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Magnetically Driven Warping and Precession of Accretion Disks: Implications for Exotic Stellar Variabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Dong Lai
Dong Lai*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Abstract

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The inner region of the accretion disk around a magnetized star is subjected to magnetic torques that induce warping and precession of the disk. These torques arise from interactions between the stellar field and the induced electric currents in the disk. These novel magnetic effects give rise to some “exotic” stellar variabilities, and may play an important role in explaining a number of puzzling behaviors related to disk accretion onto magnetic stars, such as mHz QPOs in X-ray pulsars, long-term periodicities of X-ray binaries (including precession of jets), low-Frequency (10-50 Hz) QPO’s in low-mass X-ray binaries, and photometric variabilities of T Tauri stars.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 187: Exotic Stars as Challenges to Evolution , 2002 , pp. 215 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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