Studying accreting black holes and neutron stars with time series: Beyond the power spectrum

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6603, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vaughan, Simon ^a   Uttley, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion; Black hole; Neutron star; Non linearity; Power spectrum; Time series; X ray binary

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; POWER SPECTRUM; STARS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FOURIER SPECTRA; GAUSSIANITY; NEUTRON STARS; TURBULENT ACCRETION FLOWS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 36248977532     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.724650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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