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Using BATSE and RXTE observations from 1991 April to 2001 August we have detected 71 outbursts from 82 periastron passages of EXO 2030+375, a 42-second transient X-ray pulsar with a Be star companion, including several outbursts from 1993…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Colleen A. Wilson , Mark H. Finger , M. J. Coe , Silas Laycock , J. Fabregat

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

A number of accreting X-ray pulsars experience spectral changes, both on the long time scales and on the time scales of the neutron star spin period. The sources seem to form two distinct groups which differ by the type of the spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Daniela Müller , Dmitry Klochkov , Isabel Caballero , Andrea Santangelo

We present results obtained from an extensive near-infrared spectroscopic and photometric observations of the Be/X-ray binary A0535+262/HDE 245770 at different phases of its ~111 day orbital period. This observation campaign is a part of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-10 Sachindra Naik , Blesson Mathew , D. P. K. Banerjee , N. M. Ashok , Rajeev R. Jaiswal

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

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

RX J0440.9+4431, a Be/X-ray binary, had its brightest outburst in 2022 since its discovery, with a peak X-ray flux of 2.25 Crab (as recorded by Swift/BAT, 15-50 keV). We analyze the timing properties of this giant outburst using data from…

We present a detailed spectro-temporal study of the Be X-ray binary pulsar $1A$ $1118-61$ during its brightest recorded outburst in 2026, using \textit{Swift} and \textit{NuSTAR} observations, and compare its properties with the 2009…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Kinjal Roy , Aru Beri , Rahul Sharma , Phil Charles

In June-September 2006 the Be/X-ray binary EXO 2030+375 experienced the second giant outburst since its discovery. The source was shown to have a complicated pulse-averaged X-ray spectral continuum with possible evidence of cyclotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Klochkov , A. Santangelo , R. Staubert , C. Ferrigno

The Be X-ray binary EXO 2030+375 went through its third recorded giant outburst from June 2021 to early 2022. We present the results of both spectral and timing analysis based on NICER monitoring, covering the 2-10 keV flux range from 20 to…

We present the timing and spectral studies of the Be/X-ray binary XTE J1946+274 during its 2018 and 2021 giant outbursts using observations with the SXT and the LAXPC instruments on the AstroSat satellite. Unlike the 1998 and 2010…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Amar Deo Chandra , Jayashree Roy , P. C. Agrawal

We have analyzed 3 observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary A0535+26 performed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) 3, 5, and 6 months after the last outburst in 2011 February. We detect pulsations only in the second observation. The…

GRO J2058+42, a transient 198 second x-ray pulsar, was discovered by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), during a "giant" outburst in 1995 September-October. The total flux peaked…

We present an analysis of the highly variable accreting X-ray pulsar 3A 1954+319 using 2005-2009 monitoring data obtained with INTEGRAL and Swift. This considerably extends the pulse period history and covers flaring episodes in 2005 and…

We report the first determination of the binary period and orbital ephemeris of the Be X-ray binary containing the pulsar 1A 1118-616 (35 years after the discovery of the source). The orbital period is found to be Porb = 24.0 +/- 0.4 days.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Staubert , K. Pottschmidt , V. Doroshenko , J. Wilms , S. Suchy , R. Rothschild , A. Santangelo

We present a type-I outburst of the high-mass X-ray binary EXO 2030+375, detected during INTEGRAL's Performance and Verification Phase in December 2002 (on-source time about 10e+06 seconds). In addition, six more outbursts have been…

Be/X-ray binary pulsars show transient outbursts and complex timing behaviour, including millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), whose physical origin and energy dependence remain poorly understood. We aim to characterise the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Zihan Yang , Ruican Ma , Mariano Méndez , Z. X. Li , Q. C. Zhao , Panping Li , Lian Tao , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Liang Zhang , Hua Feng , Xiang Ma , Yue Huang

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 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

We report results of Swift observations for the high mass Be/X-ray binary system 1A 1118-615, during an outburst stage in January, 2009 and at a flaring stage in March, 2009. Using the epoch-folding method, we successfully detected a pulsed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-19 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Jumpei Takata , Albert K. H. Kong , Chorng-Yuan Hwang