期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 718, 期 2, 页码 620-631出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/718/2/620
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; binaries: close; X-rays: binaries
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10773023, 10833002]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shanghai Pujiang Program [08PJ14111]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2009CB824800]
- Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the maximal luminosity of X-ray outburst and the orbital period in transient low mass X-ray binaries (or soft X-ray transients) observed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in the past decade. We find that the maximal luminosity (3-200 keV) in Eddington units generally increases with increasing orbital period, which does not show a luminosity saturation but in general agrees with theoretical prediction. The peak luminosities in ultra-compact binaries might be higher than those with an orbital period of 2-4 hr, but more data are needed to make this claim. We also find that there is no significant difference in the 3-200 keV peak outburst luminosity between neutron star (NS) systems and black hole (BH) systems with orbital periods above 4 hr; however, there might be a significant difference at smaller orbital periods where only NS systems are observed and radiatively inefficient accretion flow is expected to work at low luminosities for BH accreters.
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