ASCA Observations of Transient X-Ray Sources in Quiescence

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Dec 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998pasj...50..611a&link_type=abstract

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, v.50, p.611-619.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

80

Black Holes, Stars: Neutron, X-Rays: Binaries, X-Rays: Sources

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Soft X-ray transients are most probably low-mass binary systems containing either a neutron star (NS-LMXB) or a black hole (BH-LMXB). We have systematically investigated thirteen soft X-ray transients (four NS-LMXBs and nine BH-LMXBs) in the quiescent state using the available ASCA data. The luminosities of the observed NS-LMXBs in quiescence are on the order of ~ 10({32) - 33} erg s(-1) , whereas those of the BH-LMXBs are found to be systematically lower, most of them giving upper limits in the range below 10(32) erg s(-1) . The quiescent luminosity of LMXBs may be explained in terms of an optically thin, advection-dominated accretion disk, for which most of the thermal and kinetic energies of accreting matter are advected into the compact object with little X-ray emission. However, this scenario predicts a much larger luminosity for NS-LMXBs than observed, if the advected energies are liberated at the neutron-star surface, which is absent in BH-LMXBs. Mass accretion onto the neutron-star surface may be suppressed through some mechanism, such as the so-called propeller effect. The soft component observed in the NS-LMXBs is most probably emission from the magnetic pole regions of the neutron star.

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