A model of the rapid burster
Abstract
A new burst mode of MXB 1730 - 335, the rapid burster, as discovered by Hakucho in August 1979, is characterized by a train of long X-ray bursts whose behaviour is dictated by the accretion rate. In this mode the burst luminosity reaches the Eddington limit, so that the X-ray pressure controls the accretion from a reservoir in the magnetopause and accretion columns in the polar regions explain general features of the rapid burster observed in August 1979.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(81)90186-1
- Bibcode:
- 1981AdSpR...1m.145H
- Keywords:
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- Neutron Stars;
- Stellar Models;
- X Ray Astronomy;
- X Ray Stars;
- Modal Response;
- Ring Currents;
- Stellar Mass Accretion;
- Time Response;
- Astrophysics