Average bolometric corrections and optical to X-ray flux measurements as a function of accretion rate for X-ray binaries

Abstract

In this paper we use an RXTE library of spectral models from 10 black-hole and 9 pulsar X-ray binaries, as well as model spectra available in the literature from 13 extra-galactic Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). We compute average bolometric corrections (BC=${\mathrm{L}}_{\mathrm{band}}/{\mathrm{L}}_{\mathrm{bol}}$) for our sample as a function of different accretion rates. We notice the same behaviour between black-hole and pulsars BCs only when ULX pulsars are included. These measurements provide a picture of the energetics of the accretion flow for an X-ray binary based solely on its observed luminosity in a given band. Moreover it can be a powerful tool in X-ray binary population synthesis models. Furthermore we calculate the X-ray (2-10 keV) to optical (V-band) flux ratios at different Eddington ratios for the black-hole X-ray binaries in our sample. This provides a metric of the maximum contribution of the disk to the optical emission of a binary system and better constraints on its nature (donor type etc). We find that the optical to X-ray flux ratio shows very little variation as a function of accretion rate, but testing for different disk geometries scenarios we find that the optical contribution of the disk increases as the $p$ value decreases ($T(r)\sim r^{-p}$). Moreover observational data are in agreement with a thicker disk scenario ($p<0.65$), which could also possibly explain the lack of observed high-inclination systems.

arXiv comment16 pages, 6 figures, 14 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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