Abstract
This study comprehensively analyzes type I X-ray bursts observed by Swift/BAT from 2005 to April 2024 to search for X-ray burst oscillations (XBOs) in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. XBOs, periodic signals detected within type I X-ray bursts, typically range from 11 to 620 Hz and are often observed in the soft X-ray data of these bursts. Using the high-sensitivity and precise timing capabilities of the Swift/BAT, we found 50 type I X-ray bursts from 37 neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. We conducted a detailed timing analysis of these bursts. For sources with known burst oscillation frequencies, our findings largely corroborate previous studies. However, many sources displayed low confidence levels in the oscillation signals, with values between 10 and 20. For sources without known oscillation/spin frequencies, we utilized FFT analysis to search for signals across a broad frequency range. This approach revealed potential oscillation signals, with several bursts showing significance levels exceeding , including those from MAXI J1421–613, XTE J1701–407, XMM J174457–2850.3, Swift J1734.5–3027, IGR J17473–2721, Swift J174805.3–244637, Swift J181723.1–164300, and X 1832–330.
1 Introduction
The X-ray emissions from low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) arise from the accretion processes surrounding compact objects such as neutron stars (NS) or black holes. In the case of NS, the accreted hydrogen, helium, or mixture of them can be consumed via unstable nuclear burning on the stellar surface, leading to the observed type I X-ray bursts ().
X-ray burst oscillations (XBOs), identified through timing analysis, are periodic signals observed during bursts originating from the NS rotation (Strohmayer et al., 1996; ). A type I X-ray burst can form a hot spot on the NS surface, leading to an uneven temperature distribution. The star’s rotation modulates this uneven distribution, producing periodic signals in the soft X-ray band (Strohmayer et al., 1997b; ). The standard methods for XBO detection include a fast Fourier transform (FFT) or statistics (see Watts, 2012, and references therein). During a burst, the oscillation frequency of XBOs evolves (). To effectively search for and track XBO signals, the dynamic power density spectrum method is commonly used to analyze type I X-ray bursts (e.g., Strohmayer et al., 2008).
However, the mechanisms behind the formation and evolution of these hot spots remain incompletely understood. Proposed surface modes, such as the Rossby model, suggest that type I X-ray bursts can excite oscillations in the NS ocean (). A temperature gradient forms at different heights on the star’s surface, and the star’s rotation modulates this gradient to produce XBOs (; Watts, 2012; ). Nonetheless, these models only partially explain the observed XBO phenomena, necessitating further study into their physical processes and model interpretations.
Detecting XBO signals requires high-energy X-ray telescopes with high timing resolution, large effective areas for substantial photon accumulation, and minimal dead-time effects. Previous searches for XBO signals have utilized data from RXTE (Strohmayer, 1999; 2001; ) and NICER (; ). Observations have shown that oscillation signals in most bursts exhibit an upward frequency drift and generally occur during the burst’s tail. In some burst samples, oscillation signals have such high amplitudes that the accretion pulsar’s oscillating frequency diverges from the pulsar’s rotation frequency by a few hertz (e.g., ).
Up until now, 349 galactic NS LMXBs have been found and the number is increasing (). However, less than 10% of these sources have had their spin frequency and burst oscillation measured. Detecting burst oscillations from sources with unknown spin frequencies, or from newly discovered sources, will expand the sample of accreting pulsars (). This will allow for a more credible study of the spin frequency distribution, and for searching coherent X-ray pulsation during outbursts. Additionally, among these unknown sources, there may be neutron stars spinning faster than 716 Hz, which would impose stronger constraints on the equation of state of compact stellar objects.
In’t Zand et al. (2019) carried out a comprehensive searching and spectral analysis of type I X-ray bursts from Galactic NSs observed by Swift BAT/XRT. They identified 28 X-ray bursts for which BAT event data were available. In this paper, we search the Swift/BAT archives for triggered events of LMXBs from 2005 to April 2024 and perform timing analysis to search burst oscillation. We introduce the observations and data analysis methods in Sect. 2. We provide the results of the type I X-ray burst oscillation in Sect. 3. In Sect. 4, we discuss and summarize the results.
