Motion of the hot spot and spin torque in accreting millisecond pulsars

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Authors
Publication date 2008
Host editors
  • R. Wijnands
  • D. Altamirano
  • P. Soleri
  • N. Degenaar
  • N. Rea
  • P. Casella
  • A. Patruno
  • M. Linares
Book title A Decade of Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars
Book subtitle proceedings of the international workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 14-18 April 2008
ISBN
  • 9780735405998
Series AIP Conference Proceedings
Event A Decade of Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pages (from-to) 25-32
Publisher Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract The primary concern of this contribution is that accreting millisecond pulsars (AMXPs) show a much larger amount of information than is commonly believed. The three questions to be addressed are:
1. Is the apparent spin torque observed in AMXPs real ?
2. Why do we see correlations and anti-correlations between fractional amplitudes and timing residuals in some AMXPs ?
3. Why the timing residuals, the lightcurve and the 1Hz QPO in SAX J1808.4-3658 are related ?
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3031199
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