Cooling of accreting neutron stars吸积中子星的冷却.pptVIP

Probing the neutron star physics with accreting neutron stars (part 2) Alessandro Patruno University of Amsterdam The Netherlands How to probe the NS physics with NS LMXBs ? Outburst vs. quiescence During an outburst we observe: 1. disc + NS surface emission 2. the outburst luminosity is given by 3. the quiescent luminosity is given by 4. the average mass transfer rate is therefore: The quiescent emission How to fit a quiescent spectrum ? BB vs. NSA models Heating and cooling of NSs The crust-core coupling A fraction f or heat flows into the core A fraction 1-f flows into the crust The core has high thermal conductivity and heat capacity ? temperature is almost unchanged The crust has high thermal conductivity and low heat capacity ? temperature significantly incresed by the heat flow The quasi persistent transients How many quasi persistent transients do we know ? KS 1731-260 MXB 1659-29 Power law vs. exponential decay: the situation ‘till early 2008 The thermal relaxation timescale and the surface temperature The new observation of MXB 1659-29 New constraints for MXB 1659 How model dependent is the result ? 1. Enhanced neutrino high thermal conductivity of the crust ? Enhanced neutrino high thermal conductivity of the crust ? Exponential vs. power law SAX J1808.4-3658 Minimal cooling paradigm Minimal cooling paradigm Sources of error Distance D=3.5(1) kpc ? 6% uncertainity Mass and radius ? 3% (M=1.4 R=10 Km to M=2.0 R=12 Km) Mass transfer rate assumed to be the observed one Why the thermal component is not residual accretion ? Accretion shows variability on short timescale while we see a smooth exponential decay Therefore the surface emission is quite robust If residuals accretion takes place, we expect variation on the observed quiescent luminosity from cycle to cycle Reading Yakovlev Pethick Page, Geppert Weber Cackett et al. Chackett et al. Brown Bildsten Rutledge et al. Heinke et al. More references will a