Decade time-scale modulation of low mass X-ray binaries Export

@article{citeulike:5718705, abstract = {Regular observations by the All Sky Monitor aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite have yielded well-sampled light-curves with a time baseline of over ten years. We find that up to eight of the sixteen brightest persistent low mass X-ray binaries show significant, possible sinusoidal, variations with periods of order ten years. We speculate on its possible origin and prevalence in the population of low mass X-ray binaries and we find the presence of a third object in the system, or long-period variability intrinsic to the donor star, as being attractive origins for the X-ray flux modulation we detect. For some of the objects in which we do not detect a signal, there is substantial short-term variation which may hide modest modulation on long time-scales. Decade time-scale modulations may thus be even more common.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Durant, Martin and Cornelisse, Remon and Remillard, Ron and Levine, Alan}, citeulike-article-id = {5718705}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0444}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.0444}, day = {2}, eprint = {0909.0444}, keywords = {binary\_system, data\_analysis, lmxb, time-series, x-rays}, month = {Sep}, posted-at = {2009-09-03 16:58:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Decade time-scale modulation of low mass X-ray binaries}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0444}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5718705 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5718705 N2 - Regular observations by the All Sky Monitor aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite have yielded well-sampled light-curves with a time baseline of over ten years. We find that up to eight of the sixteen brightest persistent low mass X-ray binaries show significant, possible sinusoidal, variations with periods of order ten years. We speculate on its possible origin and prevalence in the population of low mass X-ray binaries and we find the presence of a third object in the system, or long-period variability intrinsic to the donor star, as being attractive origins for the X-ray flux modulation we detect. For some of the objects in which we do not detect a signal, there is substantial short-term variation which may hide modest modulation on long time-scales. Decade time-scale modulations may thus be even more common. TI - Decade time-scale modulation of low mass X-ray binaries KW - binary_system KW - data_analysis KW - lmxb KW - time-series KW - x-rays AU - Durant, Martin AU - Cornelisse, Remon AU - Remillard, Ron AU - Levine, Alan PY - 2009/Sep/02/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0444 ER -