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Accretion-powered X-ray pulsars.

Nagase, Fumiaki

This paper gives an overview of X-ray pulsars powered by the accretion of matter from a companion star in a close binary system. Recent advances in studies of X-ray pulsars are reviewed, with a special focus on the results of observations by the Hakucho and Tenma satellites. Some topics revealed by the Ginga satellite in the last one-and-a-half ye…