Timing Neutron Stars

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Pulsar Timing....Pages 3-16
Timing Binary and Millisecond Pulsars....Pages 17-26
Fourier Techniques in X-Ray Timing....Pages 27-69
Deterministic Chaos in Accreting Neutron Star Systems....Pages 71-93
Detection and Description of Periodicities in Sparse Data Suggested Solutions to Some Basic Problems....Pages 95-111
Timing a Millisecond Pulsar Array....Pages 113-117
The Scaling of Radio Pulsar Timing Noise with Spin Parameters....Pages 119-124
Simulation of Interstellar Scattering Effects on Pulsar Timing....Pages 125-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
The Radio Emission from Pulsars....Pages 133-141
A Timing Analysis of the Clifton and Lyne Pulsars....Pages 143-152
Slowdown Rate and Oscillations in the Crab Pulsar....Pages 153-156
A Search for Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters....Pages 157-162
A Millisecond Pulsar in an Eclipsing Binary....Pages 163-168
X-Ray Observations of Accreting Neutron Stars....Pages 169-189
Galactic Populations Of X-Ray Binaries....Pages 191-207
Transient X-Ray Sources with Late-Type Companions....Pages 209-218
Chaotic dynamics in the X-ray variability of Her X-1....Pages 219-224
The X-Ray Source in the Core of 47 Tucanae....Pages 225-241
A New 60-msec X-Ray Pulsar and Its Massive Early-Type Companion....Pages 243-249
Non-Planckian behaviour of burst spectra: dependence of the blackbody radius on the duration of bursts....Pages 251-256
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
X-Ray Spectral Variability of Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries....Pages 257-266
Fractal and Chaotic Time Variation in Cygnus X-1....Pages 267-275
Analysis of the Optical Orbital Lightcurve of the Black Hole Candidate LMC X-3....Pages 277-282
The Luminosity Dependence of the Pulse Period and Profile of the Transient X-ray Pulsar EXO 2030+375....Pages 283-293
Spectral Classifiction of Bright LMXBs with Color-Color Diagrams....Pages 295-304
X-Rays from a Possible Pulsar in Supernova 1987A....Pages 305-315
X-Ray Observations of SN1987A with a Coded Mask Imaging Spectrometer....Pages 317-323
SS433: A Black Hole Candidate?....Pages 325-328
Solitary Neutron Stars as Gamma-Ray Sources....Pages 329-341
Balloon observation of the Crab pulsar in the energy range 0.2–6 MeV....Pages 343-346
Production Sites and Mechanisms of Discrete Gamma-Ray Components of the Vela and Crab Light Curves....Pages 347-356
New Time Signatures in Neutron Stars and Pulse-Height Variability in Crab....Pages 357-362
Search for Linear Polarization in High-Energy γ-Ray Sources....Pages 363-368
VHE Gamma Ray Emission from Centaurus X-3....Pages 369-374
Observation of TeV Gamma-rays from the Crab Nebula and PSR 0531....Pages 375-382
PSR1509–58: A Possible Outer Gap Gamma Ray Source....Pages 383-388
The Origin of High-Energy Radiation from the Crab Pulsar....Pages 389-392
Future U.S. X-Ray Programs Related to Timing Neutron Stars....Pages 393-405
Future European Programs in X-Ray Astronomy....Pages 407-418
Prospects for Pulsar Searches with the Gamma Ray Observatory Gro....Pages 419-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Inside Neutron Stars....Pages 431-440
Vortex Creep Dynamics: Theory and Observations....Pages 441-455
Superfluidity in the Interiors of Neutron Stars....Pages 457-490
Radiation from Cooling Neutron Stars....Pages 491-502
A Model of Pulsar Timing Noise....Pages 503-509
Soliton Stars and the Cosmic X-ray Background....Pages 511-520
Front Matter....Pages 521-521
Stellar Evolution and the Formation of Neutron Stars in Binary Systems....Pages 523-548
Core Collapse With Rotation And Neutron Star Formation....Pages 549-572
Neutron Star Evolution and the Birth Properties of Radio Pulsars....Pages 573-591
X-Ray Binaries and Radiopulsars in Globular Clusters....Pages 593-608
The Evolution of Pulsars....Pages 609-625
The Origin of Pulsar Velocities and the Velocity Magnetic Moment Correlation....Pages 627-629
The White Dwarf-Neutron Star Connection....Pages 631-640
Pulsar Turn-On and Secondary Evaporation in the PSR 1957 + 20 Binary....Pages 641-645
Front Matter....Pages 647-647
Accretion by Magnetic Neutron Stars....Pages 649-722
Self-Consistent Modelling of Pulsar Magnetospheres....Pages 723-729
Smearing of X-Ray Oscillations by Electron Scattering....Pages 731-737
Iterative Scattering Approach to Radiative Transfer....Pages 739-742
Radiative transfer in optically thick plasmas of accretion columns....Pages 743-747
A model for spherically symmetric accretion onto neutron stars....Pages 749-756
Back Matter....Pages 757-774