X ray timing observations and gravitational physics

Details X ray timing observations and gravitational physics X ray timing observations and gravitational physics

Aug 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989nascp3046...98m&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Relativistic Gravitational Experiments in Space p 98-103 (SEE N90-19940 12-90)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Gravitational Waves, Radiation Sources, Time Measurement, X Ray Astronomy, X Ray Telescopes, Astrophysics, Black Holes (Astronomy), Dark Matter, Gravitational Effects, Neutron Stars, Nucleons, Phased Arrays, Pulsars, Relativity, Stellar Mass

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Photon-rich x ray observations on bright compact galactic sources will make it possible to detect many fast processes that may occur in these systems on millisecond and submillisecond timescales. Many of these processes are of direct relevance to gravitational physics because they arise in regions of strong gravity near neutron stars and black holes where the dynamical timescales for compact objects of stellar mass are milliseconds. To date, such observations have been limited by the detector area and telemetry rates available. However, instruments such as the proposed X ray Large Array (XLA) would achieve collecting areas of about 100 sq m. This instrument has been described elsewhere (Wood and Michelson 1988) and was the subject of a recent prephase A feasibility study at Marshall Space Flight Center. Observations with an XLA class instrument will directly impact five primary areas of astrophysics research: the attempt to detect gravitational radiation, the study of black holes, the physics of mass accretion onto compact objects, the structure of neutron stars and nuclear matter, and the characterization of dark matter in the universe. Those observations are discussed that are most directly relevant to gravitational physics: the search for millisecond x ray pulsars that are potential sources of continuous gravitational radiation; and the use of x ray timing observations to probe the physical conditions in extreme relativistic regions of space near black holes, both stellar-sized and supermassive.

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