SAX J1808.4-3658: an accreting millisecond pulsar

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Dec 1998

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Abstracts of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, held in Paris, France, Dec. 14-18, 1998. Eds.:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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After a search of nearly twenty years, the first accreting millisecond pulsar was finally found in April 1998 (Wijnands and van der Klis, Nature 394, 344, 1998). Observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) of the second known outburst of the X-ray transient SAX J1808.4-3658, discovered with BeppoSAX as a transient X-ray burst source 1.5 years earlier, revealed the presence of a 401 Hz X-ray pulsar in the system. If the sources that SAX and RXTE observed are indeed the same, which is as good as certain, then this object is the first pulsar that shows type I (thermonuclear) X-ray bursts. I review what we know about this unique pulsar and how it relates to the other low-mass X-ray binaries.

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