Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-18
Astron.Nachr.326:845-848,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1002/asna.200510425
It was pointed out by Paczynski (1987) that the X-ray luminosity of accreting neutron stars is very sensitive to the physical properties of the accretion flow close to the innermost stable circular orbit. The X-ray radiation is dominated by that emitted in the boundary layer, where accreted matter hits a star surface. The X-ray luminosity of the boundary layer is proportional to the local accretion rate. In this note, we estimate local accretion rate variations from the disk that undergoes non-stationary axisymmetric perturbations. The perturbations are given by the poloidal-velocity potential. We obtain a simple formula describing the modulation of the accretion rate for the particular case of global vertical disk oscillations that have been recently studied by Abramowicz et al. (2005).
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