Speaker
Kateřina Klimovičová
(SLU)
Description
Low-mass X-ray binaries containing neutron stars exhibit rapid changes of the X-ray flux on timescales corresponding to hundreds of hertz. It is often assumed that an oscillating accretion torus is responsible for this effect. Within this paradigm, we model and ray-trace the torus in the vicinity of the star and analyze the resulting light curves.
Primary author
Kateřina Klimovičová
(SLU)