2008ApJ...673L..51F -
Astrophys. J., 673, L51-L54 (2008/January-3)
Lithium production on a low-mass secondary in a black hole soft X-ray transient.
FUJIMOTO S.-I., MATSUBA R. and ARAI K.
Abstract (from CDS):
We examine production of Li on the surface of a low-mass secondary in a black hole soft X-ray transient (BHSXT) through the spallation of CNO nuclei by neutrons which are ejected from a hot (>10 MeV) advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) around the black hole. Using updated binary parameters, cross sections of neutron-induced spallation reactions, and mass accretion rates in ADAFs derived from the spectrum fitting of multiwavelength observations of quiescent BHSXTs, we obtain the equilibrium abundances of Li by equating the production rate of Li and the mass transfer rate through accretion to the black hole. The resulting abundances are found to be in good agreement with the observed values in seven BHSXTs. We note that the abundances vary on a timescale longer than a few months in our model. Moreover, the isotopic ratio 6Li/7Li is calculated to be about 0.7-0.8 on the secondaries, which is much higher than the ratio measured in meteorites. Detection of such a high value is favorable to the production of Li via spallation and the existence of a hot accretion flow, rather than an accretion disk corona system in quiescent BHSXTs.
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Accretion, Accretion Disks - Black Hole Physics - Nuclear Reactions, Nucleosynthesis, Abundances - Stars: Abundances
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