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What can we extract from quasi-periodic oscillations?

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2014-12-30 v1

Abstract

In light of the relativistic precession model, we present here detailed analyses, extending the ones performed in the Schwarzschild and Kerr spacetimes. We consider the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in the Hartle-Thorne spacetime, which describes the gravitational field of a rotating and deformed object. We derive the analytic formulas for the epicyclic frequencies in the Hartel-Thorne spacetime and by means of these frequencies we interpret the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations of low-mass X-ray binaries of the atoll and Z - sources, on the basis of the relativistic precession model. Particularly we perform analyzes for Z -source: GX 5-1. We show that the quasi-periodic oscillations data can provide information on the parameters, namely, the mass, angular momentum and quadrupole moment of the compact objects in the low-mass X-ray binaries.

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@article{arxiv.1412.8214,
  title  = {What can we extract from quasi-periodic oscillations?},
  author = {Kuantay Boshkayev and Donato Bini and Jorge Rueda and Andrea Geralico and Marco Muccino and Ivan Siutsou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.8214},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 11 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1008.0088, arXiv:1201.6071 by other authors