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| author | Katz, Jonathan I. Nowak, Michael A. |
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| contents | It has long been suggested that X-ray transients are produced at periastron of stellar-compact object binaries with eccentric orbits. Recoil of matter evaporated from the star by X-rays from matter transferred at periastron increases the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity. After periastrons the object would be a transient X-ray source, a Galactic analogue of a tidal disruption event (TDE), but recurrent with a gradually increasing period rather than catastrophic. |
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| spellingShingle | Transient X-ray Sources as Extremely Eccentric Mass-Transfer Binaries with Compact Companions Katz, Jonathan I. Nowak, Michael A. High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics It has long been suggested that X-ray transients are produced at periastron of stellar-compact object binaries with eccentric orbits. Recoil of matter evaporated from the star by X-rays from matter transferred at periastron increases the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity. After periastrons the object would be a transient X-ray source, a Galactic analogue of a tidal disruption event (TDE), but recurrent with a gradually increasing period rather than catastrophic. |
| title | Transient X-ray Sources as Extremely Eccentric Mass-Transfer Binaries with Compact Companions |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23474 |