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Aql X-1超暴后从边缘稳定燃烧到不稳定燃烧转变的发现

Discovery of transition from marginally stable burning to unstable burning after a superburst in Aql X-1

Zhaosheng Li, Yuanyue Pan, Maurizio Falanga

摘要:

超暴是由中子星低质量X射线双星(NS LMXB)产生的持续时间长、数量少、能量极高的热核爆炸,被认为是由不稳定的碳点火引起的。本文报道了MJD 59130.7上的中子星内部成分探测器(NICER)、全天空X射线图像监视器、雨燕和洞察硬X射线调制望远镜(Insight-HXMT)观测到的Aql X-1超暴的性质和后果。我们发现两个微弱的I型X射线爆发9.44天后的超级爆发与7.6分钟的短重现时间,这是最准确的测量淬火时间在所有NS LMXB与观察到的超级爆发。我们还发现了频率范围为2.7- 11.3 mHz的mHz准周期振荡,在超级爆发之后,在NICER,Swift和Insight-HXMT观测的第一次I型X射线爆发恢复之前和之后。我们第一次观察到了NS LMXBs从超暴到临界稳定燃烧到不稳定燃烧的转变。我们比较了淬火时间和复发时间的I型X射线爆发与模拟。

英文摘要:

Superbursts are long duration, rare, and extremely energetic thermonuclear explosions of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries (NS LMXBs), which are proposed to be due to unstable carbon ignition. We report the superburst properties and consequences from Aql X-1 observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, Swift, and Insight Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) on the MJD 59130.7. We found two faint type I X-ray bursts 9.44 days after the superburst with a short recurrence time of 7.6 minutes, which is the most accurate measurement of the quenching time in all NS LMXBs with observed superbursts. We also discovered mHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the frequency range 2.7--11.3 mHz immediately after the superburst, before and after the resumption of the first type I X-ray burst from NICER, Swift, and Insight-HXMT observations. For the first time, we observed the transition from superburst, via marginally stable burning to unstable burning in NS LMXBs. We compared the quenching time and the recurrence time of type I X-ray bursts with simulations.

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