Index
335
Rotational evolution, 74
Rotational mixing, 215–216
Rotational RAdio Transients (RRATs), 55, 56,
61
Runaway thermonuclear burning, 212
S
Scattering of thermal emission, 226
Sco X-1, 277
Seismology of magnetars, 106
SGR J1745-2900, 115–116
Shapiro delay, 12, 76
Sideband peaks, 317
Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs), 99
Soft state bursts, 220
Spin-down, 60, 174
Spin-down age, 58
Spin frequency, 316
Spin rate, 25
Spin-up, 63, 174
Sub-Keplerian flows, 266
Superburst, 164
T
Tensor-scalar theories, 86–88
Thermal emission, 156
Thermonuclear bursts, 189–194
Thin-shell instability, 222
Thomson scattering, 16
Time lags, 283
Times of Arrival (ToAs), 72
Timing noise, 178–180
Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation, 9
Touchdown flux, 16
Transient activity, 103–116
Transient X-ray binaries, 210
Trans-sonic accretion, 276
Type-I X-ray bursts, 210
U
Ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs), 211
URCA processes, 30
W
Waveform, 22
Westerlund 1, 124
White dwarf, 158
X
X-ray bursts, 15–18