Coupling Between Periodic and Aperiodic Variability in SAX J1808.4-3658

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2003-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303606v1

Astrophys.J. 589 (2003) 503-508

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 3 figures, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/374588

We detect a significant broadening in the wings of the 401 Hz peak in the power spectrum of the accreting millisecond binary pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. This feature is consistent with the convolution of the red noise present in the power spectrum with the harmonic line. We conclude that the flux modulated by the spin period shows aperiodic variability similar to the red noise in the overall flux, suggesting such variability also originates at the magnetic caps close to the neutron star surface. This is analogous to the results found in some longer period, higher magnetic field pulsators in high mass X-ray binaries.

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