Accretion-powered X-ray pulsars.
Abstract
This paper gives an overview of X-ray pulsars powered by the accretion of matter from a companion star in a close binary system. Recent advances in studies of X-ray pulsars are reviewed, with a special focus on the results of observations by the Hakucho and Tenma satellites. Some topics revealed by the Ginga satellite in the last one-and-a-half years are also included to appeal for a new strategy for studying X-ray pulsars.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989PASJ...41....1N
- Keywords:
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- Exosat Satellite;
- Light Curve;
- Pulsars;
- Stellar Mass Accretion;
- X Ray Binaries;
- B Stars;
- Crab Nebula;
- Emission Spectra;
- Energy Spectra;
- Neutron Stars;
- Stellar Winds;
- Astrophysics