Exploring the Long-Term Evolution of GRS 1915+105

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العنوان: Exploring the Long-Term Evolution of GRS 1915+105
المؤلفون: Huppenkothen, D., Heil, L. M., Hogg, D. W., Müller, A.
المصدر: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017, Volume 466, Issue 2, p.2364-2377
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
الوصف: Among the population of known galactic black hole X-ray binaries, GRS 1915+105 stands out in multiple ways. It has been in continuous outburst since 1992, and has shown a wide range of different states that can be distinguished by their timing and spectral properties. These states, also observed in IGR J17091-3624, have in the past been linked to accretion dynamics. Here, we present the first comprehensive study into the long-term evolution of GRS 1915+105, using the entire data set observed with RXTE over its sixteen-year lifetime. We develop a set of descriptive features allowing for automatic separation of states, and show that supervised machine learning in the form of logistic regression and random forests can be used to efficiently classify the entire data set. For the first time, we explore the duty cycle and time evolution of states over the entire sixteen-year time span, and find that the temporal distribution of states has significantly changed over the span of the observations. We connect the machine classification with physical interpretations of the phenomenology in terms of chaotic and stochastic processes.
Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures; published in MNRAS; associated code and data at https://github.com/dhuppenkothen/BlackHoleML ; we welcome comments
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw3190
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01332
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1611.01332
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv