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Effect of Photon Rocket in X-ray Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

V. D. Pal’shin
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya, 26, 194021 St.Petersburg, Russia
A. I. Tsygan
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya, 26, 194021 St.Petersburg, Russia

Abstract

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It is shown that X-ray binaries can be accelerated by their own radiation. It is possible if the magnetic field of a neutron star in a binary differs from the dipolar field. Asymmetric X-ray emission generated due to accretion of matter onto a neutron star surface creates an accelerating force. Its magnitude can be comparable or even larger than gravitational attraction of the binary to the Galaxy.

Type
Part 9. Population and Neutron Star Properties
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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