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Accretion-powered millisecond pulsars

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

I review X-ray observations of accretion-powered millisecond pulsars and current theories for formation of their spectra and pulse profiles.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0510038,
  title  = {Accretion-powered millisecond pulsars},
  author = {Juri Poutanen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0510038},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, 6 figures; invited review presented at COSPAR Colloquium "Spectra & Timing of Compact X-ray Binaries", January 17-20, 2005, Mumbai, India. Advances in Space Research, in press