Post-Burst Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from GRO J1744-28 and from the Rapid Burster

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1997-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9703130v1

ApJ Letters 482 (1997) L53-L56

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures, to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/310669

The repetitive X-ray bursts from the accretion-powered pulsar GRO J1744-28 show similarities to the type II X-ray bursts from the Rapid Burster. Several authors (notably Lewin et al.) have suggested that the bursts from GRO J1744-28 are type II bursts (which arise from the sudden release of gravitational potential energy). In this paper, we present another similarity between these sources. Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of GRO J1744-28 show that at least 10 out of 94 bursts are followed by quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) with frequencies of about 0.4 Hz. The period of the oscillations decreases over their 30--80 s lifetime, and they occur during a spectrally hard ``shoulder'' (or ``plateau'') which follows the burst. In one case the QPO show a modulation envelope which resembles simple beating between two narrow-band oscillations at 0.325 and 0.375 Hz. Using EXOSAT observations, Lubin et al. found QPO with frequencies of 0.039 to 0.056 Hz following 10 out of 95 type II bursts from the Rapid Burster. As in GRO J1744-28, the period of these oscillations decreased over their 100 s lifetime, and they occurred only during spectrally hard ``humps'' in the persistent emission. Even though the QPO frequencies differ by a factor of 10, we believe that this is further evidence that a similar accretion disk instability is responsible for the type II bursts from these two sources.

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