Comparing Black Hole and Neutron Star Variability

Details Comparing Black Hole and Neutron Star Variability Comparing Black Hole and Neutron Star Variability

Nov 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005ap%26ss.300..149v&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 300, Issue 1-3, pp. 149-157

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5

X-Rays, Neutron Stars, Black Holes, Rapid Variability, Qpo

Scientific paper

There are remarkable similarities between the rapid X-ray variability of low-magnetic field neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries, and that of black holes. In particular at frequencies < 100 Hz, their power spectra can be strikingly similar. The highest frequency phenomena (kilohertz QPOs, black hole high-frequency QPOs and neutron star hectohertz QPOs) are the ones that show most differences, perhaps because they originate closest to the compact object. Most variability components vary in frequency in correlation with one another, and the correlations once again are very similar across neutron stars and black holes some extend even to white dwarfs. Although this does not strictly require that all phenomena whose frequencies are involved are caused by the same physics in all three source types, this does indicate that basic properties of the accretion flow which are the same in all three source types play an important role in generating at least some of the frequencies.

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