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表征X射线二元长期可变性

Characterizing X-ray binary long-term variability

M. M. Kotze, P. A. Charles

摘要:

在X射线和光波长的低质量和高质量X射线双星中,已经发现了长期(“超轨道”)周期或调制。已经提出了各种机制来解释可变性属性,例如旋进和/或翘曲的吸积盘等。罗西X射线定时探测器上的全天监测器为研究这种行为提供了最广泛(约15年)和最敏感的X射线档案。还清楚的是,这种变化可以是间歇性的和/或X射线光谱状态的函数。因此,我们使用一个随时间变化的动态功率谱方法来研究这些调制如何随时间变化的25个X射线双星的超轨道周期性已被报道。我们的目标是以一种完全系统的方式来描述这些周期性。其中一些(如Her X-1和LMC X-4)非常稳定,但另一些则表现出一系列特性,从更长的可变时间尺度到相当混乱的行为。

英文摘要:

Long-term ("superorbital") periods or modulations have been detected in a wide variety of both low and high-mass X-ray binaries at X-ray and optical wavelengths. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed to account for the variability properties, such as precessing and/or warped accretion discs, amongst others. The All Sky Monitor on board the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer provides the most extensive (~15 years) and sensitive X-ray archive for studying such behaviour. It is also clear that such variations can be intermittent and/or a function of X-ray spectral state. Consequently, we use a time-dependent Dynamic Power Spectrum method to examine how these modulations vary with time in 25 X-ray binaries for which superorbital periodicities have been previously reported. Our aim is to characterize these periodicities in a completely systematic way. Some (such as Her X-1 and LMC X-4) are remarkably stable, but others show a range of properties, from even longer variability time-scales to quite chaotic behaviour.

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