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A Be/X-ray binary system known as RX J0440.9+4431 (or LS V +44 17) is a potential member of the uncommon gamma-ray binary class. With an orbital period of 150 days, this system consists of a neutron star and a Be star companion. The MAXI…

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We report results of multiband optical monitoring of two well known blazars, S5 0716+714 and BL Lacertae, carried out in 1996 and 2000-01 with an aim to study optical variations on time scales from minutes to hours and longer.The light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Stalin , Gopal-Krishna , Ram Sagar , Paul J. Wiita , V. Mohan , A. K. Pandey

We used the Aladin Virtual Obsrvatory tool and High Resolution Imager ROSAT archival data to search for X-ray variability in scale of days in 23 young stars in the sigma Orionis cluster and a background galaxy. Five stars displayed…

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We investigated the optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray variability of the pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545. Our timing and spectral analyses of the X-ray and gamma-ray emissions from the source using RXTE and INTEGRAL data show that the shape of its…

We present a detailed optical and X-ray study of the 2013 outburst of the Small Magellanic Cloud Be/X-ray binary SXP7.92, as well as an overview of the last 18 years of observations from OGLE, RXTE, Chandra and XMM-Newton. We revise the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 E. S. Bartlett , M. J. Coe , G. L. Israel , J. S. Clark , P. Esposito , V. D'Elia , A. Udalski

The Be/X-ray binary system LS V +44 17 (RX J0440.9+4431) is a potential member of the rare class of gamma-ray binaries. The system is comprised of a Be star and a neutron star companion with an orbital period of 150 days. In December of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-24 Jamie Holder

We describe here results of a photometric time-sequence survey of the globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272), in a search for contact and detached eclipsing binary stars. We have discovered only one likely eclipsing binary and one SX Phe type star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. Kaluzny , R. W. Hilditch , C. Clement , S. M. Rucinski

We report the results of eROSITA and NICER observations of the June 2020 outburst of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0529.8-6556 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, along with the analysis of archival X-ray and optical data from this source. We…

We report on monitoring observations of the TeV gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057, which were carried out to constrain the interaction between the Be circumstellar disk and the compact object of unknown nature, and provide for the first time…

Aims. We present the first long-term pulse profile study of the X-ray pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545. Our main goal is to study the pulse shape correlation either with luminosity, time or energy. Methods. This Be/X-ray binary system was observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Camero Arranz , C. A. Wilson , M. H. Finger , V. Reglero

We present X-ray intraday variability, cross-correlated variability, and power spectrum density analysis of the binary black hole blazar candidate OJ 287. The X-ray pointed observations of the source were carried out on eight occasions by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Tao Huang , Alok C. Gupta , Lang Cui , Ashutosh Tripathi , Yongfeng Huang , P. U. Devanand , Xiang Liu

Be/X-ray binary systems provide an excellent opportunity to study the physics around neutron stars through the study of the behaviour of matter around them. Intermediate and low-luminosity type outbursts are interesting because they provide…

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We have performed a photometric V, R, I CCD time-series analysis with a baseline of ~8 years of the outer-halo globular cluster NGC 7492 with the aim of searching for new variables and using these (and the previously known variables) to…

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We present optical and infrared photometry of the low-mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676 in quiescence for the first time in 24 years since it became X-ray active in 1985. We find the counterpart at average magnitudes of R=22.4 and J=21.3. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 R. I. Hynes , E. D. Jones

The spectra of several X-ray binary pulsars display a clear soft excess, which in most cases can be described with a blackbody model, above the main power-law component. While in the high-luminosity sources it is usually characterized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 N. La Palombara , L. Sidoli , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti

13\,Tau is a rarely studied bright B9V type star ({\sl V} = 5.68 mag), which shows a weak and double-peaked H{$\alpha$} emission profile in its spectra. In this study, we presented high-precision photometric data of 13\,Tau taken by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-02 Dogus Ozuyar , Ian R. Stevens

We report on high-dispersion optical spectroscopic observations of the Be/X-ray binary A0535+262/V725 Tau during the giant outburst in November/December 2009 and after it. The observed emission line profiles, reflecting the structure of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yuuki Moritani , Daisaku Nogami , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Akira Imada , Eiji Kambe , Satoshi Honda , Osamu Hashimoto , Kohei Ichikawa

Swift J0549.7-6812 is an Be/X-ray binary system (BeXRB) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) exhibiting a 6s pulse period. Like many such systems the variable X-ray emission is believed to be driven by the underlying behaviour of the mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 M. J. Coe , J. A. Kennea , I. M. Monageng , D. A. H. Buckley , A. Udalski , P. A. Evans

We report observations which confirm the identities of the optical counterpart to the transient sources RX J0544.1-7100 and RX J0520.5-6932. The counterparts are suggested to be a B-type stars. Optical data from the observations carried out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. J. Coe , I. Negueruela , D. A. H. Buckley , N. J. Haigh , S. G. T. Laycock

We have conducted a 3-month program of simultaneous optical, soft and hard X-ray monitoring of the LMXB 4U1636-536/V801 Ara using the SMARTS 1.3m telescope and archival RXTE/ASM and Swift/XRT data. 4U1636-536 has been exhibiting a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 I. C. Shih , P. A. Charles , R. Cornelisse