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Measuring the spin up of the Accreting Millisecond Pulsar XTE J1751-305

Authors :
Papitto, A.
Menna, M. T.
Burderi, L.
Di Salvo, T.
Riggio, A.
Publication Year :
2007

Abstract

We perform a timing analysis on RXTE data of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1751-305 observed during the April 2002 outburst. After having corrected for Doppler effects on the pulse phases due to the orbital motion of the source, we performed a timing analysis on the phase delays, which gives, for the first time for this source, an estimate of the average spin frequency derivative <nu_dot> = (3.7 +/- 1.0)E-13 Hz/s. We discuss the torque resulting from the spin-up of the neutron star deriving a dynamical estimate of the mass accretion rate and comparing it with the one obtained from X-ray flux. Constraints on the distance to the source are discussed, leading to a lower limit of \sim 6.7 kpc.<br />Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication by MNRAS

Subjects

Subjects :
Astrophysics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.0710.1215
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12551.x