Dec 11 – 15, 2023
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
Asia/Shanghai timezone

Accretion regimes in accreting X-ray pulsars

Dec 11, 2023, 4:59 PM
12m
Hall # 10

Hall # 10

Contributed talk in mini symposium Accretion Processes

Speaker

Long Ji (SYSU)

Description

Accreting pulsars are highly magnetized neutron stars in binary systems. They accrete material from the donor star and release the gravitational energy into X-rays. They generally exhibit complex timing and spectral variations at different accretion regimes depending on the accretion rate and the magnetic field. In the past few years, Insight-HXMT and NICER have provided broadband and high-cadence observations with complete coverage of several luminous outbursts of accreting X-ray pulsars. In this talk, we will introduce the detailed evolution of pulse profiles, spectral shapes and cyclotron resonant scattering features over a large luminosity range, and discuss the related theoretical models.

Primary author

Long Ji (SYSU)

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