Gravitationally Redshifted Absorption Lines in the X-Ray Burst Spectra NTHU2008.01.03 Lu, Ting-Ni.

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Gravitationally Redshifted Absorption Lines in the X-Ray Burst Spectra NTHU Lu, Ting-Ni

X-ray burst a neutron star and an accreting companion a neutron star and an accreting companion Type I X-ray burst has a sharp rise followed by a slow and gradual decline of the luminosity profile Type I X-ray burst has a sharp rise followed by a slow and gradual decline of the luminosity profile Type II X-ray burst exhibits a quick pulse shape and may have many fast burst separated by minutes Type II X-ray burst exhibits a quick pulse shape and may have many fast burst separated by minutes

Determine properties of neutron stars measuring the gravitational redshift of spectral lines produced in the surface of neutron stars

Previous Observation - Previous Observation - EXO Cottam et al. (2002) reported features in the burst spectra of EXO which they interpreted as gravitationally redshifted absorption lines of Fe xxvi during the early phase of the bursts, and Fe xxv and perhaps O viii during the late phase The lines would then all have a gravitational redshift of z = 0.35, which would correspond to a neutron star in the mass range of 1.4 – 1.8 M๏ and in the radius range of 9 – 12 km.

Obs. Results of GS Light curve of 16 X-ray bursts from GS

Obs. Results of GS Representative burst profile (top) and temperature profile (bottom) from GS as observed with EPIC-pn.

Obs. Results of GS Correlation between the blackbody temperatures and count rates of all bursts detected with EPIC-pn.

Obs. Results of GS XMM-Newton RGS average background-subtracted spectra for 16 X-ray bursts from GS The three temperature phases are defined according to the spectral fits with the EPIC-pn data. An absorbed blackbody model is superimposed in red. The Ne x line at 12.1 (with 3.4 σ confidence) Å is included in the low-temperature spectrum.

Discussion The follow-up observations of EXO have failed to again reveal absorption lines from the stellar surface (Cottam et al. 2007)

Discussion Absorption features in burst spectra are very sensitive to the accretion rate, temperatures, density, and rotation frequency of the neutron star (Bildsten et al. 2003; Chang et al. 2005, 2006). Temperature of the burst spectra

Discussion Rotational broadening: 1) 1) Chang et al. (2005) calculated that for an edge-on neutron star with a rotation rate >200 Hz, the absorption features would become undetectable. 2) Chang et al. (2006) also showed that if a rapidly rotating neutron star is seen face-on, the spectral lines will be narrower.

Discussion Chemical composition of the atmosphere. The possibility that the lines seen in EXO are not gravitational redshifted iron lines from the surface.

Reference Albert K. H. Kong, Jon M. Miller, Mariano Me´ndez, Jean Cottam, Walter H. G. Lewin, Frederik Paerels, Erik Kuulkers, Rudy Wijnands, and Michiel van der Klis 2007, ApJ, 670, L17 – L20 Cottam, J., Paerels, F., & Mendez, M. 2002, Nature, 420, 51 Cottam, J., Paerels, F., Mendez, M, Boirin, L., Lewin, W. H. G., Kuulkers, E., & Miller, J. M. 2007, ApJ, in press (arXiv: )

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