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

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

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