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FUSE spectra were obtained of the supersoft X-ray binary RX J0019.8+2156 (QR And) during 16 consecutive spacecraft orbits, covering the binary orbit (P=15.85 hr) with about 0.2 phase overlap. The spectrum is dominated by strong H2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. B. Hutchings , D. Crampton , A. P. Cowley , P. C. Schmidtke , A. W. Fullerton

We present the first {\it XMM-Newton} observation of the classical supergiant high-mass X-ray binary XTE J1855$-$026 taken entirely during the eclipse of the neutron star (NS), covering the orbital phases $\phi= 0.00-0.11$. The analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Graciela Sanjurjo-Ferrín , José Miguel Torrejón , José Joaquín Rodes-Roca

We report on a 40 ks long, uninterrupted X-ray observation of the candidate supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) IGRJ16418-4532 performed with XMM-Newton on February 23, 2011. This high mass X-ray binary lies in the direction of the Norma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , V. Sguera , F. Pizzolato

We report on the archival near-infrared and mid-infrared observations of 7 persistent X-ray sources situated in the Galactic bulge using data from the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Ivan Zolotukhin , Mikhail Revnivtsev

Context: The transient hard X-ray source IGR J11321-5311 was discovered by INTEGRAL on June 2005, during observations of the Crux spiral arm. To date, this is the only detection of the source to be reported by any X/gamma-ray mission. Aims:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Sguera , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , A. B. Hill , A. J. Dean , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , P. Ubertini

We report on optical and X-ray observations of the accretion powered ms pulsar IGR J00291+5934 in quiescence. Time resolved I-band photometry has been obtained with the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope, while a 3 ks Chandra observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 P. G. Jonker , M. A. P. Torres , D. Steeghs

We report the results of an XMM-Newton and NuSTAR coordinated observation of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient (SFXT) IGRJ11215-5952, performed on February 14, 2016, during the expected peak of its brief outburst, which repeats every…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 L. Sidoli , A. Tiengo , A. Paizis , V. Sguera , S. Lotti , L. Natalucci

We report the discovery of a soft gamma ray source, namely IGR J18135-1751, detected with the IBIS imager on board the INTEGRAL satellite. The source is persistent and has a 20-100 keV luminosity of $\sim$5.7 $\times$ 10$^{34}$ erg s$^{-1}$…

In previous work, it was reported that the Galactic black hole candidate MAXI J1810-222 exhibited a notable absorption spectral feature at around 1 keV in low-resolution X-ray spectra of CCD-like detectors. The feature was correlated with…

We analysed the IGR J16465-4507 Burst Alert Teelescope survey data collected during the first 54 months of the Swift mission. The source is in a crowded field and it is revealed through an ad hoc imaging analysis at a significance level of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-06 V. La Parola , G. Cusumano , P. Romano , A. Segreto , S. Vercellone , G. Chincarini

We report the results of analyzing Swift, RossiXTE, and INTEGRAL data of Swift J1922.7-1716, a likely transient X-ray source discovered by Swift/BAT. Both the fast variability measured by the RXTE/PCA and the combined Swift/XRT, RXTE/PCA,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Falanga , T. Belloni , S. Campana

The Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 underwent a giant outburst in late 2022 and lasted three months. The Insight-HXMT has observed this source at several instances of the entire outburst in 2022-2023. We used these bright outburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Prahlad R. Epili , Wei Wang

We report on a broad-band X-ray study (0.5-250 keV) of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient IGR J18483-0311 using archival INTEGRAL data and a new targeted XMM-Newton observation. Our INTEGRAL investigation discovered for the first time an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 V. Sguera , L. Sidoli , A. J. Bird , A. Bazzano

Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are a natural workbench to study accretion disk phenomena and optimal background sources to measure elemental abundances in the Interstellar medium (ISM). In high-resolution XMM-Newton spectra, the LMXB SAX…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-04 Ciro Pinto , Elisa Costantini , Andrew C. Fabian , Jelle S. Kaastra , Jean J. M. in't Zand

IGR J11215-5952 is a hard X-ray transient discovered in 2005 April by INTEGRAL and a member of the new class of HMXB, the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs). While INTEGRAL and RXTE observations have shown that the outbursts occur…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Romano , L. Sidoli , G. Cusumano , S. Vercellone , V. Mangano , H. A. Krimm

1RXS J180408.9-342058 is a transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary that exhibited a bright accretion outburst in 2015. We present Nustar, Swift, and Chandra observations obtained around the peak of this outburst. The source was in a…

We re-analysed the archival data of RXTE / INTEGRAL / Swift satellites at the onset phase of the 2011 outburst of the X-ray source IGR J17091-3624. The evolution of the spectral and temporal properties of the source in this phase clearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-11 Nirmal Iyer , A. Nandi

We report on an observation of the recently discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 performed with the RXTE-Proportional Counter Array (PCA) and Chandra-High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS). The RXTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Paizis , M. A. Nowak , J. Wilms , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , K. Ebisawa , J. Rodriguez , P. Ubertini

We report on the discovery of a new pulsating X-ray source during Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of a low galactic latitude field centered at RA (J2000) = 19 hr 05 m 43 s and Dec (J2000) = +08 deg 58 arcmin 48 arcsec. Significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Marsden , D. E. Gruber , W. A. Heindl , M. R. Pelling , R. E. Rothschild

We report on the Swift monitoring of the candidate supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) IGR J16418-4532, for which both orbital and spin periods are known (~3.7d and ~1250s, respectively). Our observations, for a total of ~43ks, span over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-22 P. Romano , V. Mangano , L. Ducci , P. Esposito , P. A. Evans , S. Vercellone , J. A. Kennea , D. N. Burrows , N. Gehrels