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2014MNRAS.442.1157M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 442, 1157-1165 (2014/August-1)

X-ray reflection in oxygen-rich accretion discs of ultracompact X-ray binaries.

MADEJ O.K., GARCIA J., JONKER P.G., PARKER M.L., ROSS R., FABIAN A.C. and CHENEVEZ J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present spectroscopic X-ray data of two candidate ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs): 4U 0614+091 and 4U 1543-624. We confirm the presence of a broad O viii Lyα reflection line (at ~18Å) using XMM-Newton and Chandra observations obtained in 2012 and 2013. The donor star in these sources is a carbon-oxygen or oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarf. Hence, the accretion disc is enriched with oxygen which makes the O viii Lyα line particularly strong. Modelling the X-ray reflection off a carbon- and oxygen-enriched, hydrogen- and helium-poor disc with models assuming solar composition likely biases several of the best-fitting parameters. In order to describe the X-ray reflection spectra self-consistently, we modify the currently available xillver reflection model. We present initial grids that can be used to model X-ray reflection spectra in UCXBs with carbon-oxygen-rich (and hydrogen- and helium-poor) accretion disc. We find that the new reflection model provides a better overall description of the reflection spectra of 4U 0614+091 and 4U 1543-624 than the reflection models that assume solar abundances.

Abstract Copyright: © 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2014)

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion discs - X-rays: binaries

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