X-ray Emission from Millisecond Pulsars

Details X-ray Emission from Millisecond Pulsars X-ray Emission from Millisecond Pulsars

Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...20911503b&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #115.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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I have conducted a detailed study of the X-ray study of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The majority of MSPs are found to exhibit low-luminosity thermal radiation from their heated polar caps. In terms of X-ray properties, there are no apparent differences between MSPs in globular clusters and the field of the Galaxy. Two globular cluster MSPs are found to exhibit X-ray/optical properties remarkably similar to accreting X-ray MSPs in quiescence and may be the missing link between accretionand rotation-powered MSPs. I present a model of the thermal emission from MSPs, which allows constraints on the emission properties, magnetic field geometry, and compactness of the underlying neutron star.

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