Why is it difficult to detect a millisecond pulsar in neutron star X-ray binaries?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 576, Issue 1 II, 2002, Pages

  Titarchuk, Lev ^a,b   Cui, Wei ^c   Wood, Kent ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Pulsars: individual (SAX J1808.4 3658); Stars: neutron X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041970882     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343099     Document Type: Article

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