Non-linear resonance in nearly geodesic motion in low-mass X-ray binaries

Details Non-linear resonance in nearly geodesic motion in low-mass X-ray binaries Non-linear resonance in nearly geodesic motion in low-mass X-ray binaries

2003-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302183v1

Publ.Astron.Soc.Jap. 55 (2003) 466-467

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages; accepted for publication in PASJ

Scientific paper

We have explored the ideas that parametric resonance affects nearly geodesic motion around a black hole or a neutron star, and that it may be relevant to the high frequency (twin) quasi-periodic oscillations occurring in some low-mass X-ray binaries. We have assumed the particles or fluid elements of an accretion disc to be subject to an isotropic perturbation of a hypothetical but rather general form. We find that the parametric resonance is indeed excited close to the radius where epicyclic frequencies of radial and meridional oscillations are in a 2:3 ratio. The location and frequencies of the highest amplitude excitation vary with the strength of the perturbation. These results agree with actual frequency ratios of twin kHz QPOs that have been reported in some black hole candidates, and they may be consistent also with correlation of the twin peaks in Sco X-1.

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