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Modeling pulse profiles of accreting millisecond pulsars
Juri Poutanen
I review the basic observational properties of accreting millisecond pulsars that are important for understanding the physics involved in formation of their pulse profiles. I then…
The 2008 May burst activation of SGR 1627-41
P. Esposito, G. L. Israel, S. Zane +16
In May 2008 the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1627-41 resumed its bursting activity after nearly a decade of quiescence. After detection of a bright burst, Swift pointed its X-ray te…
Transient Phenomena in Anomalous X-ray Pulsars
GianLuca Israel, Federico Bernardini, Marta Burgay +4
In 2003 a previously unpulsed Einstein and ROSAT source cataloged as soft and dim (Lx of few 10^33 ergs) thermal emitting object, namely XTE J1810-197, was identified as the first…
Accurate X-ray position and multiwavelength observations of the isolated neutron star RBS 1774
N. Rea, M. A. P. Torres, P. G. Jonker +7
We report on X-ray, optical, infrared and radio observations of the X-ray dim isolated neutron star (XDINS) 1RXS J214303.7+065419 (also known as RBS 1774). The X-ray observation wa…
Our distorted view of magnetars: application of the Resonant Cyclotron Scattering model
N. Rea, S. Zane, M. Lyutikov +1
The X-ray spectra of the magnetar candidates are customarily fitted with an empirical, two component model: an absorbed blackbody and a power-law. However, the physical interpretat…
Chandra Smells a RRAT: X-ray Detection of a Rotating Radio Transient
B. M. Gaensler, M. McLaughlin, S. Reynolds +10
"Rotating RAdio Transients" (RRATs) are a newly discovered astronomical phenomenon, characterised by occasional brief radio bursts, with average intervals between bursts ranging fr…