X-rays from quiescent low-mass X-ray binary transients

Authors
Citation
Jp. Lasota, X-rays from quiescent low-mass X-ray binary transients, ASTRON ASTR, 360(2), 2000, pp. 575-582
Citations number
98
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
ISSN journal
00046361 → ACNP
Volume
360
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
575 - 582
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6361(20000810)360:2<575:XFQLXB>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
I argue that it is very unlikely that X-rays from quiescent black-hole low- mass X-ray binary transients are emitted by coronae of companion stars. I s how that in a simple model in which these X-rays are emitted by an ADAF fil ling the inner part of an unsteady, dwarf-nova type disc, the X-ray luminos ity is correlated with the orbital period. I predict what values of X-ray l uminosities from black-hole transient systems should be observed by Chandra and XMM-Newton.