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The Oblate Schwarzschild Approximation for Light Curves of Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars
Sharon M. Morsink, Denis A. Leahy, Coire Cadeau +1
We present a simple method for including the oblateness of a rapidly rotating neutron star when fitting X-ray light curves. In previous work we showed that the oblateness induced b…
Improved methods for modeling pulse shapes of accreting millisecond pulsars
D. Leahy, S. Morsink, C. Cadeau
Raytracing computations for light emitted from the surface of a rapidly rotating neutron star are carried out in order to construct light curves for accreting millisecond pulsars.…
Rotational Broadening of Atomic Spectral Features from Neutron Stars
P. Chang, S. Morsink, L. Bildsten +1
The discovery of the first gravitationally redshifted spectral line from a neutron star (NS) by Cottam, Paerels and Mendez has triggered theoretical studies of the physics of atomi…
The Effect of Neutron Star Binding Energy on Gravitational-Radiation-Driven Mass-Transfer Binaries
Evelyne Alecian, Sharon M. Morsink
In a relativistic model of a neutron star, the star's mass is less than the mass of the individual component baryons. This is due to the fact that the star's negative binding energ…