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| العنوان: | and |
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| المؤلفون: | Ronald A. Remillard, Dacheng Lin, All L. Cooper, Ramesh Narayan |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0509758v1.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: | 2005 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | We measure the rates of type I X-ray bursts from a likely complete sample of 37 non-pulsing Galactic X-ray transients observed with the RXTE ASM during 1996-2004. Pointed RXTE observations of these sources are used to identify bursts via timing and spectral criteria applied to PCA data. These X-ray transients have been classified as dynamical black hole binaries (9), black hole candidates (10), neutron-star systems (14), and type unknown (4), and 99 % of the PCA archive is distributed among the first three categories. Our strategy is to determine (i) whether the burst rates or upper limits, measured as a function of the bolometric luminosity, are consistent with the predictions of a burst model for accreting neutron stars and (ii) whether the rates measured in black hole systems are consistent with those expected for heavy compact objects with a solid surface, or if they in fact require true black holes with event horizons. The burst models we use are augmented versions of the models developed by Narayan & Heyl (2002; 2003). The selection of X-ray transients provides burst rate measurements over a wide range in source luminosity, and this target sample is one of the differences between the present study and the investigation of burst rates in the context of event horizons by Tournear et al. (2003). |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.257.479; http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0509758v1.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.257.479 http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0509758v1.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.57F008A |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |