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2018MNRAS.479.5049S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 479, 5049-5059 (2018/October-0)

A possible explanation of the parallel tracks in kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations from low-mass X-ray binaries.

SHI C.-S., ZHANG S.-N. and LI X.-D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We recalculate the modes of the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) waves in the MHD model of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries (NS-LMXBs), in which the compressed magnetosphere is considered. A method on point-by-point scanning for every parameter of a normal LMXBs is proposed to determine the wavenumber in an NS-LMXB. Then dependence of the twin kHz QPO frequencies on accretion rates ({dot}M) is obtained with the wavenumber and magnetic field (B*) determined by our method. Based on the MHD model, a new explanation of the parallel tracks, i.e. the slowly varying effective magnetic field leads to the shift of parallel tracks in a source, is presented. In this study, we obtain a simple power-law relation between the kHz QPO frequencies and in those sources. Finally, we study the dependence of kHz quasi-periodic oscillation frequencies on the spin, mass, and radius of a neutron star. We find that the effective magnetic field, the spin, mass, and radius of a neutron star lead to the parallel tracks in different sources.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): accretion: accretion discs - MHD - stars: magnetic fields - X-rays: binaries

Errata: erratum vol. 489, p. 2307 (2019)

Simbad objects: 6

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