Different manifestations of accretion onto compact objects

Thesis

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Contents

1: Introduction

2: Millihertz oscillation frequency drift predicts the occurrence of type I X-ray bursts

3: Discovery of coherent millisecond X-ray pulsations in Aql X-1

4: Intermittent millisecond X-ray pulsations from the neutron-star X-ray transient SAX J1748.9–2021 in the globular cluster NGC 6440

5: The Island state of the Atoll Source 4U 1820–30

6: X-ray time variability across the atoll source states of 4U 1636–53

7: Discovery of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations and state transitions in the low-mass X-ray binary 1E 1724–3045 (Terzan 2)

8: The transient black hole candidate XTE J1550–564 as seen by RXTE

Samenvatting

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Accepted observing proposals

Acknowledgement