Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients observed by INTEGRAL
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2010-04-05 v1
Abstract
We review X-ray properties of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients following from their observations with INTEGRAL and show that a compact object in these systems is a neutron star with strong magnetic field accreting from the stellar wind of a donor star. We show that presence of a centrifugal barrier at the magnetospheric boundary of the neutron star may be a key to understanding of abrupt short X-ray outbursts of these transients and long intervals of their quiescence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1004.0293,
title = {Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients observed by INTEGRAL},
author = {Sergei A. Grebenev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0293},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Workshop "The Extreme sky: Sampling the Universe above 10 keV" (Otranto/Italy, October 13-17, 2009), PoS, 96, 60