The wind-disk interaction in X-ray burst sources

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Aug 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985apj...295...98m&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 295, Aug. 1, 1985, p. 98-103.

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Accretion Disks, Cosmic X Rays, Neutron Stars, Stellar Mass Accretion, Stellar Winds, X Ray Sources, Computational Astrophysics, Stellar Luminosity

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The interaction between a radiatively driven wind from the surface of a neutron star and an accretion disk surrounding the star is considered. A bow shock forms if the wind is supersonic when it reaches the inner edge of the disk. The resultant heating of the wind material can enhance the X-ray luminosity of the source, but this effect is important only if the wind is very strong. If the terminal velocity of the wind is at least about 0.99c and the integrated kinetic energy flux of the wind is at least about 30 times the Eddington limit, then super-Eddington X-ray luminosities will be generated. The conditions that are required for the formation of such a wind are briefly discussed. Also developed are estimates for the spectral shape, color temperature, and X-ray luminosity resulting from the wind-disk interaction, and it is shown that these results are consistent with the observed properties of type I cosmic X-ray bursts.

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