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Frequency Correlation of QPOs Based on a Resonantly-Excited Disk-Oscillation Model

Astrophysics 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

In previous papers, we have proposed a model that the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) observed in black-hole and neutron-star X-ray binaries are inertial-acoustic oscillations that are resonantly excited on a one-armed deformed disk by nonlinear couplings between the oscillations and the disk deformation. In this paper we show that in addition to the inertial-acoustic waves, one-armed corrugation waves are also excited in the deformed disks. They are low-frequency oscillations. We examine frequencies and their correlations among the inertial-acoustic oscillations and the corrugation waves that are excited, in order to know whether they can describe observed frequency correlations among kHz QPOs and low-frequency QPOs (LF QPOs) in neutron-star X-ray binaries. The results seem to well describe the observed correlations in Cir X-1, if we adopt M=1.52.0MM= 1.5\sim 2.0 M_\odot and a0.8a_* \sim 0.8, where MM is the mass of the central star and aa_* is the dimensionless spin parameter of the metric. Finally, assumptions involved in this disk-oscillation model are briefly summarized and discussed.

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@article{arxiv.0803.2384,
  title  = {Frequency Correlation of QPOs Based on a Resonantly-Excited Disk-Oscillation Model},
  author = {Shoji Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2384},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages, 9 figures, to be published in PASJ Vol. 60 (2008),No 4 (August)

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