RXTE Monitoring of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars

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Dec 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...197.8311g&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #83.11; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1544

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The nature of anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) has been a mystery since the discovery of the first example some 20 years ago. As part of a long-term monitoring project, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer has been used to observe the 5 known AXPs on a monthly basis in an effort to test the leading model for these sources, namely, that they are magnetars. In this poster we will present recent results from this project, including the sources' timing properties as deduced from phase-coherent studies, the sources' pulsed flux-time series, pulse morphology histories, as well as phase-resolved spectroscopy. This work is funded by NASA and NSERC.

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