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Mean a400

This page presents lightcurves for Mean a400 produced using the KEPLER simulation code, and analysed following Lampe, Heger & Galloway (2015).

The curve presented here is as measured in the neutron star's Newtonian rest frame. To compare this to an observation it is necessary to apply redshift corrections. Instructions for doing this are provided in the companion paper and a summary is provided here

This averaged lightcurve comes from a train of 19 bursts that can be viewed here


Lightcurve

The mean luminosity (green line, left-hand y-axis), is plotted with the lighter green band giving the 1-sigma error calculated from the variation in the lightcurves included in the average. The radius is shown in blue (right-hand y-axis)


Parameters

The following table presents the initial conditions for the model and if a burst occurred, the average burst parameters.

NameValueUnitDescription
modela400--Model ID
num19--Number of simulated bursts
z20.0%Metallicity mass fraction
h20.8%Hydrogen mass fraction
lAcc0.2--Accretion luminosity (1)
burstLength17.1 ± 0.8sBurst duration
peakLum46.32 ± 2.1910+30WPeak lumonisity
persLum1.92 ± 0.0610+28WPersistent luminsoity
fluence1.71 ± 0.0610+32WFluence
tau3.7 ± 0.2sEquivalent burst duration (tau)
tDel2.05 ± 0.03hRecurrence time
conv-0.94 ± 10.44%Convexity
r10900.185 ± 0.128s10% rise time
r25900.138 ± 0.104s25% rise time
singAlpha8.25 ± 0.49--Power law decay index
singDecay1.33 ± 0.07sExponential decay timescale
alpha178.4 ± 4.0--Fluence ratio (alpha)
flag10--Analysis quality flag (2)

(1) The accretion rate is in terms of the Eddington accretion rate $(1.75 \times 10^{-8} \, \mathrm{M}_\odot \, \mathrm{yr}^{-1})$

(2) Guide To Analyis Flags

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