Search for the Centrifugal Barrier in Transient X-ray Pulsars

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Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000stin...0180453r&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, MA United States Dept. of Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

X Ray Timing Explorer, Pulsars, Centrifugal Force, X Ray Astronomy, Stellar Mass Accretion, X Ray Binaries, X Ray Sources, Corotation, Neutron Stars, Gravitational Effects, Stellar Physics

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This paper discusses a search for the centrifugal barrier in transient X-ray pulsars with RXTE. The RXTE observation associated with this research involved monitoring the X-ray intensities and pulse profiles of six transient x-ray pulsars on five different occasions. The goal was to determine whether the so-called "centrifugal barrier" effects exists for accretion-powered X-ray pulsars. In this long-postulated effects, accretion onto the neutron star should be inhibited when the accretion rate falls below the point where the magnetospheric boundary lies outside the neutron star's corotation radius.

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