Innermost stable circular orbits around strange stars and kHz QPOs in low-mass X-ray binaries

Details Innermost stable circular orbits around strange stars and kHz QPOs in low-mass X-ray binaries Innermost stable circular orbits around strange stars and kHz QPOs in low-mass X-ray binaries

2000-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0002394v1

Astron.Astrophys.356:612,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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Exact calculations of innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) around rotating strange stars are performed within the framework of general relativity. Equations of state (EOS) of strange quark matter based on the MIT Bag Model with massive strange quarks and lowest order QCD interactions, are used. The presence of a solid crust of normal matter on rotating, mass accreting strange stars in LMXBs is taken into account. It is found that, contrary to neutron stars, above some minimum mass a gap always separates the ISCO and stellar surface, independently of the strange star rotation rate. For a given baryon mass of strange star, we calculate the ISCO frequency as function of stellar rotation frequency, from static to Keplerian configuration. For masses close to the maximum mass of static configurations the ISCO frequencies for static and Keplerian configurations are similar. However, for masses significantly lower than the maximum mass of static configurations, the minimum value of the ISCO frequency is reached in the Keplerian limit. Presence of a solid crust increases the ISCO frequency for the Keplerian configuration by about ten percent compared to that for a bare strange star of the same mass.

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