Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.459..301k&link_type=abstract
In: Exploring the gamma-ray universe. Proceedings of the Fourth INTEGRAL Workshop, 4-8 September 2000, Alicante, Spain. Editor:
Computer Science
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Dense Matter, Equation Of State, Stars: Binaries, X-Rays: Stars
Scientific paper
It has been suggested that both X-ray bursters and millisecond radio pulsars may be strange (quark) stars, rather than neutron stars. Confirming (or rejecting) this suggestion may require knowing what role strong-field effects of general relativity play in the accretion flow of the compact X-ray source in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We discuss the range of rotational and orbital frequencies, and of masses expected in various models of strange stars, and compare them with observational constraints, suggested by the observed frequencies of kHz QPOs. We explain why future observations of transients (such as SAX J1808.4-3658) may be crucial to understanding kHz QPOs. For flattened (e.g., rapidly rotating) distributions of matter, an innermost (marginally) stable orbit may be present even if relativistic effects are negligible. Depending on the stellar rotation rate, the same value of orbital frequency in the innermost stable orbit (say, 1 kHz) can correspond to a star of any mass less then about two solar masses, e.g., 1.4 Msolar or 0.01 Msolar.
Bulik Tomasz
Gondek-Rosinska Dorota
Kluzniak Wiodzimierz
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