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上、下kHz类量子点的频谱定时特性

The spectral-timing properties of upper and lower kHz QPOs

Philippe Peille, Didier Barret, Phil Uttley

摘要:

中子星低质量X射线双星4U 1608 - 522和4U 1636 - 536的低千赫准周期振荡(kHz QPO)发射的软滞后已被报道。这些滞后具有约束QPO排放源的前景。在本文中,我们调查的频谱定时特性的低和高kHz QPO从中子星二进制4U 1728 - 34,使用整个罗西X射线定时探测器档案在这个来源。我们发现,两个QPO的滞后能量谱是系统不同的:而较低的kHz QPO显示软滞后,较高的kHz QPO显示一个平坦的滞后能量谱或硬变化滞后软的变化。这表明两种不同的QPO生成机制。我们还对两个kHz QPO的协方差谱进行了第一次谱去卷积。QPO光谱与康普顿化黑体发射一致,类似于在时间平均光谱中发现的,但具有更高的种子光子温度,这表明康普顿化层(边界/扩散层,电晕)的更紧凑的内部区域负责QPO发射。考虑到我们的结果与其他最近的研究结果,这导致我们的假设,即较低的kHz QPO信号产生的紧凑的边界层区域本身的相干振荡。然后,可以将较高kHz QPO信号与在内部吸积盘中产生的较不相干的吸积速率变化相关联,当它们到达边界层时被检测到。

英文摘要:

Soft lags from the emission of the lower kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) of neutron star low mass X-ray binaries have been reported from 4U1608-522 and 4U1636-536. Those lags hold prospects for constraining the origin of the QPO emission. In this paper, we investigate the spectral-timing properties of both the lower and upper kHz QPOs from the neutron star binary 4U1728-34, using the entire Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer archive on this source. We show that the lag-energy spectra of the two QPOs are systematically different: while the lower kHz QPO shows soft lags, the upper kHz QPO shows either a flat lag-energy spectrum or hard variations lagging softer variations. This suggests two different QPO-generation mechanisms. We also performed the first spectral deconvolution of the covariance spectra of both kHz QPOs. The QPO spectra are consistent with Comptonized blackbody emission, similar to the one found in the time-averaged spectrum, but with a higher seed-photon temperature, suggesting that a more compact inner region of the Comptonization layer (boundary/spreading layer, corona) is responsible for the QPO emission. Considering our results together with other recent findings, this leads us to the hypothesis that the lower kHz QPO signal is generated by coherent oscillations of the compact boundary layer region itself. The upper kHz QPO signal may then be linked to less-coherent accretion-rate variations produced in the inner accretion disk, being detected when they reach the boundary layer.

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