A remark about possible unity of the neutron star and black hole high frequency QPOs

• Authors: Gabriel Török , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Pavel Bakala
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In a series of papers it was discussed,on the basis of phenomenological arguments, whether the high frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (kHz QPOs)observed in the neutron-star and black-hole X-ray sources originate in the same physical mechanism. Recently it was suggested that a general trend seen in neutron star kHz QPOs instead excludes such a uniform origin. Using the example of the atoll source 4U 1636-53 we illustrate that this is not neccesarily true.

Keywords

EN

X-rays; binaries; accretion; accretion discs; stars; neutron

Discipline

• 97.60.Lf: Black holes(see also 04.70.-s Physics of black holes in—General relativity and gravitation; for galactic black holes, see 98.35.Jk and 98.62.Js)
• 97.10.Gz: Accretion and accretion disks
• 97.10.Sj: Pulsations, oscillations, and stellar seismology
• 97.60.Jd: Neutron stars(see also 26.60.-c Nuclear matter aspects of neutron stars in—Nuclear physics)
• 97.80.Jp: X-ray binaries(see also 98.70.Qy X-ray sources and 97.60.Gb Pulsars)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Physics
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 457-462

Dates

published

1 - 12 - 2007

online

1 - 12 - 2007

Contributors

author

Gabriel Török

• Institute of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-746 01, Opava, Czech Republic

author

Zdeněk Stuchlík

• Institute of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-746 01, Opava, Czech Republic

author

Pavel Bakala

• Institute of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, Bezručovo nám. 13, CZ-746 01, Opava, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11534-007-0039-0