Variability in the thermal emission from accreting neutron star transients

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 574, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 920-929

  Brown, Edward F ^a   Bildsten, Lars ^b   Chang, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conduction; Diffusion; Stars: individual (Aquila X 1, CentaurusX 4, SAX J1808.4 3658); Stars: neutron; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037519193     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341066     Document Type: Article

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