The correlations and anticorrelations in QPO data
Autor/ři
M. A. Abramowicz, D. Barret, M. Bursa, J. Horák, W. Kluźniak, P. Rebusco, G. Török
Publikováno
Astronomische Nachrichten, (2005), vol. 9, p. 864-866
Rok
2005
Abstrakt
Double peak kHz QPO frequencies in neutron star sources varies in time by a factor of hundreds Hz while in microquasar sources the frequencies are fixed and located at the line nu_2 = 1.5 nu_1 in the frequency-frequency plot. The crucial question in the theory of twin HFQPOs is whether or not those observed in neutron-star systems are essentially different from those observed in black holes. In black hole systems the twin HFQPOs are known to be in a 3:2 ratio for each source. At first sight, this seems not to be the case for neutron stars. For each individual neutron star, the upper and lower kHz QPO frequencies, nu_2 and nu_1, are linearly correlated, nu_2 = Anu_1 + B, with the slope A < 1.5, i.e., the frequencies definitely are not in a 1.5 ratio. In this contribution we show that when considered jointly on a frequency-frequency plot, the data for the twin kHz QPO frequencies in several (as opposed to one) neutron stars uniquely pick out a certain preferred frequency ratio that is equal to 1.5 for the six sources examined so far.
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