Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-08-27
Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.119:1108,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 2 figures, accepted by PASP 2007
Scientific paper
10.1086/522796
With the possible detection of the fastest spinning nuclear-powered pulsar XTE J1739-285 of frequency 1122 Hz (0.8913 ms), it arouses us to constrain the mass and radius of its central compact object and to imply the stellar matter compositions: neutrons or quarks. Spun-up by the accreting materials to such a high rotating speed, the compact star should have either a small radius or short innermost stable circular orbit. By the empirical relation between the upper kHz quasi-periodic oscillation frequency and star spin frequency, a strong constraint on mass and radius is obtained as 1.51 solar masses and 10.9 km, which excludes most equations of states (EOSs) of normal neutrons and strongly hints the star promisingly to be a strange quark star. Furthermore, the star magnetic field is estimated to be about $4\times10^{7} (G) < B < 10^{9} (G) $, which reconciles with those of millisecond radio pulsars, revealing the clues of the evolution linkage of two types of astrophysical objects.
Li Xiao-Dong
Wei Ying-Chun
Yin Hong-Xing
Zhang Cheng-Min
Zhao Yong-Heng
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