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We present the first broadband spectral and timing study of the Be/X-ray pulsar XTE J0111.2$-$7317 (SXP31.0) during the first major outburst since its discovery in 1998. This giant type II outburst, observed between April and September…

Aims: We present a study of the Be/X-ray binary system V 0332+53 with the main goal of characterizing its behavior mainly during the intermediate-luminosity X-ray event on 2008. In addition, we aim to contribute to the understanding of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-12 M. D. Caballero-Garcia , A. Camero-Arranz , M. Ozbey Arabaci , C. Zurita , J. Suso , J. Gutierrez-Soto , E. Beklen , F. Kiaeerad , R. Garrido , R. Hudec

IGR J17591-2342 is a recently INTEGRAL discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar that went into outburst around July 21, 2018. To better understand the physics acting in these systems during the outburst episode we performed detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 L. Kuiper , S. S. Tsygankov , M. Falanga , I. A. Mereminskij , D. K. Galloway , J. Poutanen , Z. Li

We present an optical (gri) study during quiescence of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 performed with the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) in August 2014. Despite the source being in quiescence at the time of our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 M. C. Baglio , S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , A. Papitto , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , T. Muñoz Darias , N. Rea , D. F. Torres

A new accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar, IGR J17511-3057, was discovered in outburst on 2009 September 12 during the INTEGRAL Galactic bulge monitoring programme. To study the evolution of the source X-ray flux and spectral properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Bozzo , C. Ferrigno , M. Falanga , S. Campana , J. A. Kennea , A. Papitto

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-09 Arshad Hussain , Umananda Dev Goswami

A0538-66 is a Be/X-ray binary (Be/XRB) hosting a 69 ms pulsar. It emitted bright X-ray outbursts with peak luminosity up to $\sim 10^{39}$ erg/s during the first years after its discovery in 1977. Since then, it was always seen in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Ducci , S. Mereghetti , A. Santangelo

We present an extended study of the Be/X-ray pulsar 2S 1553-542 during its Type II outbursts. We have incorporated \emph{NICER, Swift-XRT, RXTE-PCA, \emph{NuSTAR} and FERMI} observations to carry out the detailed phase and time resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Binay Rai , Biswajit Paul , Mohammed Tobrej , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

Analysis of the data obtained with the RXTE observatory during a powerful outburst of the X-ray pulsar V0332+53 in 2004-2005 is presented. Observational data covering the outburst brightening phase are analysed in detail for the first time.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Tsygankov , A. Lutovinov , A. Serber

We are reporting a discovery of X-ray pulsations from the source AX J1749.1-2733 with the period of ~132 s based on the XMM-Newton data obtained in March 2007. The observed pulse profile has a double-peaked structure with the pulse fraction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. I. Karasev , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

We made a detailed study of the timing and spectral properties of the X-ray pulsar 1A 0535+262 during the recent giant outburst in 2020 November and December. The flux of the pulsar reached a record value of $\sim$12.5 Crab as observed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-11 Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal

We report on pulse profile decomposition analysis of a bright transient X-ray pulsar 1A 0535+262 using the broadband Insight-HXMT observations during a giant outburst of the source in 2020. We show that the observed pulse profile shape can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Y. F. Hu , L. Ji , C. Yu , P. J. Wang , V. Doroshenko , A. Santangelo , I. Saathoff , S. N. Zhang , S. Zhang , L. D. Kong

In this Letter we present results from INTEGRAL and RXTE observations of the spectral and timing behavior of the High Mass X-ray Binary A 0535+26 during its August/September 2005 normal (type I) outburst with an average flux…

We compiled X-ray and Optical observations of the accreting X-ray binary system A 0535+262 since its discovery in 1975, that will allow us to shed light on the unpredictable behavior of this binary system. We present the data in terms of…

We report on observations of the sixth accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, IGR J00291+5934, with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. The source is a faint, recurrent X-ray transient initially identified by INTEGRAL. The 599 Hz (1.67 ms)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Galloway , C. B. Markwardt , E. H. Morgan , D. Chakrabarty , T. E. Strohmayer

We report on time-resolved optical imaging of the X-ray binary SAX J1808.4-3658 during its quiescent state and 2008 outburst. The binary, containing an accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, has a large sinusoidal-like modulation in its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Z. Wang , R. P. Breton , C. O. Heinke , C. J. Deloye , J. Zhong

After at least 6 years of quiescence, Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) 4U 0142+61 entered an active phase in 2006 March that lasted several months and included six X-ray bursts as well as many changes in the persistent X-ray emission. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-21 Fotis P. Gavriil , Rim Dib , Victoria M. Kaspi

We have observed the millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 on three occasions during its 2000 outburst with the BeppoSAX satellite. The source was highly variable and erratic during this outburst, and by coincidence we obtained data…

The accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar, SAX J1808.4-3658, was observed in quiescence with ASCA in September 1999. We detected a dim X-ray source in the SIS data at the position consistent to SAX J1808.4-3658. The source count rate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tadayasu Dotani , Kazumi Asai , Rudy Wijnands