Spin-up of low-luminosity, low-mass X-ray binaries

被引:6
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作者
Yi, IS
Grindlay, JE
机构
[1] Inst Adv Study, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
[2] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] Ewha Womans Univ, CAIS RIBs, Seoul 120750, South Korea
[4] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Phys, Seoul 120750, South Korea
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 1998年 / 505卷 / 02期
关键词
accretion; accretion disks; pulsars : general; stars : magnetic fields; X-rays : stars;
D O I
10.1086/306193
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We examine the spin-up of low;luminosity, low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) to millisecond pulsars (MSPs). In the conventional spin-up model of the Ghosh & Lamb type, where the stellar magnetic field interacts with the Keplerian accretion disk, MSPs could be produced from LMXBs if the magnetic field B* less than or similar to 10(8)((M) over dot/10(16) g s(-1)) G, where (M) over dot is the mass accretion rate. However, for (M) over dot < (M) over dot(c) similar to 10(16) g s(-1) accretion is likely to occur via a quasi-spherical flow with a sub-Keplerian rotation. The sub-Keplerian rotation rate is smaller than the Keplerian rate by a factor similar to 2-10. As a consequence, the spin up of LMXBs produces pulsars with spin periods longer by a factor of similar to 2-10 than those with a Keplerian accretion disk. The observed MSPs could be produced only for B* < 10(7) G even when (M) over dot similar to (M) over dot(c) similar to 10(16) g s(-1). This suggests that the low-luminosity LMXBs with (M) over dot < (M) over dot(c) would not be able to spin-up to the observed MSPs. This rules out any undetected populations of persistent, low-luminosity LMXBs and a potentially significant fraction of the atoll sources as a possible source population of the observed MSPs. If a large number of undetected, persistent, low-luminosity LMXBs do exist, they could produce MSPs near the pulsar death Line with intrinsic electromagnetic luminosity less than or similar to 10(30) ergs s(-1). The observed MSPs could possibly arise from a population of soft X-ray transients (SXTs) containing neutron stars, although this is not supported by current estimates of the outburst rate or numbers of such systems. Accretion-induced collapse of low magnetic field white dwarfs remains a possible channel for MSP formation.
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页码:828 / 834
页数:7
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