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中等质量黑洞对白矮星的潮汐剥离产生的快速超亮X射线爆发

Fast, ultra-luminous X-ray bursts from tidal stripping of White Dwarfs by Intermediate-mass Black Holes

Rong-Feng Shen

摘要:

Irwin等人最近在椭圆星系的紧密伴星中发现了两个X射线源,它们显示出快速上升(~分钟)和衰减(~小时)的超亮耀斑,峰值亮度约为10^{40-41} erg/s。它们与之前发现的另外两个源一起构成了一种新型的快速瞬变,这种瞬变不能归因于中子星,而可能是中等质量黑洞(IMBHs; 10^{2-4} M_sun)造成的。至少有两个源的燃烧行为是经常性的。如果耀斑代表在偏心轮上的施主星的近星点通过期间在IMBH上的短时间吸积(即,重复)或抛物线(非重复)的轨道,我们认为耀斑的上升时间对应的持续时间,在此期间,捐助者的潮汐剥离质量加入残留盘在近心。这个持续时间又等于其他三个时间尺度:剥离的持续时间,供体的声音穿越时间,以及在近心点半径处的圆形轨道时间。只有白矮星的声音穿越时间可以短到一分钟。因此,施主必须是一颗白矮星,并且它在每次通过IMBH时,在几到几十个史瓦西半径处被剥夺了~10^{-10} M太阳。通量衰减对应于所供给的物质向孔的粘性排出。在长期X射线监测的帮助下,这种快速瞬变将成为下一代引力波探测器的理想目标。

英文摘要:

Two X-ray sources were recently discovered by Irwin et al. in compact companions to elliptical galaxies to show ultra-luminous flares with fast rise (~ minute) and decay (~ hour), and with a peak luminosity ~10^{40-41} erg/s. Together with two other sources found earlier, they constitute a new type of fast transients which cannot be attributed to neutron stars but might be due to intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; 10^{2-4} M_sun). The flaring behavior is recurrent for at least two sources. If the flare represents a short period of accretion onto an IMBH during the periastron passage of a donor star on an eccentric (i.e., repeating) or parabolic (non-repeating) orbit, we argue that the flare's rise time corresponds to the duration during which the donor's tidally stripped mass joins a residual disk at the pericenter. This duration is in turn equal to three other time scales: the duration of stripping, the sound crossing time of the donor, and the circular orbit time at the pericenter radius. Only a white dwarf can have a sound crossing time as short as one minute. Therefore, the donor must be a white dwarf and it was stripped of ~10^{-10} M_sun upon each passage at several to tens of Schwarzschild radii from the IMBH. The flux decay corresponds to the viscous drainage of the supplied mass toward the hole. Aided with long-term X-ray monitoring, this type of fast transients would be an ideal target for next-generation gravitational wave detectors.

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