Quasi-periodic X-ray brightness fluctuations in an accreting millisecond pulsar

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6944, 2003, Pages 44-47

  Wijnands, R ^a   Van der Klis, M ^b   Homan, J ^c   Chakrabarty, D ^d   Markwardt, C B ^e   Morgan, E H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRONS; PLASMA FLOW; X RAYS;

MILLISECOND PULSARS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY; PLASMA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUTRON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038342443     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01754     Document Type: Article

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