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We present the timing and spectral properties of the transient X-ray pulsar GX 304-1 during its recent outburst in 2010 August, using observations carried out with the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) instrument on-board the Rossi X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Jincy Devasia , Marykutty James , Biswajit Paul , Kavila Indulekha

We report on the BeppoSAX/WFC observation of a strong type-I X-ray burst from the recently discovered transient source SAX J1810.8-2609. The observed event showed evidence of photospheric radius expansion due to super-Eddington burst…

In January 2009, multiple short bursts of soft gamma-rays were detected from the direction of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408 by different satellites. Here we report on the observations obtained with the INTEGRAL SPI-ACS detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 S. Mereghetti , D. Gotz , G. Weidenspointner , A. von Kienlin , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , G. Vianello , G. L. Israel , L. Stella , R. Turolla , N. Rea , S. Zane

With the observations from \textit{Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer}, we search and study the X-ray bursts of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX~J1748.9-2021 during its 2010 outburst. We find 13 X-ray bursts, including 12 standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-11 Ziwei Wu , Guoqiang Ding , Zhibing Li , Yupeng Chen , Jinlu Qu

We present the results of simultaneous observations of the transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) candidate CXOU J110926.4-650224 with the XMM-Newton satellite and the MeerKAT telescope. The source was found at an average X-ray luminosity…

The fourth transient accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed during its February/March 2003 outburst by INTEGRAL, partly simultaneously with the XMM-Newton and RXTE satellites. We present here the first study of the 0.5-200…

Magnetars are young, rotating neutron stars that possess larger magnetic fields ($B$ $\approx$ $10^{13}$-$10^{15}$ G) and longer rotational periods ($P$ $\approx$ 1-12 s) than ordinary pulsars. In contrast to rotation-powered pulsars,…

A class of low-mass X-ray binary sources are known to be both X-ray burst sources and millisecond pulsars at the same time. A new source of this class was discovered by High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2) on 14 June 2005 as a source…

XTE J1818-245 is an X-ray nova that experienced an outburst in 2005, first seen by the RXTE satellite. The source was observed simultaneously at various wavelengths up to soft gamma-rays with the INTEGRAL satellite, from 2005 February to…

We report on optical and infrared observations of the anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) 1E 1048.1-5937, made during its ongoing X-ray flare which started in 2007 March. We detected the source in the optical I and near-infrared Ks bands in two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Wang , C. Bassa , V. M. Kaspi , J. B. Bryant , N. Morrell

We present multiwavelength observations of the newly discovered X-ray transient XTE J1118+480 obtained in the rising phase of the 2000 April outburst. This source is located at unusually high Galactic latitude and in a very low absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. I. Hynes , C. W. Mauche , C. A. Haswell , C. R. Shrader , W. Cui , S. Chaty

The high-frequency radio sky is bursting with synchrotron transients from massive stellar explosions and accretion events, but the low-frequency radio sky has so far been quiet beyond the Galactic pulsar population and the long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 N. Hurley-Walker , X. Zhang , A. Bahramian , S. J. McSweeney , T. N. O'Doherty , P. J. Hancock , J. S. Morgan , G. E. Anderson , G. H. Heald , T. J. Galvin

In the beginning of 2023 the Be transient X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 underwent a fist-ever giant outburst observed from the source peaking in the beginning of February and reaching peak luminosity of $\sim 4.3\times10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$.…

We present XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of 1E1048.1-5937, being the first to show evidence for a significant variation in the X-ray luminosity of this Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP). While during the first XMM-Newton (2000 December)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Mereghetti , A. Tiengo , L. Stella , G. L. Israel , N. Rea , S. Zane , T. Oosterbroek

We report multiwavelength observations of the two soft X-ray transients (SXTs) XTE J1859+226 and XTE J1118+480, which we observed with HST, RXTE and UKIRT. The two sources exhibited very different behaviour. XTE J1859+226 showed a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chaty , C. A. Haswell , R. I. Hynes , C. R. Shrader , W. Cui

IGR J17511-3057 is the second X-ray transient accreting millisecond pulsar discovered by INTEGRAL. It was in outburst for about a month from September 13, 2009. The broad-band average spectrum is well described by thermal Comptonization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-18 M. Falanga , L. Kuiper , J. Poutanen , D. K. Galloway , E. W. Bonning , E. Bozzo , A. Goldwurm , W. Hermsen , L. Stella

XSPECT instrument on-board XPoSat mission is a soft X-ray spectrometer sensitive in the energy band 0.8$-$15 keV. XSPECT has observed several bright neutron star low mass X-ray binaries since launch. Two well known sources, Aql X-1 and 4U…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Rwitika Chatterjee , Vivek Kumar Agrawal , V. P. Shyam Prakash , Koushal Vadodariya , Radhakrishna V

The recent detection of the anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) 4U 0142+61 in the mid-infrared with the {\it Spitzer} observatory by Z.Wang and coworkers constitutes the first instance of a disk around an AXP. We show, by analyzing earlier optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Ertan , M. H. Erkut , K. Y. Eksi , M. A. Alpar

AX J1845.0-0433 is a transient high-mass X-ray binary discovered by ASCA. The source displays bright and short flares observed recently with INTEGRAL. The transient behaviour and the bright and short flares are studied in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Zurita Heras , R. Walter

We present the discovery of 528.6 Hz pulsations in the new X-ray transient MAXI J1816-195. Using NICER, we observed the first recorded transient outburst from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary MAXI J1816-195 over a period of 28 days.…