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NASA NTRS · 19830027686

Accretion powered X-ray pulsars

Abstract

A unified description of the properties of 14 X-ray pulsars is presented and compared with the current theoretical understanding of these systems. The sample extends over six orders of magnitude in luminosity, with the only trend in the phase averaged spectra being that the lower luminosity systems appear to have less abrupt high energy cutoffs. There is no correlation of luminosity with power law index, high energy cutoff energy or iron line EW. Detailed pulse phase spectroscopy is given for five systems.

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White, N. E., Swank, J. H., Holt, S. S.. 1982-08-01. Accretion powered X-ray pulsars. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19830027686

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