Correlations between kHz QPO and Low Frequency Features Attributed to Radial Oscillations and Diffusive Propagation in the Viscous Boundary Layer Around a Neutron Star

Details Correlations between kHz QPO and Low Frequency Features Attributed to Radial Oscillations and Diffusive Propagation in the Viscous Boundary Layer Around a Neutron Star Correlations between kHz QPO and Low Frequency Features Attributed to Radial Oscillations and Diffusive Propagation in the Viscous Boundary Layer Around a Neutron Star

1999-04-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9904293v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 4 figures, it it will appear in ApJLetters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312083

We present a dimensional analysis of two characteristic time scales in the boundary layer where the disk adjusts to the rotating neutron star (NS). The boundary layer is treated as a transition region between the NS surface and the first Keplerian orbit. The radial transport of the angular momentum in this layer is controlled by a viscous force defined by the Reynolds number, which in turn is related to the mass accretion rate. We show that the observed low-Lorentzian frequency is associated with radial oscillations in the boundary layer, where the observed break frequency is determined by the characteristic diffusion time of the inward motion of the matter in the accretion flow. Predictions of our model regarding relations between those two frequencies and frequencies of kHz QPO's compare favorably with recent observations for the source 4U 1728-34. This Letter contains a theoretical classification of kHz QPO's in NS binaries and the related low frequency features. Thus, results concerning the relationship of the low-Lorentzian frequency of viscous oscillations and the break frequency are presented in the framework of our model of kHz QPO's viewed as Keplerian oscillations in a rotating frame of reference.

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