Nuclear-powered millisecond pulsars and the maximum spin frequency of neutron stars

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6944, 2003, Pages 42-44

  Chakrabarty, Deepto ^a,b   Morgan, Edward H ^a   Muno, Michael P ^a   Galloway, Duncan K ^a   Wijnands, Rudy ^c   Van der Klis, Michiel ^d   Markwardt, Craig B ^e,f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; NEUTRONS; OSCILLATIONS; TORQUE; X RAYS;

MILLISECOND PULSARS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTRONOMY; OSCILLATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GRAVITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEUTRON; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OSCILLATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038342444     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01732     Document Type: Article

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