2 Observations and data analysis
The Swift/BAT triggering system is designed to identify gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and other fast transients in high energy from various sources, including black holes, NSs, and magnetars. In this study, we found 50 non-GRB events from the GCN Notice Archive. These events are from 37 distinct sources, with 22 triggers related to NS LMXBs exhibiting X-ray burst oscillations or coherent pulsations, and the remaining samples involving NS LMXBs without known spin frequency. The absolute timing accuracy, 0.1 m of the recorded event files allows us to perform timing analysys. The Swift/BAT data were processed using the batgrbproduct command, and 1-s binned light curves were extracted in the 13–20 keV energy band. Subsequently, the batbinevt command was employed to transform the event data for each X-ray burst into a mask-weighted (background-subtracted) light curve in the 13–20 keV band. The burst peak flux and duration were determined by analyzing these light curves, with the duration, , defined as the time interval during which the cumulative photon count increases from 5% to 95% of the total count (). The light curves of all 50 bursts are displayed in Figure1.
FIGURE 1
Type I X-ray burst sources were categorized based on the presence or absence of previously detected XBOs or coherent pulsations. For the sources without known spin frequency, our analysis of bursts is explained as follows.
Initially, we applied FFT to the event files from each burst, segmenting the analysis into 4-s intervals with a step size of 0.5 s. For each window, statistically independent FFT was recorded between 10 and 2000 Hz with a step of 0.25 Hz. The light curve of duration is evenly divided into channels, where , and is an integer. The time series, , represents the number of photons in the th channel, where ranges from 0 to . Following , we computed the Leahy-normalized power spectrum for each segment,where is the total number of photons. We then obtain the frequency of the oscillation signal according to the power spectrum.
Oscillation signal confirmation is applied using statistic. We employ the statistic on the 13–20 keV event data to confirm the presence of oscillation signals. This method is more computationally intensive than FFT but offers higher frequency precision. The statistic is defined as follows ():where is the harmonic number. Since the first harmonic provides the strongest signal strength and contains most of the dynamic information, we adopt . And is the photon phase defined aswhere is the reference time, is the arrival time of the photon relative to , and represents a constant frequency model. When does not change with time, . The maximum value of on the dynamic power spectrum and its corresponding frequency were identified.
For sources with previously identified XBOs or coherent pulsations, a dynamic power spectrum was generated by applying the statistic around the known oscillation frequency ( Hz), with analysis intervals set to 4 s and a 0.125-s step size.
We evaluated the confidence level for all burst oscillation signals. The total number of trials is , with representing the number of time bins and representing the number of frequency bins. According to , the single-trial chance probability is given by the survival function , where is the maximized or . The confidence level is determined as (). For the statistics, we assessed the probability that the signal measured in trials was solely produced by noise ().
In addition to the oscillation frequency, the power spectrum contains information about the pulse amplitude. For the Leahy-normalized power spectrum, the root mean square (RMS) amplitude is defined as follows,where and represent the total and the background photon counts, respectively.
3 Results
Based on Equations 1–4, we carried out the XBO searching. The results of the two categories of burst sources are summarized in Tables 1, 2. Definitions of burst parameters follow those provided by in’t Zand et al. (2019).
TABLE 1
| Object | Trigger number | Observation date (UTC) | Peak count rate (c ) | (s) | (Hz) | Max of | 1 prob (%) | Referenceb | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAX J1750.82900 | 00,659,734 | 2015-10-16 01:25:59 | 0.04 | 28.0 | 600 | 14.84 | |||
| 00,310,319 | 2008-04-27 18:35:45 | 0.03 | 29.3 | 11.37 | |||||
| IGR J00291 + 5934 | 00,650,221 | 2015-07-25 02:12:05 | 0.08 | 15.5 | 598.89 | 20.98 | 0.8 | ||
| Swift J1749.42807 | 00,213,190 | 2006-06-02 23:54:34 | 0.07 | 13.0 | 518 | 14.28 | |||
| 4U 0614 + 09 | 00,273,106 | 2007-03-30 08:53:21 | 0.13 | 19.3 | 415 | 13.80 | Strohmayer et al. (2008) | ||
| 00,234,849 | 2006-10-21 09:02:00 | 0.16 | 26.0 | 40.37 | 99.99 | 4.4 | |||
| 00,631,747 | 2015-02-19 16:42:24 | 0.17 | 5.0 | 10.81 | |||||
| 4U 1636536 | 00,143,840 | 2005-07-02 09:01:17 | 0.03 | 9.0 | 581 | 11.94 | Strohmayer et al. (1998) | ||
| 4U 1702429 | 00,279,418 | 2007-05-16 21:00:25 | 0.05 | 10.0 | 329 | 15.23 | Strohmayer and Markwardt (2002) | ||
| 00,144,067 | 2005-07-03 20:29:23 | 0.05 | 11.3 | 23.56 | 92.6 | 1.7 | |||
| 4U 172834 | 00,147,029 | 2005-07-21 11:14:30 | 0.04 | 23.8 | 363 | 11.54 | |||
| IGR J170626143 | 00,525,148 | 2012-06-25 22:42:32 | 0.04 | 299 | 163 | 21.28 | 1 | ||
| KS 1741293 | 00,502,024 | 2011-09-01 12:07:22 | 0.03 | 14.0 | 589 | 11.55 | Strohmayer et al. (1997a) | ||
| IGR J175113057 | 00,371,210 | 2009-09-30 18:31:57 | 0.04 | 9.3 | 245 | 11.37 | |||
| SAX J1808.43658 | 00,325,827 | 2008-09-24 20:14:24 | 0.09 | 11.0 | 401 | 17.92 | |||
| 00,637,765 | 2015-04-11 19:36:25 | 0.12 | 12.5 | 14.36 | |||||
| SAX J1810.82609 | 00,291,218 | 2007-09-16 15:54:17 | 0.06 | 12.0 | 532 | 13.15 | |||
| 00,292,421 | 2007-09-27 15:09:44 | 0.03 | 12.0 | 13.69 | |||||
| 00,287,042 | 2007-08-05 11:27:26 | 0.07 | 20.5 | 16.13 | |||||
| HETE 1900.12455 | 00,152,451 | 2005-08-28 15:09:37 | 0.08 | 2.0 | 376.25 | 14.03 | Watts et al. (2009) | ||
| 00,150,823 | 2005-08-17 12:19:58 | 0.06 | 19.3 | 21.51 | 90.59 | 1.6 | |||
| Aql X1 | 00,291,524 | 2007-09-19 07:56:35 | 0.06 | 14.3 | 549 | 10.10 | Zhang et al. (1998) |
The source of XBO has been detected.
Note—Observation Date is the start time of trigger.
TABLE 2
| Object | Trigger number | Observation date (UTC) | Peak count rate (c ) | (s) | (Hz) | Max of | Chance probability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2S 0918549 | 00,205,373 | 2006-04-15 03:38:09 | 0.06 | 15.0 | 774.06 | 23.64 | 2.2 | |
| 1A 1246588 | 00,223,918 | 2006-08-11 02:59:56 | 0.05 | 54.8 | 607.60 | 30.05 | 2.8 | |
| MAXI J1421613 | 00,584,155 | 2014-01-18 08:39:20 | 0.03 | 14.8 | 474.39 | 31.47 | 3.5 | |
| 4U 154362 | 01,220,736 | 2024-04-08 15:13:54 | 0.05 | 27.0 | 611.88 | 18.05 | ||
| XTE J1701407 | 00,317,205 | 2008-07-17 13:30:00 | 0.07 | 72.3 | 546.57 | 33.36 | 3.2 | |
| 00,318,166 | 2008-07-27 22:31:20 | 0.05 | 12.8 | 838.71 | 24.40 | 2.5 | ||
| 00,813,449 | 2018-03-09 18:20:35 | 0.07 | 102.5 | 645.19 | 30.11 | 2.6 | ||
| SAX 1712.63739 | 00,426,405 | 2010-07-01 14:55:41 | 0.04 | 34.8 | 491.67 | 26.53 | 2.4 | |
| 00,504,101 | 2011-09-26 20:11:29 | 0.05 | 234 | 863.40 | 28.81 | 2.0 | ||
| 00,609,878 | 2014-08-18 17:10:04 | 0.05 | 29.8 | 727.93 | 27.39 | 2.6 | ||
