Accretion disks and coronae in the X-ray flashlight

N Degenaar, DR Ballantyne, T Belloni… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Plasma accreted onto the surface of a neutron star can ignite due to unstable thermonuclear
burning and produce a bright flash of X-ray emission called a Type-I X-ray burst. Such …

Swings between rotation and accretion power in a binary millisecond pulsar

A Papitto, C Ferrigno, E Bozzo, N Rea, L Pavan… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
It is thought that neutron stars in low-mass binary systems can accrete matter and angular
momentum from the companion star and be spun-up to millisecond rotational periods …

A new radio census of neutron star X-ray binaries

J Van Den Eijnden, N Degenaar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We report new radio observations of a sample of 36 neutron star (NS) X-ray binaries, more
than doubling the sample in the literature observed at current-day sensitivities. These …

UltraCompCAT: A comprehensive catalogue of ultra-compact and short orbital period X-ray binaries

MA Padilla, JM Corral-Santana, A Borghese… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are a distinctive but elusive family of low-mass X-ray
binaries (LMXBs) characterised by their tight orbits and degenerate donor stars. Here we …

Accretion powered X-ray millisecond pulsars

TD Salvo, A Sanna - Millisecond Pulsars, 2021 - Springer
The discovery in 1998 of the first accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar started an exciting
season of continuing discoveries. In the last 20 years, thanks to the extraordinary …

A hard look at the neutron stars and accretion disks in 4U 1636-53, GX 17+ 2, and 4U 1705-44 with NuStar

RM Ludlam, JM Miller, M Bachetti, D Barret… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present NuSTAR observations of neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binaries: 4U 1636-
53, GX 17+ 2, and 4U 1705-44. We observed 4U 1636-53 in the hard state, with an …

The magnetic-field strengths of accreting millisecond pulsars

D Mukherjee, P Bult, M van der Klis… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In this work we have estimated upper and lower limits to the strength of the magnetic dipole
moment of all 14 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing …

Accretion-induced spin-wandering effects on the neutron star in Scorpius X-1: Implications for continuous gravitational wave searches

A Mukherjee, C Messenger, K Riles - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The LIGO's discovery of binary black hole mergers has opened up a new era of transient
gravitational wave astronomy. The potential detection of gravitational radiation from another …

Detection of a strong~ 2.5 Hz modulation in the newly discovered millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816–195

PP Li, L Tao, L Zhang, QC Bu, JL Qu, L Ji… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT MAXI J1816–195 is a newly discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar that
went outburst in 2022 June. Through timing analysis with Neutron star Interior Composition …

Outflows and spectral evolution in the eclipsing AMXP SWIFT J1749.4–2807 with NICER, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR

A Marino, A Anitra, SM Mazzola… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The neutron star low-mass X-ray binary SWIFT J1749. 4–2807 is the only known eclipsing
accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar. In this manuscript, we perform a spectral characterization …