Nature of X-ray binaries in the Magellanic Clouds Andry RAJOELIMANANA 1 , 2 (MSc) Supervisor : Prof Phil CHARLES 1 , 2 1 University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 2 South African Astronomical Observatory , P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa
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Nature of X-ray binaries in the Magellanic Clouds
Andry RAJOELIMANANA 1 , 2 (MSc)
Supervisor : Prof Phil CHARLES 1 , 2 1 University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 2 South African Astronomical Observatory , P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa
Outline
Introduction and Background to the project X-ray binaries : Why are we interested in Magellanic Clouds?
o 1.3 m Warsaw telescope o at Las Campanas observatory, Chileo Phase II : January 1997 - ~ Dec 2000o Phase III : June 2001 - until now
Method used
We combined the light curves from MACHO, OGLE II, and OGLEIII of all known BeX.
Macho data available from : http://wwwmacho.anu.edu.au/Data/MachoData.html OGLE II data : http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/ OGLE III data : http://ogle.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle3/xrom/xrom.html
Run Starlink PERIOD (package) to study their temporal properties.
Lomb-Scargle periodogram (Lomb, 1976) and (Scargle, 1982 )
• Super-orbital period : ~ 421 days• Formation and depletion of the Be equatorial disc
Alcock et al., 2001
Some results and findings
SXP6.85 (or XTE J0103-728)
Similar behaviour A0538-66 Peaks at P= 671 days
SXP293 (or RX J0058.2-7231)
Outbursts amplitude increases with the flux Orbital period Porb = 59 days
SXP293 (or RX J0058.2-7231)
Peak at a period Porb = 59 days
SXP756 (or AX J0049.4-7323, or RX J0049.7-7323)
Periodical outbursts near periastron passages
LMXB : Supersoft X-ray sources (SSS)
• TBB ~ 20-50 eV
• Lbol ~ 1037 - 1038 erg s-1
• SSS system : WD Sub-giant companion High accretion rate , > 10-7 Msun yrs-1
• WD burns H steadily at its surface• Contraction model : (Southwell et al., 1996)
accretion rate drops Optical luminosity decreases rise in Teff
increase in X-ray luminosity
• CAL 83 : X-ray emission occurs only during optical low state ( Grenier & Di Stefano, 2002)
CAL83 ( X-ray / optical correlation)
• X-ray data : ROSAT• Optical : MACHO ( blue )
Optical low X-ray on
Optical high X-ray off
Greiner & Di Stefano, 2002
Lightcurve of CAL83 and RXJ0513.9-6951 [MACHO+Ogle III]
Folded Lightcurve of CAL83 and RJX0513 with a P = 450 and 167 days , respectively
Power spectrum of CAL83 and RXJ0513.9-6951
Peaks at P = 450.24 days Peaks at P = 167.94 days
Future work
• Finding more sources showing similar behaviour to A0538-66 using OGLE III data.
• Why the compact object of all of these HMXBs are neutron star?• More understanding on the Supersoft X-ray binary• Investigating the variability of all these Be/X-ray pulsar if any of these has
a periodicity comparable to 162 days as seen in SS433.• Finding the next SS433-like (continuous and precessing jets[disc]) among
those HMXB in SMC .• Publish the result
SS433 properties
• SS433 : first known X-ray binary that emits relativistic jet • Only continuously emitting micro-quasar• Key feature : inclination : 79o e < 0.05 (Margon & Anderson 1989) Jet velocity : 0.26 d = 5.5 kpc (Blundell et al. 2004) Porb = 13.08 days Pprec = 162.5 days (Abell & Margon,1979)
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Ciatti et al., 1981
Conclusion
• Some BeX sources shows similar behaviour to A0538-66.• SSS CAL83 and RXJ0513.9-6951 show a variability in a timescale 450
days and 167.94 days respectively.• We still need more Ogle III data or other long term optical data for
some sources.• Investigation of the next SS433-like among those large number of
HMXB needs to be done
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