NICER Discovers the Ultracompact Orbit of the Accreting Millisecond Pulsar IGR J17062–6143

We present results of recent Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) IGR J17062-6143 that show that it resides in a circular, ultracompact binary with a 38-minute orbital period. NICER observed the source for ≈26 ks over a 5.3-...

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Main Authors: Strohmayer, T. E., Arzoumanian, Z., Bogdanov, S., Bult, P. M., Enoto, T., Gendreau, K. C., Guillot, S., Harding, A. K., Ho, W. C. G., Homan, J., Jaisawal, G. K., Keek, L., Kerr, M., Mahmoodifar, S., Markwardt, C. B., Ransom, S. M., Ray, P. S., Wolff, M. T., Chakrabarty, Deepto, Remillard, Ronald A
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Astronomical Society 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120998
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8804-8946