Discovery of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from X Persei

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Dec 1997

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American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #111.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1391

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The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observed low luminosity Be X-ray binary pulsar X Persei on March 19 and April 1 1996 with the Proportional Counter Array (PCA). In addition to the coherent pulsations, quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) are observed during the March 19 observation. QPO are so far reported from eight X-ray binary pulsars. All of these pulsars have relatively short or moderate pulse period and are believed to be disk-fed pulsars. Since the QPO detected from X Persei have typical parameters of QPO from X-ray binary pulsars, QPO from X Persei seem to have the same origin as those observed from other X-ray binary pulsars. On the other hand, X Persei has a pulsation period of ~ 838 sec, which is the longest period among the binary pulsars. From the facts that X Persei is a low luminosity Be X-ray binary system, the Roche lobe is not filled, and that the random-walk like behavior of pulse period change in relatively short time scale similar to Vela X-1 is known, the mass accretion onto the compact object in X Persei is considered as a wind-fed system. These facts suggest that the QPO from X Persei might be different phenomena from the QPO from other binary pulsars. In the meeting, we will present the results of the QPO from X Persei and compare the QPO and binary system characteristics between X Persei and other binary pulsars exhibiting QPO.

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