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2014ApJ...786..119L - Astrophys. J., 786, 119 (2014/May-2)

The accretion rate independence of horizontal branch oscillation in XTE J1701-462.

LI Z., CHEN L., QU J., BU Q., WANG D. and XU R.

Abstract (from CDS):

We study the temporal and energy spectral properties of the unique neutron star low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701-462. Assuming the horizontal branch/normal branch (HB/NB) vertex as a reference position of the accretion rate, the horizontal branch oscillation (HBO) of the HB/NB vertex is roughly 50 Hz. It indicates that the HBO is independent of the accretion rate or the source intensity. The spectral analysis shows Rin ∝ {dot}MDisk2.9±0.09 in the HB/NB vertex and Rin ∝ {dot}MDisk1.7±0.06 in the NB/flaring branch (FB) vertex, which implies that different accretion rates may be produced in the HB/NB and NB/FB vertex. The Comptonization component could be fitted by a constrained broken power law or nthComp. Unlike GX 17+2, the frequencies of HBO positively correlate with the inner disk radius, which contradict with the prediction of the Lense-Thirring precession model. XTE J1701-462, both in the Cyg-like phase and in the Sco-like phase, follows a positive correlation between the break frequency of broadband noise and the characteristic frequency of HBO, which is called the W-K relation. An anticorrelation between the frequency of HBO and photon energy is observed. Moreover, the rms of HBO increases with photon energy until ∼10 keV. We discuss the possible origin of HBO from the corona in XTE J1701-462.

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Journal keyword(s): binaries: general - stars: individual: XTE J1701-462 - stars: neutron - X-rays: binaries - X-rays: individual: XTE J1701-462

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