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

Article in a journal

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

Netherlands

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.286

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19630/20:A0000094

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

UT WoS

000598886100001

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85096659420

Keywords in English

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

Tags

Tags

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

Abstract

In the original language

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.