Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-30
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:2036-2048,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 13 figures, MNRAS, in press
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10454.x
Spectra of the spreading layers on the neutron star surface are calculated on the basis of the Inogamov-Sunyaev model taking into account general relativity correction to the surface gravity and considering various chemical composition of the accreting matter. Local (at a given latitude) spectra are similar to the X-ray burst spectra and are described by a diluted black body. Total spreading layer spectra are integrated accounting for the light bending, gravitational redshift, and the relativistic Doppler effect and aberration. They depend slightly on the inclination angle and on the luminosity. These spectra also can be fitted by a diluted black body with the color temperature depending mainly on a neutron star compactness. Owing to the fact that the flux from the spreading layer is close to the critical Eddington, we can put constraints on a neutron star radius without the need to know precisely the emitting region area or the distance to the source. The boundary layer spectra observed in the luminous low-mass X-ray binaries, and described by a black body of color temperature Tc=2.4+-0.1 keV, restrict the neutron star radii to R=14.8+- 1.5 km (for a 1.4-Msun star and solar composition of the accreting matter), which corresponds to the hard equation of state.
Poutanen Juri
Suleimanov Valery
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