On the Physics of Type I X-ray Bursts on Accreting Neutron Stars at High Accretion Rates

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2006-08-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608068v1

Astrophys.J.648:L123-L126,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure, accepted by ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/508167

We investigate the effect of the hot CNO cycle breakout reaction 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne on the occurrence of type I X-ray bursts on accreting neutron stars. For f_rp <~ 0.1, where f_rp is a dimensionless factor by which we multiply the 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne reaction rate of Caughlan & Fowler (1988), our model predicts that bursts should occur only for accretion rates below a critical value of approximately 0.3 times the Eddington limit. This agrees with observations. For larger values of f_rp, including the standard choice f_rp = 1, the model switches to a new regime in which bursts occur all the way up to roughly the Eddington limit. Since the latter regime disagrees with observations, we suggest that the true 15O(alpha,gamma)19Ne reaction rate is lower than usually assumed.

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