2008/01/01 by Juri Poutanen, R. Wijnands, D. Altamirano +6 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.3031209
published as AIP Conf. proc. 1068 (2008), 77-86 · Invited review, to appear in the proceedings of the workshop 'A Decade of Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars' (Amsterdam, April 2008)
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I review the basic observational properties of accreting millisecond pulsars that are important for understanding the physics involved in formation of their pulse profiles. I then discuss main effects responsible for shaping these profiles. Some analytical results that help to understand the results of simulations are presented. Constraints on the pulsar geometry and the neutron star equation of state obtained from the analysis of the pulse profiles are discussed.