4 papers
Double-peaked thermonuclear bursts at the soft-hard state transition in the Rapid Burster
T. Bagnoli, J. J. M. in 't Zand, A. Patruno +1
Long suspected to be due to unstable accretion events, the type II bursts exhibited by the Rapid Burster (RB, or MXB 1730-335) still lack an exhaustive explanation. Apart from type…
LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
M. Feroci, J. W. den Herder, E. Bozzo +245
The LOFT mission concept is one of four candidates selected by ESA for the M3 launch opportunity as Medium Size missions of the Cosmic Vision programme. The launch window is curren…
Type I X-ray bursts and burst oscillations in the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17511-3057
D. Altamirano, A. Watts, M. Linares +3
We report the discovery of burst oscillations at the spin frequency in ten thermonuclear bursts from the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) IGR J17511-3057. The burst oscill…
Discovery of an accreting millisecond pulsar in the eclipsing binary system Swift J1749.4-2807
D. Altamirano, Y. Cavecchi, A. Patruno +12
We report on the discovery and the timing analysis of the first eclipsing accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP): SWIFT J1749.4-2807. The neutron star rotates at a frequ…