Monitoring Accreting X-ray Pulsars with the GLAST Burst Monitor

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Jul 2007

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THE FIRST GLAST SYMPOSIUM. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 921, pp. 229-231 (2007).

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Neutron Stars, X-Ray Binaries, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation, Accretion And Accretion Disks

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Accreting pulsars are exceptionally good laboratories for probing the detailed physics of accretion onto magnetic stars. While similar accretion flows also occur in other types of astrophysical systems, e.g. magnetic CVs, only neutron stars have a small enough moment of inertia for the accretion of angular momentum to result in measurable changes in spin-frequency in a timescale of days. Long-term monitoring of accreting pulsar spin-frequencies and fluxes was demonstrated with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Here we present sample results from BATSE, discuss measurement techniques appropriate for GBM, and estimate the expected GBM sensitivity.

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