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A&A
Volume 572, December 2014
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Article Number | A79 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Astrophysical processes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201424407 | |
Published online | 01 December 2014 |
Super-spinning compact objects and models of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations observed in Galactic microquasars
Institute of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava, Bezručovo nám. 13, 74601 Opava, Czech Republic
e-mail: gabriel.torok@physics.cz
Received: 15 June 2014
Accepted: 13 October 2014
We have previously applied several models of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) to estimate the spin of the central Kerr black hole in the three Galactic microquasars, GRS 1915+105, GRO J1655-40, and XTE J1550-564. Here we explore the alternative possibility that the central compact body is a super-spinning object (or a naked singularity) with the external space-time described by Kerr geometry with a dimensionless spin parameter a ≡ cJ/GM2> 1. We calculate the relevant spin intervals for a subset of HF QPO models considered in the previous study. Our analysis indicates that for all but one of the considered models there exists at least one interval of a> 1 that is compatible with constraints given by the ranges of the central compact object mass independently estimated for the three sources. For most of the models, the inferred values of a are several times higher than the extreme Kerr black hole value a = 1. These values may be too high since the spin of superspinars is often assumed to rapidly decrease due to accretion when a ≫ 1. In this context, we conclude that only the epicyclic and the Keplerian resonance model provides estimates that are compatible with the expectation of just a small deviation from a = 1.
Key words: X-rays: binaries / black hole physics / accretion, accretion disks
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