Swings between rotation and accretion power in a binary millisecond pulsar

Nature

Volumn 501, Issue 7468, 2013, Pages 517-520

  Papitto, A ^a   Ferrigno, C ^b   Bozzo, E ^b   Rea, N ^a   Pavan, L ^b   Burderi, L ^c   Burgay, M ^d   Campana, S ^e   Di Salvo, T ^f   Falanga, M ^g   Filipovic M D ^h   Freire, P C C ⁱ   Hessels, J W T ^j,k   Possenti, A ^d   Ransom, S M ^l   Riggio, A ^c   Romano, P ^m   Sarkissian, J M ⁿ   Stairs, I H ^o   Stella, L ^p   Torres, D F ^a,q   Wieringa, M H ⁿ   Wong, G F ^h,n   more..

^a INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^g INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^j ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^l NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^m INAF IASF PALERMO   (Italy)

ⁿ CSIRO   (Australia)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^p INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^q INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; INFLOW; MAGNETIC FIELD; MASS; MASS TRANSFER; RADIO; ROTATION; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; BINARY MILLISECOND PULSAR; COSMOS; ENERGY; NEUTRON; NEUTRON STAR; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; TIME; X RAY;

EID: 84885615915     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12470     Document Type: Article

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