J 2010

ON MASS CONSTRAINTS IMPLIED BY THE RELATIVISTIC PRECESSION MODEL OF TWIN-PEAK QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN CIRCINUS X-1

BAKALA, Pavel, Zdeněk STUCHLÍK, Eva ŠRÁMKOVÁ, Gabriel TÖRÖK, Martin URBANEC et. al.

Basic information

Original name

ON MASS CONSTRAINTS IMPLIED BY THE RELATIVISTIC PRECESSION MODEL OF TWIN-PEAK QUASI-PERIODIC OSCILLATIONS IN CIRCINUS X-1

Edition

Astrophysical Journal, CA - Kanada, 2010, 0004-637X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

UT WoS

000276701000059

Keywords in English

HIGH-FREQUENCY QPOS, EQUATION-OF-STATE, X-RAY BINARIES, ACCRETING NEUTRON-STARS, SOURCE 4U 1636-53, BLACK-HOLE, GENERAL-RELATIVITY, DISK OSCILLATIONS, ATOLL SOURCE, KHZ QPOS

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

Links

GA202/09/0772, research and development project. LC06014, research and development project. MSM4781305903, plan (intention).
Změněno: 7/12/2020 11:55, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

Boutloukos et al. discovered twin-peak quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in 11 observations of the peculiar Z-source Circinus X-1. Among several other conjunctions the authors briefly discussed the related estimate of the compact object mass following from the geodesic relativistic precession model for kHz QPOs. Neglecting the neutron star rotation they reported the inferred mass M-0 = 2.2 +/- 0.3 M-circle dot. We present a more detailed analysis of the estimate which involves the frame-dragging effects associated with rotating spacetimes. For a free mass we find acceptable fits of the model to data for (any) small dimensionless compact object angular momentum j = cJ/GM(2). Moreover, quality of the fit tends to increase very gently with rising j. Goodfits are reached when M similar to M-0[1 + 0.55(j + j(2))].