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A Spectral Insight into the Physics of Accreting ms Pulsars
A PapittoA RiggioL BurderiMt MennaE. BozzoTiziana Di SalvoAntonino D'ai'Rosario Iariasubject
X-rays: binariesSettore FIS/05 - Astronomia E Astrofisicaline: profileprofiles; X-rays: binaries [accretion accretion disks; line]accretion accretion diskdescription
The broadened iron lines observed from accreting compact objects are most easily interpreted in terms of reflection onto the accretion disc of the hard X-ray photons emitted by the central source. In this context, such a broadness is due to the relativistic motion of the reflecting plasma, in the deep gravitational well of the compact object, and can thus serve as a probe of the inner radius of the disc. Here we report about the discovery of such features from a couple of accreting millisecond pulsars, and discuss the constraints which can be derived on the magnetospheric radius.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-01-01 |