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Two Modes of Disc Accretion in X-ray Pulsars?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
Abstract
In this paper I compare the properties of the Be/X-ray transients to those of disc accreting X-ray pulsars that show torque reversals without significant changes in the X-ray fluxes. I find that it is unlikely that the cause of the torque reversal is a radiation-induced warp in the accretion disc. The preferred explanations of the phenomenon is that either there is an intrinsic difference in the properties of the neutron stars between the two groups of objects, or that the torque reversals appear in systems in which the accretion disc is formed from a stellar wind.
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