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
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.