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Luna, G.J.M.; Mukai, K.; Sokoloski, J.L.; Lucy, A.B.; Cusumano, G.; Segreto, A.; Jaque Arancibia, M.; Nuñez, N.E.; Puebla, R.E.; Nelson, T.; Walter, F. "X-ray, UV, and optical observations of the accretion disk and boundary layer in the symbiotic star RT Crucis" (2018) Astronomy and Astrophysics. 616
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Abstract:

Compared to mass transfer in cataclysmic variables, the nature of accretion in symbiotic binaries in which red giants transfer material to white dwarfs (WDs) has been difficult to uncover. The accretion flows in a symbiotic binary are most clearly observable, however, when there is no quasi-steady shell burning on the WD to hide them. RT Cru is the prototype of such non-burning symbiotics, with its hard (δ-type) X-ray emission providing a view of its innermost accretion structures. In the past 20 yr, RT Cru has experienced two similar optical brightening events, separated by ∼ 4000 days and with amplitudes of ΔV ∼ 1.5 mag. After Swift became operative, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) detector revealed a hard X-ray brightening event almost in coincidence with the second optical peak. Spectral and timing analyses of multi-wavelength observations that we describe here, from NuSTAR, Suzaku, Swift/X-Ray Telescope (XRT) + BAT + UltraViolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) (photometry) and optical photometry and spectroscopy, indicate that accretion proceeds through a disk that reaches down to the WD surface. The scenario in which a massive, magnetic WD accretes from a magnetically truncated accretion disk is not supported. For example, none of our data show the minute-time-scale periodic modulations (with tight upper limits from X-ray data) expected from a spinning, magnetic WD. Moreover, the similarity of the UV and X-ray fluxes, as well as the approximate constancy of the hardness ratio within the BAT band, indicate that the boundary layer of the accretion disk remained optically thin to its own radiation throughout the brightening event, during which the rate of accretion onto the WD increased to 6.7 × 10 -9 M · yr -1 (d/2 kpc) 2 . For the first time from a WD symbiotic, the NuSTAR spectrum showed a Compton reflection hump at E > 10 keV, due to hard X-rays from the boundary layer reflecting off of the surface of the WD; the reflection amplitude was 0.77 ± 0.21. The best fit spectral model, including reflection, gave a maximum post-shock temperature of kT = 53 ± 4 keV, which implies a WD mass of 1.25 ± 0.02 M · . Although the long-term optical variability in RT Cru is reminiscent of dwarf-novae-type outbursts, the hard X-ray behavior does not correspond to that observed in well-known dwarf nova. An alternative explanation for the brightening events could be that they are due to an enhancement of the accretion rate as the WD travels through the red giant wind in a wide orbit, with a period of about ∼4000 days. In either case, the constancy of the hard X-ray spectrum while the accretion rate rose suggests that the accretion-rate threshold between a mostly optically thin and thick boundary layer, in this object, may be higher than previously thought. © 2018 ESO.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:X-ray, UV, and optical observations of the accretion disk and boundary layer in the symbiotic star RT Crucis
Autor:Luna, G.J.M.; Mukai, K.; Sokoloski, J.L.; Lucy, A.B.; Cusumano, G.; Segreto, A.; Jaque Arancibia, M.; Nuñez, N.E.; Puebla, R.E.; Nelson, T.; Walter, F.
Filiación:CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Astronomía y Física Del Espacio, (IAFE), Av. Inte. Güiraldes 2620, Buenos Aires, C1428ZAA, Argentina
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Av. Calchaquí 6200, F. Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina
INAF-Osservatorio di Padova, Vicolo dell Osservatorio 5, Padova, 35122, Italy
CRESST and X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States
Columbia Astrophysics Lab, Columbia University, 1027 Pupin Hall, MC 5247, 550 W120th St., New York, NY 10027, United States
INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via U. La Malfa 153, Palermo, 90146, Italy
Instituto de Ciencias Astronómicas, De la Tierra y Del Espacio (ICATE-CONICET), Av. España Sur 1512, San Juan, J5402DSP, Argentina
Departamento de Física y Astronomía, Universidad de la Serena, Av. Cisternas 1200, La Serena, Chile
Facultad de Ingeniería, Ciencias Físicas y Matemática, Universidad Central Del Ecuador, Alejandro Valdez y la Gasca/Ciudadela Universitaria, Quito, Ecuador
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States
Palabras clave:Accretion, accretion disks; Binaries: symbiotic; X-rays: binaries; Binary alloys; Boundary layers; Giant stars; Mass transfer; Photometry; White dwarfs; X rays; Accretion , accretion disks; Binaries: symbiotic; Burst alert telescopes; Cataclysmic variables; Optical observations; Reflection amplitude; Ultraviolet optical telescopes; X-rays: Binaries; X ray detectors
Año:2018
Volumen:616
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832592
Título revista:Astronomy and Astrophysics
Título revista abreviado:Astron. Astrophys.
ISSN:00046361
CODEN:AAEJA
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00046361_v616_n_p_Luna

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Luna, G.J.M., Mukai, K., Sokoloski, J.L., Lucy, A.B., Cusumano, G., Segreto, A., Jaque Arancibia, M.,..., Walter, F. (2018) . X-ray, UV, and optical observations of the accretion disk and boundary layer in the symbiotic star RT Crucis. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 616.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832592
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Luna, G.J.M., Mukai, K., Sokoloski, J.L., Lucy, A.B., Cusumano, G., Segreto, A., et al. "X-ray, UV, and optical observations of the accretion disk and boundary layer in the symbiotic star RT Crucis" . Astronomy and Astrophysics 616 (2018).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832592
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Luna, G.J.M., Mukai, K., Sokoloski, J.L., Lucy, A.B., Cusumano, G., Segreto, A., et al. "X-ray, UV, and optical observations of the accretion disk and boundary layer in the symbiotic star RT Crucis" . Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 616, 2018.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832592
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Luna, G.J.M., Mukai, K., Sokoloski, J.L., Lucy, A.B., Cusumano, G., Segreto, A., et al. X-ray, UV, and optical observations of the accretion disk and boundary layer in the symbiotic star RT Crucis. Astron. Astrophys. 2018;616.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832592