Parameters of X-ray binary system Scorpius X-1
Abstract
We modelled optical light curves of Sco~X-1 obtained by the Kepler space telescope during K2 mission. Modelling was performed for the case of the strong heating of the optical star and accretion disc by X-rays. In the considered model the optical star fully filled its Roche lobe. We investigated the inverse problem in wide ranges of values of model parameters and estimated following parameters of Sco X-1: the mass ratio of components (), where and were masses of the neutron and optical stars correspondingly, the orbital inclination was (). In the brackets uncertainties of parameters and were shown, they originated due to uncertainties of characteristics of the physical model of Sco X-1. The temperature of non-heated optical star was K, its radius was cm, and its bolometric luminosity was erg s. The mass of the star was . The contribution of the X-ray heated accretion disc dominated in the total optical emission of Sco~X-1. The transition between low and high states occurred due to the increase of X-ray luminosity by a factor .
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@article{arxiv.2109.00967,
title = {Parameters of X-ray binary system Scorpius X-1},
author = {A. M. Cherepashchuk and T. S. Khruzina and A. I. Bogomazov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00967},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
18 pages, 17 figures, MNRAS accepted