Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in Nova Science Publishers (NY) volume "Pulsars New Research"
Scientific paper
I present an overview of our current observational knowledge of the six known accretion-driven millisecond X-ray pulsars. A prominent place in this review is given to SAX J1808.4-3658; it was the first such system discovered and currently four outbursts have been observed from this source, three of which have been studied in detail using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite. This makes SAX J1808.4-3658 the best studied example of an accretion-driven millisecond pulsar. Its most recent outburst in October 2002 is of particular interest because of the discovery of two simultaneous kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations and nearly coherent oscillations during type-I X-ray bursts. This is the first (and so far only) time that such phenomena are observed in a system for which the neutron star spin frequency is exactly known. The other five systems were discovered within the last three years (with IGR J00291+5934 only discovered in December 2004) and only limited results have been published.
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