Bardeen-Petterson effect and QPOs in low-mass X-ray binaries

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Oct 2001

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RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS: 20th Texas Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 586, pp. 544-546 (2001).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Black Holes, Neutron Stars, X-Ray Binaries, Accretion And Accretion Disks

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The Bardeen-Petterson effect around a rapidly-rotating compact object causes a tilted accretion disk to warp into the equatorial plane of the rotating body at a characteristic radius. We propose that accreting material passing through the transition region may generate quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) such as have been observed in a number of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We argue that the QPO frequency range predicted by this model is consistent with observed QPO frequencies in both black-hole and neutron-star LMXBs. .

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