J 2020

The INTEGRAL view of the pulsating hard X-ray sky: from accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars to rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars

PAPITTO, A., M. FALANGA, W. HERMSEN, S. MEREGHETTI, L. KUIPER et. al.

Basic information

Original name

The INTEGRAL view of the pulsating hard X-ray sky: from accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars to rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars

Authors

PAPITTO, A., M. FALANGA, W. HERMSEN, S. MEREGHETTI, L. KUIPER, J. POUTANEN, E. BOZZO, F. AMBROSINO, F. COTI ZELATI, Vittorio DE FALCO (380 Italy, belonging to the institution), D. DE MARTINO, T. DI SALVO, P. ESPOSITO, C. FERRIGNO, M. FOROT, D. GÖTZ, C. GOUIFFES, R. IARIA, P. LAURENT, J. LI, Z. LI, T. MINEO, P. MORAN, A. NERONOV, A. PAIZIS, N. REA, A. RIGGIO, A. SANNA, V. SAVCHENKO, A. SŁOWIKOWSKA, A. SHEARER, A. TIENGO and D. F. TORRES

Edition

New Astronomy Reviews, 2020, 1387-6473

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19630/20:A0000094

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

UT WoS

000598886100001

Keywords in English

Accretion disks; Magnetars; Neutron stars; Pulsars; X-rays: binaries; X-rays: bursts

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 23/3/2021 18:20, RNDr. Jan Hladík, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

In the last 25 years a new generation of X-ray satellites imparted a significant leap forward in our knowledge of X-ray pulsars. The discovery of accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars proved that disk accretion can spin up a neutron star to a very high rotation speed. The detection of MeV-GeV pulsed emission from a few hundreds of rotation-powered pulsars probed particle acceleration in the outer magnetosphere, or even beyond. Also, a population of two dozens of magnetars has emerged. INTEGRAL played a central role to achieve these results by providing instruments with high temporal resolution up to the hard X-ray/soft, gamma-ray band and a large field of view imager with good angular resolution to spot hard X-ray transients. In this article we review the main contributions by INTEGRAL to our understanding of the pulsating hard X-ray sky, such as the discovery and characterization of several accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars, the generation of the first catalog of hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray rotation-powered pulsars, the detection of polarization in the hard X-ray emission from the Crab pulsar, and the discovery of persistent hard X-ray emission from several magnetars.