Accreting millisecond pulsars: one on each hand

Authors
Publication date 2007
Book title The Multicolored Landscape of Compact Objects and Their Explosive Origins
Series AIP Conference Proceedings
Pages (from-to) 629-634
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
We report on the X-ray aperiodic timing analysis of two accreting millisecond pulsars: XTE J1807-294 and IGR J00291+5934. On the one hand, we discovered in XTE J1807-294 seven pairs of simultaneous kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) separated in frequency by nearly the spin frequency of the neutron star. This confirms the suspected dichotomy in the frequency separation of kHz QPOs: sometimes once and sometimes half the spin frequency. On the other hand, we found an extreme behavior in the power spectra of IGR J00291+5934: very strong variability at very low frequencies. Namely, the fractional amplitude of the variability was ~50%, the highest value found so far in a neutron star system.
Document type Conference contribution
Note DOI: 10.1063/1.2774920; eprintid: arXiv:astro-ph/0610902
Language English
Published at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AIPC..924..629L
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