Timing the accretion flow around accreting millisecond pulsars
Abstract
At present, ten years after they were first discovered, ten accreting millisecond pulsars are known. I present a study of the aperiodic X-ray variability in three of these systems, which led to the discovery of simultaneous kHz quasi periodic oscillations in XTE J1807-294 and extremely strong broadband noise at unusually low variability frequencies in IGR J00291+5934. Furthermore, we classified SWIFT J1756.9-2508 as an atoll source and measured in its 2007 outburst spectral and variability properties typical of the extreme island state. I also give detailed estimates of the total fluence during the studied outbursts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.3368,
title = {Timing the accretion flow around accreting millisecond pulsars},
author = {Manuel Linares},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.3368},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To be published in the proceedings of the workshop 'A Decade of Accreting Millisecond X-ray pulsars' (Amsterdam 14-18 April 2008; Eds. Wijnands et al.)