Bibcode
Muñoz-Darias, T.; Martínez-País, I. G.; Casares, J.
Bibliographical reference
INTERACTING BINARIES: Accretion, Evolution, and Outcomes. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 797, pp. 589-592 (2005).
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2005
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Description
Recent works (Steeghs & Casares 2002, Casares et al. 2003, Hynes et
al. 2003) have demonstrated that Bowen flourescence is a very efficient
tracer of the companion star in LMXBs. We present a numerical code to
simulate time-delayed transfer functions in LMXBs, specific to the case
of reprocessing in emission lines. The code is also able to obtain
geometrical and binary parameters by fitting observed (X-ray + optical)
light curves using simulated annealing methods. In this work we present
the geometrical model for the companion star and the analytical model
for the disc and show synthetic time-delay transfer functions for
different orbital phases and system parameters.