Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
ON THE NATURE OF THE 35-DAY CYCLE IN THE X-RAY BINARY HER X-1/HZ HER
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2019
Языканглийский
  • Bikmaev Ilfan Fyaritovich, author
  • Irtuganov Eldar Nailevich, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Shakura N, Kolesnikov D, Postnov K, On the nature of the 35-day cycle in the X-ray binary Her X-1/HZ Her//Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. - 2019. - Vol., Is.. - P.281-287.
    Annotation The X-ray binary Her X-1 consists of an accreting neutron star and the optical companion HZ Her. The 35-day X-ray variability of this system is known since its discovery in 1972 by the UHURU satellite and is believed to be caused by forced precession of the warped accretion disk tilted to the orbital plane. We argue that the observed features of the optical variability of HZ Her can be explained by free precession of the neutron star with a period close to that of the forced disk precession. The model parameters include a) the intensity (power) of the stream of matter flowing out of the optical star; b) the X-ray luminosity of the neutron star; c) the optical flux of the accretion disk; d) the X-ray irradiation pattern on the donor star; e) the tilt of the inner and outer edge of the accretion disk. A possible synchronization mechanism based on the coupling between the neutron star free precession and the dynamical action of non-stationary gas streams is discussed shortly.
    Keywords массивные рентгеновские двойные системы, искривленные аккреционные диски, нейтронные звезды
    The name of the journal Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
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