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Accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars: recent developments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Rudy Wijnands
Rudy Wijnands*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute ’Anton Pannekoek’, University of Amsterdam, Postbus 94249, 1090 GE Amsterdam, the Netherlands email: r.a.d.wijnands@uva.nl
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Abstract

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It is now more than eleven years since the discovery of the first accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar. Since then, eleven additional systems have been found, two of them during the last year. Here I briefly discuss the most recent developments with respect to these systems.

Keywords

pulsars:X-ray – stars:neutron – X-rays:binaries
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Highlights H15: Highlights of Astronomy , November 2009 , pp. 121 - 125
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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