA光谱,从每个数据集产生一个,成功地表示与软和硬组件的组合,其中的存在被揭示在一个独立于模型的方式,通过研究观测之间的光谱变化。软组分用多色盘模型表示,温度约为1.8 keV,是由光学厚度的标准吸积盘发射的。硬成分是黑体辐射,温度约为2.7 keV,被认为是从中子星表面发出的。随着总光度的增加,观察到的黑体光度的比率的磁盘组件的连续减少。这一性质表明,流经吸积盘的物质逐渐变得难以到达中子星表面,可能是由于辐射压力增加而形成外流。在几小时到几天的时间尺度上,整个源的变化被发现是由两个独立的变量控制;质量吸积率,和最里面的磁盘半径的物理和人为的变化。

英文摘要:

To investigate the physics of mass accretion onto weakly-magnetized neutron stars, 95 archival RXTE datasets of an atoll source 4U 1608-522, acquired over 1996-2004 in so-called upper-banana state, were analyzed. The object meantime exhibited 3-30 keV luminosity in the range of <~ 10^35 - 4 x 10^37 erg s^-1, assuming a distance of 3.6 kpc. The 3-30 keV PCA spectra, produced one from each dataset, were represented successfully with a combination of a soft and a hard component, of which the presence was revealed in a model-independent manner by studying spectral variations among the observations. The soft component is expressed by so-called multi-color disk model with a temperature of ~1.8 keV, and is attributed to the emission from an optically-thick standard accretion disk. The hard component is a blackbody emission with a temperature of ~2.7 keV, thought to be emitted from the neutron-star surface. As the total luminosity increases, a continuous decrease was observed in the ratio of the blackbody luminosity to that of the disk component. This property suggests that the matter flowing through the accretion disk gradually becomes difficult to reach the neutron-star surface, presumably forming outflows driven by the increased radiation pressure. On time scales of hours to days, the overall source variability was found to be controlled by two independent variables; the mass accretion rate, and the innermost disk radius which changes both physically and artificially.

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