Spin-disc misalignment drives periodic accretion and pulse profile asymmetry in X-ray pulsars

A. A. Mushtukov, V. Ganesh, S. S. Tsygankov +2

We investigate magnetospheric accretion in disc-fed X-ray pulsars assuming that the neutron star spin axis is not perpendicular to the disc plane. We focus on X-ray pulsars, where…