An alternative interpretation of the timing noise in accreting millisecond pulsars

Details An alternative interpretation of the timing noise in accreting millisecond pulsars An alternative interpretation of the timing noise in accreting millisecond pulsars

2009-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/0902.4118v1

Astrophys.J.698:L60-L63,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Submitted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/L60

The measurement of the spin frequency in accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars (AMXPs) is strongly affected by the presence of an unmodeled component in the pulse arrival times called 'timing noise'. We show that it is possible to attribute much of this timing noise to a pulse phase offset that varies in correlation with X-ray flux, such that noise in flux translates into timing noise. This could explain many of the pulse frequency variations previously interpreted in terms of true spin up or spin down, and would bias measured spin frequencies. Spin frequencies improved under this hypothesis are reported for six AMXPs. The effect would most easily be accounted for by an accretion rate dependent hot spot location.

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