A new X-ray pulsar with a 67-millisecond period in the constellation Equuleus

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Heao 1, Light Curve, Pulsars, Spaceborne Astronomy, X Ray Sources, Neutron Stars, Statistical Analysis, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Stellar Rotation

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On November 18 and 19, 1977, the large area detector on the HEAO satellite pointed for 96 minutes toward one direction. At that time the 5-ms mode was employed, and 5-ms data accumulations were transmitted. Some 753,000 data points were epoch-folded to search for periods between 10 ms and 100 ms, and one period showed a very low expectation for random occurrences. This point was persistent for a long enough time to permit the epoch-folding of a large body of data, its precise determination to 0.1 microsec, and the sighting of its light curve. All the tests performed indicate the existence of a pulsar in this place. The period of this pulsar is 67.5492 ms, corrected for heliocentric coordinates (its local period is 67.55328 ms). Its expectation for random occurrence is lower than 5 x 10 to the -9th.

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