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Beaming Due to Comptonisation in X-ray Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D.K. Galloway  and
K. Wu
D.K. Galloway
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-21, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia
K. Wu
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia

Abstract

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Comptonisation may play an important role in determining beam patterns and hence pulse profiles in X-ray pulsars. We describe a Monte Carlo simulation used to investigate the spectra and pulse profiles emitted by two semi-infinite homogeneous cyclindrical accretion columns diametrically located on the surface of a ‘canonical’ neutron star.

Type
Part 6. Emission and Plasma Theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 435 - 436
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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