Optical pulsations from a transitional millisecond pulsar
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DOI: 10.1038/s41550-017-0266-2
Abstract: Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars that attain their very fast rotation during a 108–109-yr-long phase of disk accretion of matter from a low-mass companion star1,2. They can be detected as accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsars if… read more here.
Keywords: pulsar; accretion; millisecond; optical pulsations ... See more keywords
Simultaneous broadband observations and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
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DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732244
Abstract: We report on the first simultaneous XMM–Newton, NuSTAR, and Swift observations of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 in the X-ray active state. Our multi-wavelength campaign allowed us to investigate with unprecedented detail possible spectral… read more here.
Keywords: millisecond pulsar; ray; spectroscopy; transitional millisecond ... See more keywords