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X-rays from Radio Millisecond Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Slavko Bogdanov
Slavko Bogdanov*
Affiliation:
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027, USA email: slavko@astro.columbia.edu
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Abstract

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The Galactic population of rotation-powered (aka radio) millisecond pulsars (MSPs) exhibits diverse X-ray properties. Energetic MSPs show pulsed non-thermal radiation from their magnetospheres. Eclipsing binary MSPs predominantly have X-ray emission from a pulsar wind driven intra-binary shock. Typical radio MSPs emit X-rays from their heated magnetic polar caps. These thermally emitting MSPs offer the opportunity to place interesting constraints on the long sought after dense matter equation of state, making them important targets of investigation of the recently deployed Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray mission.

Keywords

stars: neutron–X-rays: stars–dense matter–equation of state

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