Quiescent Light Curve of Accreting Neutron Star MAXI J0556-332

Autor:	Liu, Helei, Matsuo, Yasuhide, Hashimoto, Masa-aki, Noda, Tsuneo, Fujimoto, Masayuki Y.
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.7566/JPSJ.86.123901
Popis:	MAXI J0556-332 is the hottest transient accreting neutron star at the beginning of its quiescence. A theoretical model with crustal heating indicates that an additional shallow heat source of Qshallow > 6 MeV per accreted nucleon is required in the shallow outer crust with respect to the deeper star crust by considering the observed decline in accretion rate at the end of outburst. However, the physical source of this shallow heating is still unclear. In the present investigation, we performed stellar evolutionary calculations, adopting the effects of outburst behavior of the accretion rate. As a consequence, we find that the quiescent light curve of MAXI J0556-332 can be well explained by the nuclear energy generation due to the hot CNO cycle. Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01734 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv