{"id":367431,"date":"2017-08-31T05:51:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T09:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20170008025"},"modified":"2017-08-31T05:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T09:51:24","slug":"where-are-the-r-modes-chandra-observations-of-millisecond-pulsars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=367431","title":{"rendered":"Where are the r-modes? Chandra Observations of Millisecond Pulsars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: We present the results of Chandra observations of two non-accreting millisecond pulsars, PSRs J1640+2224(J1640) and J1709+2313 (J1709), with low inferred magnetic fields and spin-down rates in order to constrain their surface temperatures, obtain limits on the amplitude of unstable r-modes in them, and make comparisons with similar limits obtained for a sample of accreting low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) neutron stars. We detect both pulsars in the X-ray band for the first time. They are faint, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: We present the results of Chandra observations of two non-accreting millisecond pulsars, PSRs J1640+2224(J1640) and J1709+2313 (J1709), with low inferred magnetic fields and spin-down rates in order to constrain their surface temperatures, ob&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367432,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367431\/revisions\/367432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}