Studying Millisecond Pulsars in X-rays

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dc.creatorZavlin, Vyacheslav E.
dc.date2006-08-09
dc.date2006-08-17
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:39:45Z
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dc.descriptionMillisecond pulsars represent an evolutionarily distinct group among rotation-powered pulsars. Outside the radio band, the soft X-ray range ($\sim 0.1$--10 keV) is most suitable for studying radiative mechanisms operating in these fascinating objects. X-ray observations revealed diverse properties of emission from millisecond pulsars. For the most of them, the bulk of radiation is of a thermal origin, emitted from small spots (polar caps) on the neutron star surface heated by relativistic particles produced in pulsar acceleration zones. On the other hand, a few other very fast rotating pulsars exhibit almost pure nonthermal emission generated, most probably, in pulsar magnetospheres. There are also examples of nonthermal emission detected from X-ray nebulae powered by millisecond pulsars, as well as from pulsar winds shocked in binary systems with millisecond pulsars as companions. These and other most important results obtained from X-ray observations of millisecond pulsars are reviewed in this paper, as well as results from the search for millisecond pulsations in X-ray flux of the radio-quite neutron star RX J1856.5-3754.
dc.descriptionTo appear in Astrophysics and Space Science, Proceedings of "Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Interior to the Surface", eds. D. Page, R. Turolla and S. Zane; 10 pages, 12 figures (four of them are color); an aknowledgement has been added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608210
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608210
dc.identifierAstrophys.SpaceSci.308:297-307,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1007/s10509-007-9297-y
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/181141
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleStudying Millisecond Pulsars in X-rays
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