On the path to strong gravity through timing accreting compact objects

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Jan 2012

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10th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, Proceedings of the conference held at Ioannina, Greece, 5-8 September 2011. Edited by Io

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The X-ray emission from accreting black holes and neutron stars features strong variability on sub-second time scales, with very complex and broad phenomenology and strongly linked to spectral variations. From high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations to rapidly changing X-ray burst oscillations to millisecond pulsations, these are weak signals immersed in strong noise and their study is pushing instrument capabilities to their limit. The scientific significance of fast time variability studies are both astronomical (properties of accretion flows, nature and evolution of sources) and physical (effects of General Relativity, equation of state of degenerate matter). I will review the main observational properties and discuss the future prospects and observational needs, introducing the proposed Large Observatory For x-ray Timing (LOFT) mission.

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