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标架拖曳对X射线双星铁K α线的影响

The effect of frame dragging on the iron K alpha line in X-ray binaries

Adam Ingram, Chris Done

摘要:

在许多黑洞和中子星双星中,低频准周期振荡(QPO)所呈现的清晰的特征时间尺度,有可能为吸积流内部区域提供一个非常有力的诊断。然而,如果没有QPO的定量模型,这种潜力就无法实现。我们最近已经表明,相同的截断盘/热内流的几何形状,这是用来解释光谱转换也可以直接产生QPO从透镜-Thirring(垂直)进动的热内流。这正确地预测了QPO的频率和频谱,以及这些属性与源的总频谱的紧密相关性,通过改变圆盘和热流之间的截断半径。这个模型预测了一个独特的铁线签名作为一个垂直倾斜的流动照亮不同方位的光盘,因为它的旋进。当流动照射旋转盘的接近区域时,由该旋转照射产生的铁线蓝移,而当流动照射旋转盘的后退区域时,铁线红移。这引起了QPO频率上的铁线的特征摇摆,这是对Lense-Thirring起源的必要(并且可能是足够的)测试。这也是一个独立的测试光盘截断模型的低/硬状态,垂直进动不会发生,如果有一个光盘中平面。我们表明,它可能是可以观察到这种效果使用档案数据从罗西X射线定时探测器(RXTE)或XMM牛顿。然而,一个干净的测试需要适度的分辨率和良好的统计数据相结合,例如可以从长期的XMM-牛顿观测或从拟议的欧空局任务LOFT的数据。

英文摘要:

The clear characteristic timescale picked out by the low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) seen in many black hole and neutron star binaries has the potential to provide a very powerful diagnostic of the inner regions of the accretion flow. However, this potential cannot be realised without a quantitative model for the QPO. We have recently shown that the same truncated disc/hot inner flow geometry which is used to interpret the spectral transitions can also directly produce the QPO from Lense-Thirring (vertical) precession of the hot inner flow. This correctly predicts both the frequency and spectrum of the QPO, and the tight correlation of these properties with the total spectrum of the source via a changing truncation radius between the disc and hot flow. This model predicts a unique iron line signature as a vertically tilted flow illuminates different azimuths of the disc as it precesses. The iron line arising from this rotating illumination is blue shifted when the flow irradiates the approaching region of the spinning disc and red shifted when the flow irradiates the receding region of the disc. This gives rise to a characteristic rocking of the iron line on the QPO frequency which is a necessary (and probably sufficient) test of a Lense-Thirring origin. This is also an independent test of disc truncation models for the low/hard state, as vertical precession cannot occur if there is a disc in the midplane. We show that it may be possible to observe this effect using archival data from the Rossi X-ray timing explorer (RXTE) or XMM Newton. However, a clean test requires a combination of moderate resolution and good statistics, such as would be available from a long XMM-Newton observation or with data from the proposed ESA mission LOFT.

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