Discovery of a 270 Hz X-Ray Burst Oscillation in the X-Ray Dipper 4U 1916-053.pdf

下载文档

7
0
约2.31万字
约 12页
2017-04-11 发布于江苏
举报
版权申诉
保障服务

Discovery of a 270 Hz X-Ray Burst Oscillation in the X-Ray Dipper 4U 1916-053.pdf

1、本文档共12页，可阅读全部内容。
2、原创力文档（book118）网站文档一经付费（服务费），不意味着购买了该文档的版权，仅供个人/单位学习、研究之用，不得用于商业用途，未经授权，严禁复制、发行、汇编、翻译或者网络传播等，侵权必究。
3、本站所有内容均由合作方或网友上传，本站不对文档的完整性、权威性及其观点立场正确性做任何保证或承诺！文档内容仅供研究参考，付费前请自行鉴别。如您付费，意味着您自己接受本站规则且自行承担风险，本站不退款、不进行额外附加服务；查看《如何避免下载的几个坑》。如果您已付费下载过本站文档，您可以点击这里二次下载。
4、如文档侵犯商业秘密、侵犯著作权、侵犯人身权等，请点击“版权申诉”（推荐），也可以打举报电话：400-050-0827(电话支持时间：9:00-18:30)。

Discovery of a 270 Hz X-Ray Burst Oscillation in the X-Ray Dipper 4U 1916-053

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 0 1 0 0 7 2 v 3 2 0 D e c 2 0 0 0 Discovery of a 270 Hz X-Ray Burst Oscillation in the X-Ray Dipper 4U 1916?053 Duncan K. Galloway, Deepto Chakrabarty, Michael P. Muno, and Pavlin Savov Center for Space Research and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 duncan,deepto,muno,pavlin@ Accepted for The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2000 Dec 20 ABSTRACT We report the discovery of a highly coherent oscillation in a type-I X-ray burst ob- served from 4U 1916?053 by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE ). The oscillation was most strongly detected ≈ 1 s after the burst onset at a frequency of 269.3 Hz, and it increased in frequency over the following 4 seconds of the burst decay to a maximum of ?272 Hz. The total measured drift of 3.58 ± 0.41 Hz (1σ) represents the largest fractional change in frequency (1.32 ± 0.15 %) yet observed in any burst oscillation. If the asymptotic frequency of the oscillation is interpreted in terms of a decoupled surface burning layer, the implied neutron star spin period is around 3.7 ms. However, the expansion of the burning layer required to explain the frequency drift during the burst is around 80 m, substantially larger than expected theoretically (assuming rigid rotation). The oscillation was not present in the persistent emission before the burst, nor in the initial rise. When detected its amplitude was 6–12% (RMS) with a roughly sinusoidal profile. The burst containing the oscillation showed no evidence for photo- spheric radius expansion, while at least 5 of the other 9 bursts observed from the source by RXTE during 1996 and 1998 did. No comparable oscillations were detected in the other bursts. A pair of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) has been previously reported from this source with a mean separation of 348 ± 12 Hz. 4U 1916?053 is the first example of a source where the burst oscillation frequency is significantly smaller than the frequency