{"id":534613,"date":"2018-10-12T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/search.jsp?R=20180006135"},"modified":"2018-10-12T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:49:59","slug":"discovery-of-pulsation-dropout-and-turn-on-during-the-high-state-of-the-accreting-x-ray-pulsar-lmc-x-4-stub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=534613","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of Pulsation Dropout and Turn-on During the High State of the Accreting X-Ray Pulsar LMC X-4 [STUB]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Two Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observations of the luminous X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 in2015 October and November captured several bright accretion flares from this source, which has a long history of stable pulse and superorbital behavior. We present a timing analysis of these data in which we detect a rapid pulse &#8220;turn-on&#8221; in association with the accretion flares, during which the source reaches super-Eddington luminosities.Pulsations, which are normally seen from this source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Two Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observations of the luminous X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 in2015 October and November captured several bright accretion flares from this source, which has a long history of stable pulse and superorbi&#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-534613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534613","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=534613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534614,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534613\/revisions\/534614"}],"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=534613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}