http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3372
Simultaneous excitation of low-frequency eccentric precessing mode (one-armed p-mode) and tilt mode on tidally deformed disks is considered. If the orbit of the secondary star is eccentric and its orbital plane is misaligned with the disk plane of the primary, the above-mentioned two low-frequency oscillation modes are simultaneously excited on the primary disk, the former having prograte precession and the latter having retrograde precession. This excitation of disk oscillations is due to a wave-wave resonant excitation process considered by Kato (2013). If parameter values relevant to Be/X-ray binary systems are adopted, the periods of these excited oscillations are around ten times of the orbital period of the secondary, which may be comparable with the time scale of giant outbursts observed in Be/X-ray systems.
S. Kato
Thu, 15 May 14
24/55
Comments: 20 pages, 5 figures (to be published in PASJ 66, 2014)
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