X-ray irradiation of the stellar wind in HMXBs with B supergiants: Implications for ULXs

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985815%3A_____%2F22%3A00556343" target="_blank" >RIV/67985815:_____/22:00556343 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126397

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142502" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142502</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142502" target="_blank" >10.1051/0004-6361/202142502</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

X-ray irradiation of the stellar wind in HMXBs with B supergiants: Implications for ULXs

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

We study the effect of X-ray ionization on the stellar wind of B supergiants. We determine the binary parameters for which the X-ray irradiation significantly influences the stellar wind. This can be conveniently studied in diagrams that plot the optical depth parameter versus the X-ray luminosity. For low optical depths or for high X-ray luminosities, X-ray ionization leads to a disruption in the wind aimed toward the X-ray source. Observational parameters of high-mass X-ray binaries with B-supergiant components appear outside the wind disruption zone. The X-ray feedback determines the resulting X-ray luminosity. We recognize two states with a different level of feedback. For low X-ray luminosities, ionization is weak, and the wind is not disrupted by X-rays and flows at large velocities, consequently the accretion rate is relatively low. On the other hand, for high X-ray luminosities, the X-ray ionization disrupts the flow braking the acceleration, the wind velocity is low, and the accretion rate becomes high. These effects determine the X-ray luminosity of individual binaries. Accounting for the X-ray feedback, estimated X-ray luminosities reasonably agree with observational values. We study the effect of small-scale wind inhomogeneities (clumping), showing that clumping weakens the effect of X-ray ionization by increasing recombination and the mass-loss rate. This effect is particularly important in the region of the so-called bistability jump. We show that ultraluminous X-ray binaries with LX less than or similar to 10(40) erg s(-1) may be powered by accretion of a B-supergiant wind on a massive black hole.

Název v anglickém jazyce

X-ray irradiation of the stellar wind in HMXBs with B supergiants: Implications for ULXs

Popis výsledku anglicky

We study the effect of X-ray ionization on the stellar wind of B supergiants. We determine the binary parameters for which the X-ray irradiation significantly influences the stellar wind. This can be conveniently studied in diagrams that plot the optical depth parameter versus the X-ray luminosity. For low optical depths or for high X-ray luminosities, X-ray ionization leads to a disruption in the wind aimed toward the X-ray source. Observational parameters of high-mass X-ray binaries with B-supergiant components appear outside the wind disruption zone. The X-ray feedback determines the resulting X-ray luminosity. We recognize two states with a different level of feedback. For low X-ray luminosities, ionization is weak, and the wind is not disrupted by X-rays and flows at large velocities, consequently the accretion rate is relatively low. On the other hand, for high X-ray luminosities, the X-ray ionization disrupts the flow braking the acceleration, the wind velocity is low, and the accretion rate becomes high. These effects determine the X-ray luminosity of individual binaries. Accounting for the X-ray feedback, estimated X-ray luminosities reasonably agree with observational values. We study the effect of small-scale wind inhomogeneities (clumping), showing that clumping weakens the effect of X-ray ionization by increasing recombination and the mass-loss rate. This effect is particularly important in the region of the so-called bistability jump. We show that ultraluminous X-ray binaries with LX less than or similar to 10(40) erg s(-1) may be powered by accretion of a B-supergiant wind on a massive black hole.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/LM2018140" target="_blank" >LM2018140: e-Infrastruktura CZ</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Astronomy & Astrophysics

ISSN

0004-6361

e-ISSN

1432-0746

Svazek periodika

659

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

March

Stát vydavatele periodika

FR - Francouzská republika

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

A117

Kód UT WoS článku

000769069100007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85126831981