| XMM J1744572850.3 | 00,530,588 | 2012-08-11 04:43:54 | 0.05 | 4.3 | 757.70 | 25.21 | 3.6 | |
| Swift J1734.53027 | 00,569,022 | 2013-09-01 09:13:17 | 0.05 | 137.3 | 264.80 | 34.00 | 3.1 | |
| 1RXH J173523.7354013 | 00,311,603 | 2008-05-14 10:32:37 | 0.04 | 217.8 | 905.90 | 30.26 | 2.4 | |
| SAX J1747.02853 | 00,202,662 | 2006-03-25 00:53:03 | 0.03 | 14.8 | 334.78 | 23.84 | 2.3 | |
| IGR J174732721 | 00,308,196 | 2008-03-31 09:03:33 | 0.06 | 14.8 | 352.29 | 31.99 | 3.5 | |
| Swift J174805.3244637 | 00,530,808 | 2012-08-13 09:13:34 | 0.04 | 20.8 | 163.54 | 32.38 | 3.5 | |
| SLX 1735-269 | 01,114,148 | 2022-07-02 01:53:06 | 0.04 | 407.5 | 177.26 | 31.41 | 2.3 | |
| Swift J1749.42807 | 00,213,190 | 2006-06-02 23:54:34 | 0.07 | 13.0 | 651.03 | 25.05 | 2.6 | |
| SAX J1806.52215 | 00,745,022 | 2017-04-01 19:00:53 | 0.03 | 197.5 | 384.98 | 27.85 | 1.9 | |
| MAXI J1807132 | 00,924,641 | 2019-09-10 07:02:29 | 0.05 | 17.5 | 226.26 | 26.28 | 2.6 | |
| XTE J18104189 | 00,306,737 | 2008-03-18 22:32:52 | 0.02 | 9.0 | 332.07 | 21.34 | 2.1 | |
| 00,455,640 | 2011-06-19 00:59:37 | 0.03 | 183.3 | 511.99 | 32.35 | 2.8 | ||
| 4U 181212 | 00,106,799 | 2005-02-24 12:40:45 | 0.06 | 27.8 | 241.77 | 25.08 | 2.2 | |
| Swift J181723.1164300 | 00,765,081 | 2017-07-28 16:57:58 | 0.05 | 9.75 | 946.60 | 34.01 | 4.0 | |
| X 1832330 | 00,280,846 | 2007-05-30 07:44:15 | 0.02 | 8.8 | 44.75 | 30.36 | 3.5 | |
| Swift J185003.2005627 | 00,456,014 | 2011-06-25 00:06:08 | 0.07 | 16.0 | 204.58 | 24.56 | 2.4 | |
| 4U 1850087 | 00,591,237 | 2014-03-10 21:05:00 | 0.05 | 616 | 382.11 | 26.03 | 1 | |
| Swift J1922.71716 | 00,506,913 | 2011-11-03 14:12:13 | 0.06 | 22.0 | 204.58 | 24.56 | 2.2 |
Sources without previously detected XBOs.
Note—Observation Date is the start time of trigger.
3.1 Individual sources with detected XBO or coherent pulsation
For sources with previously detected XBOs or coherent pulsations, we analyzed the bursts to determine the maximum
values and their confidence levels. Most bursts did not exhibit significant signals near the known frequencies, with confidence levels below
. Here, we only provide the details for several LMXBs.
HETE 1900.12455. HETE 1900.12455 is an X-ray source discovered by the High Energy Transient Detector-2 (HETE-2 Vanderspek et al., 2005). reported an orbital period of 83.3 min for this system, with the companion star likely being a Roche lobe-filling brown dwarf. Additionally, the distance to the source estimated from X-ray bursts is between 4.3 and 4.7 kpc (Suzuki et al., 2007; ). Watts et al. (2009) identified an oscillation signal at a frequency of 377 Hz from HETE J1900.1–2455 using RXTE and Swift data. We extended this study to include two bursts observed by Swift/BAT, focusing on the frequency range of 375–379 Hz. The maximum values recorded were 14.02 and 21.51 near 376.5 Hz. The oscillation signal from the burst on 17 August 2005, was significant at the level.
4U 1702429. The X-ray burster 4U 1702–429 (also known as Ara X–1) was discovered in 1976 by the Eighth Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO-8) and later classified as an atoll source using EXOSAT data. estimated the distance to be kpc using photospheric radius expansion bursts. The NS has a radius of km and a mass of (Varun et al., 2024). identified the burst oscillation signal at 329 Hz from RXTE data. Our analysis of two bursts from 4U 1702–429 observed by Swift/BAT focused on the 327–331 Hz frequency range. We determined the maximum values around 328.75–329.25 Hz to be 15.23 and 23.56, with the burst in July 2005 exhibiting a significance level of .
