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Search for the centrifugal barrier in transient x-ray pulsars
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Rappaport, Saul |
| Copyright Year | 2000 |
| Description | This paper discusses a search for the centrifugal barrier in transient X-ray pulsars with RXTE. The RXTE observation associated with this research involved monitoring the X-ray intensities and pulse profiles of six transient x-ray pulsars on five different occasions. The goal was to determine whether the so-called "centrifugal barrier" effects exists for accretion-powered X-ray pulsars. In this long-postulated effects, accretion onto the neutron star should be inhibited when the accretion rate falls below the point where the magnetospheric boundary lies outside the neutron star's corotation radius. |
| File Size | 65092 |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2000-01-22 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Neutron Stars Stellar Mass Accretion Gravitational Effects X Ray Binaries Pulsars Corotation Centrifugal Force Stellar Physics X Ray Timing Explorer X Ray Astronomy X Ray Sources Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |