Simulations of flux variability of oscillating accretion fluid tori around Kerr black holes
Abstract
High frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) are observed in the X-ray power-density spectra (PDS) of several microquasars and low mass X-ray binaries. Many proposed QPO models are based on oscillations of accretion toroidal fluid structures orbiting in the vicinity of a compact object. We study oscillating accretion tori orbiting in the vicinity of a Kerr black hole. We demonstrate that significant variation of the observed flux can be caused by the combination of radial and vertical oscillation modes of a slender, polytropic, perfect fluid, non-self-graviting torus with constant specific angular momentum. We investigate two combinations of the oscillating modes corresponding to the direct resonance QPO model and the modified relativistic precession QPO model.
- Publication:
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Extragalactic Jets from Every Angle
- Pub Date:
- March 2015
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1412.7292
- Bibcode:
- 2015IAUS..313..380B
- Keywords:
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- X-rays: binaries;
- stars: neutron;
- black hole physics;
- accretion;
- accretion disks;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- To appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 313: "Extragalactic jets from every angle," Galapagos, Ecuador, 15-19 September 2014, F. Massaro, C. C. Cheung, E. Lopez, and A. Siemiginowska (Eds.), Cambridge University Press