4U 0614 + 09. 4U 0614 + 09 is an X-ray burster and persistent low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) located in the direction of the anti-galactic center at a distance of approximately 3.2 kpc (). Strohmayer et al. (2008) detected an XBO from 4U 0614 + 09 at 414.75 Hz in the tail of one of two bursts. This was the first XBO found using Swift/BAT, suggesting a spin frequency of 415 Hz. reported a bright thermonuclear X-ray burst observed by GECAM on 24 January 2021, and found a burst oscillation of 413 Hz consistent with Strohmayer et al. (2008). We searched three bursts from 4U 0614 + 09 observed by Swift/BAT in the 413–417 Hz frequency range. The maximum values were 13.80, 40.37 (99.99879 4.4 ), and 10.81. The XBO of the second burst is consistent with earlier findings by Strohmayer et al. (2008).
IGR J170626143. IGR J17062–6143 is an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar with a spin frequency of 163.65 Hz (). We found no significant oscillation signal near 163 Hz, with the maximum value near 163 Hz being 21.28.
3.2 Sources without previously detected XBOs
We perform FFT timing analysis for sources without known spin frequency by selecting photon arrival times within the 13–20 keV energy band to identify potential burst oscillation signals. The FFT powers for 11 LMXBs are shown below.
2S 0918549. identified 2S 0918549 as an ultra-compact X-ray binary (UCXB) with an orbital period of 17.4 min. This source exhibited a high neon-to-oxygen abundance ratio, suggesting a CO or ONe white dwarf companion star. in’t Zand et al. (2005) proposed the companion to be a helium white dwarf. Zhong and Wang (2011) reported a type I X-ray burst in 2006 with an oscillation signal candidate at a frequency of 774.06 Hz. Applying the statistic in the 772–776 Hz, we obtained a maximum of 23.64, corresponding to a single-trial chance probability of .
MAXI J1421613. MAXI J1421–613 is a soft transient X-ray burster discovered by the MAXI Nova Alert system on 9 January 2014, (). For the type I X-ray burst observed by Swift in 2014, the frequency of the suspected oscillation signal after FFT processing was 474.39 Hz. The maximum was 31.47, with a single-trial chance probability of . The statistical test, applied within the 472–476 Hz frequency range, identified a peak value of 29.71.
XTE J1701407. XTE J1701–407 is a transient X-ray source discovered by RXTE on 8 June 2008 (). placed an upper limit on the distance to the source at 6.1 kpc based on the maximum luminosity reached by the burst. Analysis of three bursts observed by Swift revealed potential oscillation signal frequencies of 546.57, 838.71, and 645.19 Hz after FFT processing. The corresponding maximum values were 33.36, 24.40, and 30.11, with significance levels of , , and , respectively.
XMM J1744572850.3. XMM J174457–2850.3 is a transient X-ray source near the Galactic center (). For the type I X-ray burst observed by Swift/BAT in 2012, the frequency of the potential oscillation signal after FFT processing was 757.70 Hz. The maximum value was 25.51, with a significance level of .
Swift J1734.53027. Swift J1734.5–3027 is a hard X-ray transient discovered by Swift during its September 2013 outburst (). For its burst in 2013, the potential oscillation signal was 264.80 Hz. The maximum value obtained by FFT was 34.00, with a significance level of .
IGR J174732721. The X-ray transient source IGR J17473–2721 was discovered in an April 2005 burst by the International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) in the Galactic Centre region (). For the type I X-ray burst observed by Swift in 2008, FFT analysis identified a potential oscillation signal at 352.29 Hz. The maximum value obtained was 31.99, with a significance level of . The potential burst oscillation signal was detected during the burst’s tail phase.
Swift J174805.3244637. Swift J174805.3244637, a transient LMXB located within the Terzan 5 globular cluster, exhibited a type I X-ray burst in 2012. FFT analysis revealed an oscillation signal at 163.52 Hz. The statistical test, applied within the 161–165 Hz range, produced a maximum value of 32.38, corresponding to a significance level of .
SLX 1735269. SLX 1735–269, identified as an ultra-compact X-ray binary candidate (), was discovered in 1985 during the Spacelab 2 mission as a persistent X-ray source in the energy range 3–30 keV (). FFT analysis of Swift/BAT data from 2022 revealed an oscillation signal at 177.26 Hz, with a maximum value of 31.41.
MAXI J1807 + 132. MAXI J1807 + 132 is an X-ray transient discovered by the nova-search system of MAXI on 13 March 2017 (). Swift observed a type I X-ray burst from this source in 2015. FFT processing indicated a suspected oscillation signal at 226.26 Hz, with a maximum value of 26.28 and a significance level of .
