The coherence of kHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-rays from accreting neutron stars

Details The coherence of kHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-rays from accreting neutron stars The coherence of kHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-rays from accreting neutron stars

2006-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605486v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.370:1140-1146,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 8 pages, 8 figures, figure 1 in color

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10571.x

We study in a systematic way the quality factor of the lower and upper kHz QPOs in a sample of low luminosity neutron star X-ray binaries, showing both QPOs varying over a wide frequency range. The sample includes 4U 1636-536, 4U 1608-522, 4U 1735-44, 4U 1728-34, 4U 1820-303 and 4U 0614+09. We find that all sources except 4U 0614+091 show evidence of a drop in the quality factor of their lower kHz QPOs at high frequency. For 4U 0614+091 only the rising part of the quality factor versus frequency curve has been sampled so far. At the same time, in all sources but 4U 1728-34, the quality factor of the upper kilo-Hz QPO increases all the way to the highest detectable frequencies. We show that the high-frequency behaviours of both the lower and upper kHz QPO quality factors are consistent with what is expected if the drop is produced by the approach of an active oscillating region to the innermost stable circular orbit: the existence of which is a key feature of General Relativity in the strong field regime. Within this interpretation, our results imply gravitational masses around 2 solar masses for the neutron stars in those systems.

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