Instability in a braking disk: Herculis X-1 in the inactive state

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Accretion Disks, Binary Stars, Braking, Mass Flow, Stability, Mass Distribution, Neutron Stars, Stellar Activity, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Mass Accretion, Stellar Mass Ejection, Stellar Models

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We study the properties of the accretion disk in the binary system HZ Her/Her X-1 during an 'inactive' phase. Such phases without accretion onto the neutron star are known from historical plate collections. We show that a disk instability, comparable to the one causing the dwarf nova outbursts will probably lead to cyclic light variations. But the higher luminosity of the secondary star makes them hardly detectable.

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