Physics
Scientific paper
Oct 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998adspr..22.1007f&link_type=abstract
Advances in Space Research, v. 22, Issue 7, p. 1007-1016.
Physics
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Scientific paper
QPOs have now been observed from five transient X-ray pulsars. Four of these are in Be/X-ray systems, and one is the newly discovered LMXB transient GRO J1744-28. I review the observations, and discuss their interpretation in terms of the beat or Keplerian frequency models. These models are successful in explaining the observations for two of the Be/X-ray transients. For one of these, A0535+262, the observations constrain the ratio of the radius of the accretion disk inner edge to the Alfvén radius, providing new information on the accretion disk-magnetosphere boundary region. Neither model can explain the QPO in the remaining two Be/X-ray systems, nor that in GRO J1744-28. It is likely therefore that two or more QPO mechanisms are at work. I discuss the potential for gaining new insight into QPOs from analysis tools unique to pulsed systems, and discuss what we can learn from new observations.
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