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We report Bayesian inference of the mass, radius and hot X-ray emitting region properties - using data from the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) - for the brightest rotation-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar PSR…

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The electron-cyclotron maser instability is widespread in the Universe, producing, e.g., radio emission of the magnetized planets and cool substellar objects. Diagnosing the parameters of astrophysical radio sources requires comprehensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. A. Kuznetsov , V. G. Vlasov

An overview of the results of observations for the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63, a member of a binary system with a Be star, since its discovery to the present day (~40 years) based on data from more than dozen observatories and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 P. A. Boldin , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

We report the results of an analysis of data obtained with the INTEGRAL, Swift and RXTE observatories during the 2010 April and September outbursts of the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431. The temporal and spectral properties of the pulsar in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Tsygankov , R. Krivonos , A. Lutovinov

We examine a number of evolutionary scenarios for the recently discovered class of accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsars in ultracompact binaries, including XTE J0929-314 and XTE J1751-305, with orbital periods of 43.6 and 42.4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lorne A. Nelson , Saul Rappaport

Magnetospheric processes seen in gas-giants such as aurorae and circularly-polarized cyclotron maser radio emission have been detected from some brown dwarfs. However, previous radio observations targeted known brown dwarfs discovered via…

The microwave radio dynamic spectra of the Crab pulsar interpulse contain fine structures represented via narrowband quasiharmonic stripes. The pattern significantly constrains any potential emission mechanism. Similar to the zebra patterns…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-31 M. Labaj , J. Benáček , M. Karlický

We present X-ray observations of the periodic optical source ZTF J185139.81+171430.3 (hereafter ZTF J1851) by the XMM, NICER and NuSTAR telescopes. The source was initially speculated to be a white dwarf (WD) pulsar system due to its short…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Ren Deng , Kaya Mori , Eric Miao , Gabriel Bridges , Charles J. Hailey , David A. H. Buckley , Gavin Ramsay , Dan Jarvis

The heating associated with the deposition of $\gamma$-rays in an accretion disk is proposed as a mechanism to facilitate the transformation of a low mass X-ray binary to the radio millisecond pulsar phase. The $\gamma$-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , R. E. Taam

We reproduce the broadband spectrum of Crab pulsar, from UV to very high energy gamma-rays - nearly ten decades in energy, within the framework of the cyclotron-self-Compton model. Emission is produced by two counter-streaming beams within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Maxim Lyutikov

Context. In 1998 the first accreting millisecond pulsar, SAX J1808.4-3658, was discovered and to date 18 systems showing coherent, high frequency (> 100 Hz) pulsations in low mass X-ray binaries are known. Since their discovery, this class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-18 A. Marino , T. Di Salvo , A. F. Gambino , R. Iaria , L. Burderi , M. Matranga , A. Sanna , A. Riggio

It is known that the concept of limiting polarization introduced seventy years ago by K G Budden has the capacity to explain the magnitude of circular polarization seen in normal pulsars with rotation periods of the order of one second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 P B Jones

We report on the detection of pulsed, broad-band, X-ray emission from the transient source RX J0117.6-7330. The pulse period of 22 seconds is detected by the ROSAT/PSPC instrument in a 1992 Sep 30 - Oct 2 observation and by the CGRO/BATSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Macomb , M. H. Finger , B. A. Harmon , R. C. Lamb , T. A. Prince

Hot Jupiter (HJ) type exoplanets are expected to produce strong radio emission in the MHz range via the Electron Cyclotron Maser Instability (ECMI). To date, no repeatable detections have been made. To explain the absence of observational…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Simon Daley-Yates , Ian R. Stevens

We consider the problem of the thermal X-ray radiation from the hot polar cap of radio pulsars showing evidence of \EB subpulse drift in radio band. In our recent Paper I, using the partially screened gap (PSG) model of inner acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Gil , G. I. Melikidze , B. Zhang

We report on Bayesian parameter estimation of the mass and equatorial radius of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030$+$0451, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray spectral-timing event…

We present the results of a morphological study performed to a sample of Ultracompact (UC) HII regions with Extended Emission (EE) using Spitzer--IRAC imagery and 3.6 cm VLA conf. D radio-continuum (RC) maps. Some examples of the comparison…

Two coherent radio emission mechanisms operate in stellar coronae: plasma emission and cyclotron emission. They directly probe the electron density and magnetic field strength respectively. Most stellar radio detections have been made at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 H. K. Vedantham

Over a dozen ultracool dwarfs (UCDs), low-mass objects of spectral types $\geq$M7, are known to be sources of radio flares. These typically several-minutes-long radio bursts can be up to 100\% circularly polarized and have high brightness…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Matthew Route