Accreting millisecond pulsars: one on each hand
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We report on the X-ray aperiodic timing analysis of two accreting millisecond pulsars: XTE J1807–294 and IGR J00291+5934. On the one hand, we discovered in XTE J1807–294 seven pairs of simultaneous kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) separated in frequency by nearly the spin frequency of the neutron star. This confirms the suspected dichotomy in the frequency separation of kHz QPOs: sometimes once and sometimes half the spin frequency. On the other hand, we found an extreme behavior in the power spectra of IGR J00291+5934: very strong variability at very low frequencies. Namely, the fractional amplitude of the variability was ∼50%, the highest value found so far in a neutron star system.
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