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Title:
Viscous effects on the interaction between the coplanar decretion disc and the neutron star in Be/X-ray binaries
Authors:
Okazaki, A. T.; Bate, M. R.; Ogilvie, G. I.; Pringle, J. E.
Publication:
Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 337, Issue 3, pp. 967-980. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
12/2002
Origin:
MNRAS
Astronomy Keywords:
accretion, accretion discs, hydrodynamics, instabilities, binaries: close, stars: emission-line, Be, X-rays: stars
DOI:
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05960.x
Bibliographic Code:
2002MNRAS.337..967O

Abstract

We study the viscous effects on the interaction between the coplanar Be-star disc and the neutron star in Be/X-ray binaries, using a three-dimensional, smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. For simplicity, we assume the Be disc to be isothermal at the temperature of half the stellar effective temperature. In order to mimic the gas ejection process from the Be star, we inject particles with the Keplerian rotation velocity at a radius just outside the star. Both the Be star and the neutron star are treated as point masses. We find that the Be-star disc is effectively truncated if the Shakura-Sunyaev viscosity parameter αSS<< 1, which confirms the previous semi-analytical result. In the truncated disc, the material decreted from the Be star accumulates, so that the disc becomes denser more rapidly than if around an isolated Be star. The resonant truncation of the Be disc results in a significant reduction of the amount of gas captured by the neutron star and a strong dependence of the mass-capture rate on the orbital phase. We also find that an eccentric mode is excited in the Be disc through direct driving as a result of a one-armed bar potential of the binary. The strength of the mode becomes greater in the case of a smaller viscosity. In a high-resolution simulation with αSS= 0.1, the eccentric mode is found to precess in a prograde sense. The mass-capture rate by the neutron star modulates as the mode precesses.

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