Accretion-powered millisecond pulsars

Abstract

I review X-ray observations of accretion-powered millisecond pulsars and current theories for formation of their spectra and pulse profiles.

14 pages, 6 figures; invited review presented at COSPAR Colloquium "Spectra & Timing of Compact X-ray Binaries", January 17-20, 2005, Mumbai, India. Advances in Space Research, in press

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