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The accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed by XMM-Newton on March 22, 2003 after its discovery on February 21, 2003 by RXTE. The source was detected in its bright phase with an observed average count rate of 33.3 cts/s in…

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

We report on the coherent timing analysis of the 182 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar Swift J1756.9$-$2508 during its 2018 outburst as observed with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Combining our NICER…

We present a timing analysis of the 2009 outburst of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar Swift J1756.9-2508, and a re-analysis of the 2007 outburst. The source shows a short recurrence time of only ~2 years between outbursts. Thanks to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Alessandro Patruno , Diego Altamirano , Chris Messenger

We present a coherent timing analysis of the 2003 outburst of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294. We find an upper limit for the spin frequency derivative of 5E-14 Hz/s. The sinusoidal fractional amplitudes of the pulsations are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Alessandro Patruno , Jacob M. Hartman , R. Wijnands , Deepto Chakrabarty , Michiel van der Klis

The twelfth accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, IGR J17511-3057, was discovered in September 2009. In this work we study its spectral and timing properties during the 2009 outburst based on Swift and RXTE data. Our spectral analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 A. Ibragimov , J. J. E. Kajava , J. Poutanen

We report on the results obtained for the millisecond transient X-ray pulsar XTE J1807-294 in a 40 min orbital period system, based on an XMM-Newton ToO observation carried out during March 2003. The source was found at a luminosity level…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Campana , M. Ravasio , G. L. Israel , V. Mangano , T. Belloni

This study reports pulse variation analysis results for the forth discovered accretion-powered millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 during its 2003 outburst observed by {\it Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer}. The pulsation is significantly detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Chou , Y. Chung , C. P. Hu , T. C. Yang

We report on the discovery of the new accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SRGAJ144459.2-604207 using the SRG/ART-XC data. The source was observed twice in February 2024 during the declining phase of the outburst. Timing analysis revealed a…

We discuss the spectral and timing properties of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508 observed by XMM-Newton, NICER and NuSTAR during the X-ray outburst occurred in April 2018. The spectral properties of the source are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 A. Sanna , F. Pintore , A. Riggio , S. M. Mazzola , E. Bozzo , T. Di Salvo , C. Ferrigno , A. F. Gambino , A. Papitto , R. Iaria , L. Burderi

We present a precise timing analysis of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1814-338 during its 2003 outburst, observed by RXTE. A full orbital solution is given for the first time; Doppler effects induced by the motion of the source in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Papitto , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , M. T. Menna , G. Lavagetto , A. Riggio

We report on the discovery and the timing analysis of the first eclipsing accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP): SWIFT J1749.4-2807. The neutron star rotates at a frequency of ~517.9 Hz and is in a binary system with an orbital…

We report the discovery of burst oscillations at the spin frequency in ten thermonuclear bursts from the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) IGR J17511-3057. The burst oscillation properties are, like those from the persistent AMXPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Altamirano , A. Watts , M. Linares , C. B. Markwardt , T. Strohmayer , A. Patruno

In order to probe the activity of the inner disk flow and its effect on the neutron star surface emissions, we carried out the timing analysis of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of the millisecond X-ray pulsar XTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fan Zhang , J. L. Qu , C. M. Zhang , W. Chen , T. P. Li

We describe a timing technique that allows to obtain precise orbital parameters of an accreting millisecond pulsar in those cases in which intrinsic variations of the phase delays (caused e.g. by proper variation of the spin frequency) with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Riggio , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , R. Iaria , A. Papitto , T. Menna , G. Lavagetto

We performed a timing analysis of the fastest accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J00291+5934 using RXTE data taken during the outburst of December 2004. We corrected the arrival times of all the events for the orbital (Doppler) effects and…

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

The accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1814-338 exhibits oscillations at the known spin frequency during Type I X-ray bursts. The properties of the burst oscillations reflect the nature of the thermal asymmetry on the stellar surface. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna L. Watts , Tod E. Strohmayer , Craig B. Markwardt

The precise origins of the millisecond radio pulsars, discovered in the early 1980s, remain uncertain until this day. They plausibly evolve from accreting low magnetic-field neutron stars in X-ray binary systems. If so, these stars should…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis

Since the initial discoveries with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in 1996 of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) and burst oscillations in a number of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) containing low-magnetic-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. van der Klis