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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 462, 期 1, 页码 L71-L74出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw128
关键词
accretion, accretion discs; eclipses; X-rays: binaries
资金
- Ernest Rutherford STFC fellowship
- ESA Member States
- NASA
- STFC [ST/N000757/1, ST/M005283/1, ST/M005283/2] Funding Source: UKRI
The presence or lack of eclipses in the X-ray light curves of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) can be directly linked to the accreting system geometry. In the case where the compact object is stellar mass and radiates isotropically, we should expect eclipses by a main-sequence to sub-giant secondary star on the recurrence time-scale of hours to days. X-ray light curves are now available for large numbers of ULXs as a result of the latest XMM-Newton catalogue. We determine the amount of fractional variability that should be injected into an otherwise featureless light curve for a given set of system parameters as a result of eclipses and compare this to the available data. We find that the vast majority of sources for which the variability has been measured to be non-zero and for which available observations meet the criteria for eclipse searches, have fractional variabilities which are too low to derive from eclipses and so must be viewed such that theta <= cos(-1)(R*/a). This would require that the disc subtends a larger angle than that of the secondary star and is therefore consistent with a conical outflow formed from super-critical accretion rates and implies some level of geometrical beaming in ULXs.
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