TÖRÖK, Gabriel, Kateřina GOLUCHOVÁ, Eva ŠRÁMKOVÁ, Jiří HORÁK, Pavel BAKALA and Martin URBANEC. On one-parametric formula relating the frequencies of twin-peak quasi-periodic oscillations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2018, vol. 473, No 1, p. "L136"-"L140", 5 pp. ISSN 0035-8711. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx177.
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Original name On one-parametric formula relating the frequencies of twin-peak quasi-periodic oscillations
Authors TÖRÖK, Gabriel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Kateřina GOLUCHOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Eva ŠRÁMKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jiří HORÁK (203 Czech Republic), Pavel BAKALA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Martin URBANEC (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 0035-8711.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10308 Astronomy
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/47813059:19240/18:A0000278
Organization Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta – Slezská univerzita v Opavě – Repository
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx177
UT WoS 000438220800028
Keywords in English accretion; accretion discs; stars: neutron; X-rays: binaries
Tags ASTROCOMP, GA17-16287S, LTI17018, SGS-15-2016, ÚF
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Links GA17-16287S, research and development project. LTI17018, research and development project.
Changed by Changed by: Jan Hladík, učo 1305. Changed: 4/4/2019 10:19.
Abstract
Twin-peak quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in several low-mass X-ray binary systems containing neutron stars. Timing the analysis of X-ray fluxes of more than dozen of such systems reveals remarkable correlations between the frequencies of two characteristic peaks present in the power density spectra. The individual correlations clearly differ, but they roughly follow a common individual pattern. High values of measured QPO frequencies and strong modulation of the X-ray flux both suggest that the observed correlations are connected to orbital motion in the innermost part of an accretion disc. Several attempts to model these correlations with simple geodesic orbital models or phenomenological relations have failed in the past. We find and explore a surprisingly simple analytic relation that reproduces individual correlations for a group of several sources through a single parameter. When an additional free parameter is considered within our relation, it well reproduces the data of a large group of 14 sources. The very existence and form of this simple relation support the hypothesis of the orbital origin of QPOs and provide the key for further development of QPO models. We discuss a possible physical interpretation of our relation's parameters and their links to concrete QPO models.
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