Thin accretion discs around millisecond X-ray pulsars

Solomon Belay Tessema, Ulf Torkelsson

Millisecond x-ray pulsars have weak magnetic dipole moments of $\sim 10^{16}$\,T\,m${}^3$ compared to ordinary X-ray pulsars with dipole moments of $10^{20}$\,T\,m${}^3$. For this reas…