Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998tx19.confe.221v&link_type=abstract
Abstracts of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, held in Paris, France, Dec. 14-18, 1998. Eds.:
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
With the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) quasi-periodic oscillations have been discovered in the X-ray flux of accreting neutron stars with frequencies up to ~1200 Hz. These oscillation likely originate in the regions of the accretion flow where general relativity in the strong-field regime is required to adequately describe the motion of the accreting matter, and may be due to orbital motion around the neutron star with orbital radii of ~15 km. Possibly associated phenomena have been seen in accreting stellar mass black hole candidates. I review the phenomenology and discuss to what extent these phenomena can be used to probe strong-field GR.
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