Accretion-powered millisecond pulsars

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2697-2703

  Poutanen, Juri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Accretion; Accretion discs; Binaries; Neutron; Stars; X rays

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; NEUTRONS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

ACCRETION; ACCRETION DISCS; BINARIES; STARS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 33751191672     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.04.025     Document Type: Article

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