A model for the waveform behavior of accreting millisecond x-ray pulsars: Nearly aligned magnetic fields and moving emission regions

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 706, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 417-435

  Lamb, Frederick K ^a,b   Boutloukos, Stratos ^a,c   Van Wassenhove, Sandor ^a   Chamberlain, Robert T ^a   Lo, Ka Ho ^a   Clare, Alexander ^a   Yu, Wenfei ^a   Miller, M Coleman ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulsars: general; Stars: neutron; Stars: rotation; X rays: bursts; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549108180     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/417     Document Type: Article

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