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Many facets of Neutron Stars Astrosat and beyond Biswajit Paul Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
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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
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Rotation Powered : Ordinary and Millisecond Pulsars Different Types of Neutron Stars
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Magnetars Different Types of Neutron Stars
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Accretion Powered Different Types of Neutron Stars
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Why study orbital evolution Single star evolution is different from binary evolution End products : Double compact binaries (Gravitational wave, GRBs) Stellar physics!!
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Orbital Evolution HMXBs LMC X-4 SMC X-1 Cen X-3 4U 1538-52 Be-XRBs 4U 0115+63 LMXBs Her X-1 SAX J1808.4-3658 4U 1822-37 XTE J1710-281 Conservative mass transfer Mass transfer + mass loss Tidal effect Gravitational wave radiation
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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 ?)
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Orbital Evolution of HMXB Pulsars Evolution time scale ~10 5-6 years Tidal effect
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Apsidal advance in 4U 0115+63 4U 0115+63: 24.3 days Ecentricity: 0.34, apsidal rate: 0.06+-0.02 Raichur and Paul 2010
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Probing the Stellar Structure
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Eclipse timing: XTE J1710-281
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Jain and Paul 2010
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Eclipse timing: EXO 0748-676 Wolff et al. 2009
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Orbital evolution of X-ray binaries LMC X-4 CenX-3SMC X-14U 1538-52 4U 1822-37 Her X-1 XTE J1710-281 Cyg X-3 XTE J1808-5635
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Disk Magnetosphere Interaction Ghosh and Lamb 1979
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QPOs: Luminosity dependence A 0535+262: Finger et al., (1996), Ghosh (1996)
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QPO Discoveries XTE J1858+034: Paul et al. (1998)4U 1907+09: Mukherjee et al. (2001) XTE J0111.2-7317 (Kaur al. 2007)
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QPO Discoveries
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QPO census SourceTypePulse freq QPO freqRatio KS 1947+300HMXB/Be53200.38 SAX J2103.5+4545HMXB/?2.794415.77 A 0535+26HMXB/Be9.7505.15 V 0332+53HMXB/Be229510.223 4U 0115+63HMXB/Be277620.224 1A 1118-616HMXB/Be2.59236.8 XTE J1858+034HMXB/Be4.5311024.3 4U 1901+03HMXB/?361.91300.359 EXO 2030+375HMXB/Be242008.33 SWIFT J1626.6-5156 HMXB/Be65100015.38 XTE J0111.2-7317HMXB/B0.5-B1Ve32127039.68 GRO J1744-28LMXB2100200009.52 GX 304-1HMXB3.6312033 MAXI J1409-619HMXB2.019295 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SMC X-1HMXB/B01410100.0071 Her X-1LMXB806130.016 LMC X-4HMXB/O-type740.65-200.0087-0.27 Cen X-3HMXB/O-type207350.17 4U 1626-67LMXB130480.37 X PerHMXB/Be1.25445 4U 1907+09HMXB/OB2.276930.4
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Magnetic Field Estimation with QPOs
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James 2012 (PhD Thesis)
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Dips in Pulse Profiles : Partial Covering Absorption 23
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Dips in Pulse Profiles : Partial Covering Absorption 24
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Dips in Pulse Profiles : Partial Covering Absorption 25
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Accretion onto Neutron Star
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Ghosh & Lamb, 1979 Frank, King and Raine: Accretion Power in Astrophysics
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Fermi-GBM, CGRO-BATSE
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From BATSE Bildstein et al. 1997
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Fermi-GBM, CGRO-BATSE
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4U 1626-67: Period Evolution Camero-Arranz et al. 2010
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4U 1626-67: Light Curves 32 Aru Beri et al. 2013
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4U 1626-67: Pulse Profiles 33 Aru Beri et al. 2013
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Accretion torque in 4U 1626-67 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
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Accreting X-ray pulsars Spectrum 35
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Pulsar Cyclotron lines
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Cyclotron lines at different pulse phases
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Pulsar Cyclotron lines Fundamental and harmonic ratio
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Pulsar Cyclotron lines At Different Luminosities 4U 1907+09
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Reprocessing of Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts
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Thermonuclear X-ray Burst Reprocessing 41
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Reprocessing Region ? Hynes et al. 2006
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Reprocessing in EXO 0748-676: XMM-Newton Observations
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X-ray Pulse Reprocessing 4U 1626-67: (Gayathri, Paul, Dipankar, Mohan, 2015)
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Low mass X-ray binaries
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ASTORSAT
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Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (1996-2000)
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Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter
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LAXPC: Effective Area
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Hard X-ray Quasi Periodic Oscillations
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X-ray Polarimetry
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Accreting X-ray Pulsars 54
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Black Hole Accretion Disks 55
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Rotation Powered Pulsars & Magnetars 56
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Detectors 58
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Deep Interplanetary Navigation with X-ray pulsars ISRO HQ - 22 Apr 2014 Becker et al. 2013
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Deep Interplanetary Navigation with X-ray pulsars Becker et al. 2013
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