- Author
- Year
- 1990
- Title
- Constraints on the inner accretion flow of 4U/MXB 1636-53 (V 801 Arae) from a comparison of X-ray burst and persistent emission
- Journal
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Volume | Issue number
- 233 | 1
- Pages (from-to)
- 121-136
- Number of pages
- 16
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
- Abstract
-
A detailed analysis is presented of the importance of Comptonization in burst and persistent spectra of the low-mass X-ray binary 4U/MXB 1636-53, and from this analysis it is inferred that the inner accretion flow is geometrically thin. It is found that burst spectra of 1636-53 are very nearly Planckian in shape; from an upper limit to a high-energy excess in these spectra it is inferred that the Thomson scattering optical depth of a possible intervening hot cloud must be less than 1 during bursts, and that the Compton y parameter of that cloud must be less than 0.5. During persistent emission, Thomson optical depth of 4-8, an electron temperature of 2-5 keV, and a value of 0.8-1.1 for y are inferred.
- Link
- Final publisher version
- Language
- English
- Related publication
- Erratum - constraints on the inner accretion flow of 4u / MXB:1636-53 V801-ARAE from a comparison of X-ray burst and persistent emission
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.423715
- Downloads
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Wijers_Constraints_Inner_Accretion.pdf(Final published version)
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