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High Speed Photometry at Mt Stromlo Observatory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

B. A. Peterson
B. A. Peterson*
Affiliation:
Mt Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University
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Important observations of X-ray sources and searches for the optical counterparts of X-ray and radio pulsars require a capability of detecting and analysing light variations with a time scale of milliseconds. X-ray sources in binary star systems are expected to be collapsed objects – neutron stars or black holes (Peterson 1973) – and are expected to produce light variations. In the case of a neutron star, pulses with the same period as the rotation period of the neutron star would be produced, and such have been observed from Cen X-3 (schreier et al. 1972) in the X-ray, and from Her X-1 (Middleditch and Nelson 1973) and the Crab Nebula pulsar (Cocke et al. 1969) in the X-ray optical.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 2 , Issue 5 , September 1974 , pp. 278 - 280
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1974

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