Effects of beaming and L_Edd, B for a 1.4 M_⊙ NS of varying B (see coloured text) on the apparent luminosity L_iso (upper left), with and without beaming (solid and dotted lines, respectively), and b (bottom left) as a function of the Ṁ_tr. We also compare the $\dot{\nu }$ ranges (accretion rate between Ṁ_Edd and Ṁ_tr) as a function of the L_iso using the modified (upper right) and classical (lower right; increasing B from bottom to top) L_Edd against the values of observed PULXs (asterisks; King & Lasota 2019).