New accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar discovered

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 10:11 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—A new accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) has been found in one of our galaxy's most massive clusters, NGC 2808. The newly detected AMXP received designation MAXI J0911-655 and is part of an ultra-compact binary system. A paper describing the discovery was published Nov. 9 on the arXiv pre-print server.

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