A Double Outburst from IGR J00291+5934: Implications for Accretion Disk Instability Theory

A Double Outburst from IGR J00291+5934: Implications for Accretion Disk Instability Theory

The accretion-powered millisecond pulsar IGR J00291+5934 underwent two ~10 day long outbursts during 2008, separated by 30 days in quiescence. Such a short quiescent period between outbursts has never been seen before from a neutron star X-ray transient. X-ray pulsations at the 599 Hz spin frequency...

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Main Authors: Galloway, Duncan K. (Author), Chakrabarty, Deepto (Contributor), Hartman, Jacob M., Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2012-04-13T15:27:55Z.
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