A solution of the puzzling symbiotic X-ray system 4U 1700+24
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2014-05-19 v3 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
A circumstellar corona is proposed for a strange quark-cluster star during an accretion phase, that could be essential to understand the observations of the puzzling symbiotic X-ray system, 4U 1700+24. The state of cold matter at supranuclear density is still an important matter of debate, and one of the certain consequences of strange star as the nature of pulsars is the self-bound on surface which makes extremely low-mass compact objects unavoidable. In principle, both the redshifted O VIII Ly- emission line and the change of the black-body radiation area could be understood naturally if 4U 1700+24 is a low-mass quark-cluster star in case of wind-accretion.
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@article{arxiv.1402.1290,
title = {A solution of the puzzling symbiotic X-ray system 4U 1700+24},
author = {Renxin Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1290},
year = {2014}
}
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A version accepted by RAA