The Impacts of Neutron-Star Structure and Base Heating on Type I X-Ray Bursts and Code Comparison

Abstract

Type I X-ray bursts are rapidly brightening phenomena triggered by thermonuclear burning on accreting layer of a neutron star (NS). The light curves represent the physical properties of NSs and the nuclear reactions on the proton-rich nuclei. The numerical treatments of the accreting NS and physics of the NS interior are not established, which shows uncertainty in modelling for observed X-ray light curves. In this study, we investigate theoretical X-ray-burst models, compared with burst light curves with GS~1826-24 observations. We focus on the impacts of the NS mass, the NS radius, and base-heating on the NS surface using the MESA code. We find a monotonic correlation between the NS mass and the parameters of the light curve. The higher the mass, the longer the recurrence time and the greater the peak luminosity. While the larger the radius, the longer the recurrence time, the peak luminosity remains nearly constant. In the case of increasing base heating, both the recurrence time and peak luminosity decrease. We also examine the above results using with a different numerical code, HERES, based on general relativity and consider the central NS. We find that the burst rate, burst energy and burst strength are almost same in two X-ray burst codes by adjusting the base-heat parameter in MESA (the relative errors $\lesssim 5\%$), while the duration time and the rise time are significantly different between (the relative error is possibly $\sim 50\%$). The peak luminosity and the e-folding time are ragged between two codes for different accretion rates.

arXiv comment14 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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