Studying radiation of a white dwarf star falling on a black hole
Abstract
We investigate electromagnetic and gravitational radiation generated during a process of the tidal stripping of a white dwarf star circulating a black hole. We model a white dwarf star by a Bose-Fermi droplet at zero temperature and use the quantum hydrodynamic equations to simulate evolution of a black hole-white dwarf binary system. While going through the periastron, the white dwarf looses a small fraction of its mass. The mass falling onto a black hole is a source of powerful electromagnetic and gravitational radiation. Bursts of ultraluminous radiation are flared at each periastron passage. This resembles the recurrent flaring of X-ray sources discovered recently by Irwin et al.. Gravitational energy bursts occur mainly through emission at very low frequencies. The accretion disc, formed due to stripping of a white dwarf, starts at some point to contribute continuously to radiation of both electromagnetic and gravitational type.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2022
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2208.11525
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2208.11525
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220811525K
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 5 figures. Just minor text corrections to avoid text overlap with our previous article arXiv:1907.12419. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D