The optical behaviour of the Be star in the high mass X-ray transient A0535+26/HDE245770 shows that at the periastron typically there is an enhancement in the luminosity of order 0.05 to few tenths mag, and the X- ray outburst happens about 8 days after the periastron. We construct a quantitative model of this event, basing on a nonstationary accretion disk behavior, connected with a high ellipticity of the orbital motion. We explain the observed time delay between the peaks of the optical and X-ray outbursts in this system by the time of radial motion of a matter in the accretion disk, after increase of the mass flux in the vicinity of a periastral point in the binary. This time is determined by the turbulent viscosity, with the parameter α=0.1−0.3, estimated from the comparison of the model with observational data
@article{arxiv.1408.1924,
title = {Estimation of alpha-viscosity coefficient from observations of nonstationary disk accretion},
author = {G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan and A. S. Klepnef and F. Giovannelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1924},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1305.5149