Many facets of Neutron Stars Astrosat and beyond Biswajit Paul Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
Many facets of Neutron Stars Astrosat and beyond Different varieties of neutron stars X-ray binary studies Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries Accretion torque Quasi periodic oscillations in accreting X-ray pulsars Self absorption in X-ray and dips in the pulse profiles Cyclotron scattering resonance feature, pulse phased studies Thermonuclear bursts, X-ray reprocessing Future Astrosat X-ray polarimeter
Rotation Powered : Ordinary and Millisecond Pulsars Different Types of Neutron Stars
Magnetars Different Types of Neutron Stars
Accretion Powered Different Types of Neutron Stars
Why study orbital evolution Single star evolution is different from binary evolution End products : Double compact binaries (Gravitational wave, GRBs) Stellar physics!!
Orbital Evolution HMXBs LMC X-4 SMC X-1 Cen X-3 4U Be-XRBs 4U LMXBs Her X-1 SAX J U XTE J Conservative mass transfer Mass transfer + mass loss Tidal effect Gravitational wave radiation
Measurement Techniques Pulse timing (Broad pulse, jitters, absorption, statistics) Eclipse timing (Pre-eclipse dips) Orbital modulation (Stability of modulation pattern) Spectroscopic (HMXB ? X-ray Irradiation ?)
Orbital Evolution of HMXB Pulsars Evolution time scale ~ years Tidal effect
Apsidal advance in 4U U : 24.3 days Ecentricity: 0.34, apsidal rate: Raichur and Paul 2010
Probing the Stellar Structure
Eclipse timing: XTE J
Jain and Paul 2010
Eclipse timing: EXO Wolff et al. 2009
Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries LMC X-4 CenX-3SMC X-14U U Her X-1 XTE J Cyg X-3 XTE J
Disk Magnetosphere Interaction Ghosh and Lamb 1979
QPOs: Luminosity dependence A : Finger et al., (1996), Ghosh (1996)
QPO Discoveries XTE J : Paul et al. (1998)4U : Mukherjee et al. (2001) XTE J (Kaur al. 2007)
QPO Discoveries
QPO census SourceTypePulse freq QPO freqRatio KS HMXB/Be SAX J HMXB/? A HMXB/Be V HMXB/Be U HMXB/Be A HMXB/Be XTE J HMXB/Be U HMXB/? EXO HMXB/Be SWIFT J HMXB/Be XTE J HMXB/B0.5-B1Ve GRO J LMXB GX 304-1HMXB MAXI J HMXB SMC X-1HMXB/B Her X-1LMXB LMC X-4HMXB/O-type Cen X-3HMXB/O-type U LMXB X PerHMXB/Be U HMXB/OB
Magnetic Field Estimation with QPOs
James 2012 (PhD Thesis)
Dips in Pulse Profiles : Partial Covering Absorption 23
Dips in Pulse Profiles : Partial Covering Absorption 24
Dips in Pulse Profiles : Partial Covering Absorption 25
Accretion onto Neutron Star
Ghosh & Lamb, 1979 Frank, King and Raine: Accretion Power in Astrophysics
Fermi-GBM, CGRO-BATSE
From BATSE Bildstein et al. 1997
Fermi-GBM, CGRO-BATSE
4U : Period Evolution Camero-Arranz et al. 2010
4U : Light Curves 32 Aru Beri et al. 2013
4U : Pulse Profiles 33 Aru Beri et al. 2013
Accretion torque in 4U X-ray luminosity (mass accretion rate) is not the sole deciding factor in accretion torque How the disk couples to the magnet is also important
Accreting X-ray pulsars Spectrum 35
Pulsar Cyclotron lines
Cyclotron lines at different pulse phases
Pulsar Cyclotron lines Fundamental and harmonic ratio
Pulsar Cyclotron lines At Different Luminosities 4U
Reprocessing of Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts
Thermonuclear X-ray Burst Reprocessing 41
Reprocessing Region ? Hynes et al. 2006
Reprocessing in EXO : XMM-Newton Observations
X-ray Pulse Reprocessing 4U : (Gayathri, Paul, Dipankar, Mohan, 2015)
Low mass X-ray binaries
ASTORSAT
Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment ( )
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Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter
LAXPC: Effective Area
Hard X-ray Quasi Periodic Oscillations
X-ray Polarimetry
Accreting X-ray Pulsars 54
Black Hole Accretion Disks 55
Rotation Powered Pulsars & Magnetars 56
57
Detectors 58
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Deep Interplanetary Navigation with X-ray pulsars ISRO HQ - 22 Apr 2014 Becker et al. 2013
Deep Interplanetary Navigation with X-ray pulsars Becker et al. 2013