Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars and super-Eddington accretion

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• Felix Fürst, ESAC
• Wednesday 10 July 2019, 13:45-14:15
• Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr George Lansbury.

Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars (ULXPs) are a relatively new class of accreting neutron stars, that can reach luminosities up to a factor of 500 above their Eddington limit. These extreme luminosity and implied accretion rate challenges our current understanding of accretion flows onto compact objects. I will give a brief overview over the known ULX Ps and discuss their physical properties, in particular their pulse period evolution and their magnetic field. I will highlight open questions and paths forward to answer them.

This talk is part of the Institute of Astronomy Seminars series.

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