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Recycling in progress: RXTE discovery of the first accretion-powered millisecond pulsar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. van der Klis
M. van der Klis*
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, NL

Abstract

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The discovery is reported of the first accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, SAX J 1808.4–3658. This 2.5 millisecond pulsar has a magnetic field strength of 1–10108 Gauss and has all the characteristics of the long-predicted millisecond radio pulsar progenitor, a neutron star in an X-ray binary system where the process of recycling is taking place at this time.

Type
Part 9. Population and Neutron Star Properties
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 643 - 648
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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