TY - JOUR
T1 - The INTEGRAL view of the pulsating hard X-ray sky: from accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars to rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars
AU - Di Salvo, Tiziana
AU - Iaria, Rosario
AU - Esposito, null
AU - Riggio, null
AU - Falanga, null
AU - Paizis, null
AU - Savchenko, null
AU - Bozzo, null
AU - Rea, null
AU - Sanna, null
AU - Laurent, null
AU - Coti Zelati, Francesco
AU - Götz, null
AU - Moran, null
AU - Słowikowska, null
AU - Tiengo, Andrea
AU - Li, Zhaosheng
AU - Li, null
AU - Ambrosino, null
AU - De Falco, null
AU - Gouiffes, null
AU - Neronov, null
AU - Hermsen, Wim
AU - De Martino, null
AU - Kuiper, null
AU - Poutanen, null
AU - Shearer, null
AU - Mereghetti, null
AU - Torres, null
AU - Papitto, null
AU - Ferrigno, null
AU - Forot, null
AU - Mineo, null
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In the last 25 years a new generation of X-ray satellites imparted a significant leap forward in our knowledge of X-ray pulsars. The discovery of accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars proved that disk accretion can spin up a neutron star to a very high rotation speed. The detection of MeV-GeV pulsed emission from a few hundreds of rotation-powered pulsars probed particle acceleration in the outer magnetosphere, or even beyond. Also, a population of two dozens of magnetars has emerged. INTEGRAL played a central role to achieve these results by providing instruments with high temporal resolution up to the hard X-ray/soft, γ-ray band and a large field of view imager with good angular resolution to spot hard X-ray transients. In this article we review the main contributions by INTEGRAL to our understanding of the pulsating hard X-ray sky, such as the discovery and characterization of several accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars, the generation of the first catalog of hard X-ray/soft γ-ray rotation-powered pulsars, the detection of polarization in the hard X-ray emission from the Crab pulsar, and the discovery of persistent hard X-ray emission from several magnetars.
AB - In the last 25 years a new generation of X-ray satellites imparted a significant leap forward in our knowledge of X-ray pulsars. The discovery of accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars proved that disk accretion can spin up a neutron star to a very high rotation speed. The detection of MeV-GeV pulsed emission from a few hundreds of rotation-powered pulsars probed particle acceleration in the outer magnetosphere, or even beyond. Also, a population of two dozens of magnetars has emerged. INTEGRAL played a central role to achieve these results by providing instruments with high temporal resolution up to the hard X-ray/soft, γ-ray band and a large field of view imager with good angular resolution to spot hard X-ray transients. In this article we review the main contributions by INTEGRAL to our understanding of the pulsating hard X-ray sky, such as the discovery and characterization of several accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars, the generation of the first catalog of hard X-ray/soft γ-ray rotation-powered pulsars, the detection of polarization in the hard X-ray emission from the Crab pulsar, and the discovery of persistent hard X-ray emission from several magnetars.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/447255
M3 - Article
VL - 91
SP - 101544-
JO - New Astronomy Reviews
JF - New Astronomy Reviews
SN - 1387-6473
ER -