Swift J181723.1164300. reported that at 16:57:57 UT on 28 July 2017, Swift/BAT triggered and located the source Swift J181723.1–164300. Moreover, Swift/BAT detected a burst and certified the source as a new bursting NS low-mass X-ray binary. FFT analysis of the 2017 burst revealed an oscillation frequency of 946.60 Hz, with a peak value of 34.01 and a significance level of 4.2 . A subsequent test near the oscillation frequency found a maximum value of 37.33.
X 1832330. The source was discovered by the High Energy Astronomy Observatory-1 (HEAO-1) (), and is one of the brightest LMXBs in galactic globular clusters. proposed a candidate orbital period of 2.15 h for X 1832–330 based on a 6.5-h observation of the optical counterpart with the Gemini South telescope. Analysis of type I X-ray bursts recorded by Swift in 2007 revealed an oscillation signal at 775.76 Hz through FFT processing. The peak value observed was 30.36, corresponding to a significance level of .
4 Discussion
This study provides an extensive analysis of Swift/BAT observations of NS LMXBs over nearly two decades, from 2005 to April 2024. Our dataset comprised 50 type I X-ray bursts, with 21 previously analyzed for burst oscillation signals and 29 newly found. The analysis focused on both sources with previously detected XBOs or coherent pulsations and sources without prior detections, applying FFT and statistical techniques to identify potential oscillation signals.
For the bursts with known oscillation signals, our analysis confirmed previously reported results, such as the case of 4U 0614 + 09 in 2007 exhibited a significant oscillation signal (Strohmayer et al., 2008). However, most of the bursts showed values between 10 and 20, indicating low confidence levels for the detected oscillation signals.
For sources without known spin frequencies, we employed FFT analysis to search for burst oscillation signals. The detected oscillation candidates spanned a wide frequency range from 40 to 950 Hz, with maximum values varying between 28 and 34. Most of these signals had significance levels below . Exceptions included MAXI J1421–613, XTE J1701–407, XMM J174457–2850.3, Swift J1734.5–3027, IGR J17473–2721, Swift J174805.3–244637, Swift J181723.1–164300, and X 1832–330, all of which showed significance levels greater than . Of particular interest is the burst from Swift J181723.1–164300 observed in 2007, which exhibited a significance level exceeding at a frequency of 946 Hz. The oscillation signal in this burst was prominently observed during its initial rise and subsequent decay phases. If the burst oscillation frequency is confirmed in the future, this source hosts the highest spinning NS.
While theoretical models exist to explain X-ray burst oscillations (XBOs), they do not fully account for all observed phenomena. This highlights the necessity for continued observational efforts, enhanced theoretical models, and comprehensive analyses. Recent advancements in observational technology and analytical methodologies have considerably improved our capability to detect and analyze XBOs.
Future research will benefit from combining data from multiple observatories and utilizing advanced statistical methods to enhance the sensitivity and reliability of burst oscillation detection. Considering the low occurrence rate of burst oscillations, observing more bursts will help increase the number of burst oscillation detection. The anticipated contributions from next-generation telescopes, such as eXTP, THESEUS, ATHENA (Zhang et al., 2019; ; ), are expected to significantly enhance our observational capabilities. These telescopes, equipped with instruments featuring large effective collecting areas, wide fields of view, and high timing accuracy in the soft X-ray band, will allow for more precise measurements of neutron star properties. These advantages will enable more precise measurements of NS properties, thereby providing tighter constraints on the equation of state of dense matter. Such efforts are providing unprecedented opportunities to study XBOs with greater precision and are essential for refining theoretical models of XBOs and advancing our understanding of these complex phenomena.
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Q-XL: Writing–original draft, Writing–review and editing. ZL: Writing–original draft, Writing–review and editing. Y-YP: Writing–original draft, Writing–review and editing. MF: Writing–review and editing.
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Summary
Keywords
neutron star binaries, neutron star (NS), x-ray burst, burst oscillation, x-ray timing
Citation
Li Q-X, Li Z, Pan Y-Y and Falanga M (2024) Search for thermonuclear burst oscillations in the Swift/BAT data set. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 11:1477677. doi: 10.3389/fspas.2024.1477677
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08 August 2024
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Yongfeng Huang, Nanjing University, China
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Antonio Martin-Carrillo, University College Dublin, Ireland
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