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Searches for millisecond pulsations in low-mass X-ray binaries

The Astrophysical Journal1991Vol. 379, pp. 295–295

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K. S. Wood, P. Hertz, J. P. Norris, Brian Vaughan, P. F. Michelson, K. Mitsuda, W. H. G. Lewin, J. van Paradijs, W. Penninx, M. van der Klis

Abstract

High-sensitivity search techniques for millisecond periods are presented and applied to data from the Japanese satellite Ginga and HEAO 1. The search is optimized for pulsed signals whose period, drift rate, and amplitude conform with what is expected for low-class X-ray binary (LMXB) sources. Consideration is given to how the current understanding of LMXBs guides the search strategy and sets these parameter limits. An optimized one-parameter coherence recovery technique (CRT) developed for recovery of phase coherence is presented. This technique provides a large increase in sensitivity over the method of incoherent summation of Fourier power spectra. The range of spin periods expected from LMXB phenomenology is discussed, the necessary constraints on the application of CRT are described in terms of integration time and orbital parameters, and the residual power unrecovered by the quadratic approximation for realistic cases is estimated.

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