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Detection of simultaneous QPO triplets in 4U 1728-34 and constraining the neutron star mass and moment of inertia
| العنوان: | Detection of simultaneous QPO triplets in 4U 1728-34 and constraining the neutron star mass and moment of inertia |
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| المؤلفون: | Anand, Kewal, Misra, Ranjeev, Yadav, J. S., Jain, Pankaj, Kumar, Umang, Bhattacharya, Dipankar |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| الوصف: | We report simultaneous detection of twin kHz and $\sim 40$ Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the time-resolved analysis of the AstroSat/LAXPC observation of the neutron star low mass X-ray binary, 4U 1728-34. The frequencies of the multiple sets of triplets are correlated with each other and are consistent with their identification as the orbital, periastron and twice the nodal precessions frequencies. The observed relations, along with the known spin of the neutron star, put constraints on the mass and the ratio of moment of inertia to the mass of the neutron star to be $M^*_\odot = 1.92\pm 0.01$ and $I_{45}/M^*_\odot = 1.07\pm 0.01$ under the simplistic assumption that the metric is a Kerr one. We crudely estimate that the mass and moment of inertia values obtained may differ by about 1 % and 5 %, respectively, if a self-consistent metric is invoked. Using the TOV equations for computing the moment of inertia of a neutron star in slow rotation approximation, having different equations of state, we find that the predicted values of neutron star parameters favor stiffer equations of state. We expect more stringent constraints would be obtained using a more detailed treatment, where the EOS-dependent metric is used to compute the expected frequencies rather than the Kerr metric used here. The results provide insight into both the nature of these QPOs and the neutron star interior. Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09546 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2404.09546 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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