Nonlinear Resonance in the Accretion Disk of a Millisecond Pulsar

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Published 2004 February 17 © 2004. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A.
, , Citation W. Kluźniak et al 2004 ApJ 603 L89 DOI 10.1086/383143

1538-4357/603/2/L89

Abstract

Two simultaneous frequencies of quasi-periodic millisecond modulation of the X-ray flux (twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations) have recently been detected in an accreting 2.5 ms X-ray pulsar. Their difference, equal to about of the neutron star spin rate, clearly indicates that resonant oscillations of the accretion disk have been observed. Similar nonlinear resonances may be spontaneously excited in the accretion disk in the absence of a pulsar, e.g., in black holes. We identify modes of disk oscillations whose frequencies are in agreement with the two observed ones when the rotating neutron star is modeled with realistic equations of state.

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