The Completeness of Accreting Neutron Star Binary Candidates from the Chinese Space Station Telescope

Abstract

A neutron star (NS) has many extreme physical conditions, and one may obtain some important information about an NS via accreting neutron star binary (ANSB) systems. The upcoming Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) provides an opportunity to search for a large sample of ANSB candidates. Our goal is to check the completeness of the potential ANSB samples from CSST data. In this paper, we generate some ANSBs and normal binaries under the CSST photometric system by binary evolution and binary population synthesis method and use a machine learning method to train a classification model. Although the Precision (94.56%) of our machine learning model is as high as before study, the Recall is only about 63.29%. The Precision/Recall is mainly determined by the mass transfer rate between the NSs and their companions. In addition, we also find that the completeness of ANSB samples from CSST photometric data by the machine learning method also depends on the companion mass and the age of the system. ANSB candidates with a low initial mass companion star (0.1 M _⊙ to 1 M _⊙) have a relatively high Precision (94.94%) and high Recall (86.32%), whereas ANSB candidates with a higher initial mass companion star (1.1 M _⊙ to 3 M _⊙) have similar Precision (93.88%) and quite low Recall (42.67%). Our results indicate that although the machine learning method may obtain a relatively pure sample of ANSBs, a completeness correction is necessary for one to obtain a complete sample.