Astrophysical: Neutron stars

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    Probing Jet Launching in Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries: The Variable and Polarized Jet of SAX J1808.4-3658
    We report on an optical photometric and polarimetric campaign on the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2019 outburst. The...
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    PSR J1744-3922: Hint of a New Binary Pulsar Class
    Standard binary evolution models of pulsars in very circular orbits can explain systems with lighter companions and weaker magnetic fields: they are descended...
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    Radio non-detection of SAX J1808.4-3658
    We have observed the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 in its current outburst (ATel #1728, #1732, #1733) in the radio band with the Australia...
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    Radio upper limits for the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17511-3057
    We report on recent radio observations of the newly-detected accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar, IGR J17511-3057 (ATels #2196, #2197, #2198, #2199, #2215, #2216...
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    Re-brightening of XMMSL1 J171900.4-353217
    We continued our Swift-XRT monitoring of the new very-faint X-ray source XMMSL1 J171900.4-353217 [ATel #2607, #2656]. Two new observations were obtained on Jun...
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    Recent optical variability in LSI +61 303
    We have been monitoring the optical counterpart of the TeV emitting binary LSI +61 303 (V615 Cas) since November 2005 with the Faulkes Telescope North (on...
  • Talk
    Reflections on the discovery of pulsars
    In this talk I will summarise the events that led to the discovery of the first four pulsars, recount several instances where pulsars were almost discovered and...
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    Relativistic Hartree description of dense matter. Applications to neutron stars.
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    Renewed activity of the neutron star X-ray transient SAX J1747.0-2853
    An X-ray transient was detected in outburst on 18 October 2005 during one of our Chandra/HRC-I observations as part of the XMM-Newton/Chandra monitoring...