Magnetic Alignment and Counter-Alignment in Binary X-Ray Pulsars
Abstract
The magnetic torque exerted on a binary X-ray pulsar acts to decrease the angle between the dipole and spin axes during braking episodes, but to increase it whenever spinup occurs. The likely effect on the X-ray pulse profiles is considered.
- Publication:
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Space Science Reviews
- Pub Date:
- March 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF01246043
- Bibcode:
- 1981SSRv...30..341W
- Keywords:
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- Angular Velocity;
- Binary Stars;
- Neutron Stars;
- Pulsars;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- X Ray Sources;
- Dipole Moments;
- Magnetic Dipoles;
- Magnetospheres;
- Stellar Rotation;
- Astrophysics