Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-09-25
Astrophys.J.654:L73-L76,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJL following minor revisions suggested by referee
Scientific paper
10.1086/510741
We describe observations of the seventh accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, HETE J1900.1-2455 made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer during the year of activity that followed its discovery in 2005 June. We detected intermittent pulsations at a peak fractional amplitude of 3%, but only in the first two months of the outburst. On three occasions during this time we observed an abrupt increase in the pulse amplitude, approximately coincident with the time of a thermonuclear burst, followed by a steady decrease on a timescale of approx. 10 d. HETE J1900.1-2455 has shown the longest active period by far for any transient accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, comparable instead to the outburst cycles for other transient X-ray binaries. Since the last detection of pulsations, HETE J1900.1-2455 has been indistinguishable from a low-accretion rate, non-pulsing LMXB; we hypothesize that other, presently active LMXBs may have also been detectable initially as millisecond X-ray pulsars.
Chakrabarty Deepto
Galloway Duncan K.
Kaaret Philip
Krauss Miriam I.
Morgan Edward Harrington
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