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Context: In addition to coherent pulsation, many accreting neutron stars exhibit flaring activity and strong aperiodic variability on time scales comparable to or shorter than their pulsation period. Such a behavior shows that the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Klochkov , R. Staubert , A. Santangelo , R. E. Rothschild , C. Ferrigno

We report detailed timing and spectral analysis of RXTE-PCA data obtained from observations during the outburst of a transient X-ray pulsar 1A 1118--61 in January 2009. The pulse profile showed significant evolution during the outburst and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jincy Devasia , Marykutty James , Biswajit Paul , Kavila Indulekha

We have undertaken an extensive study of X-ray data from the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1751-305 observed by RXTE and XMM-Newton during its 2002 outburst. In all aspects this source is similar to a prototypical millisecond pulsar SAX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marek Gierlinski , Juri Poutanen

The hard X-ray pulsar GX 1+4 was observed several times in the last few years with a pair of balloon-borne Xenon filled Multi-cell Proportional Counters (XMPC). In a balloon flight made on 22 March 1995, the source was detected in a bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Paul , P. C. Agrawal , A. R. Rao , R. K. Manchanda

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

The present paper reports on the RXTE observations of the binary X-ray pulsar 4U0115+63, covering an outburst in 1999 March-April with 44 pointings. The 3-30 keV PCA spectra and the 15-50 keV HEXTE spectra were analyzed jointly for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Motoki Nakajima , Tatehiro Mihara , Kazuo Makishima , Hisako Niko

We present the high-resolution spectrum of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar XTE J0929-314 during its 2002 outburst, measured using the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The 1.5-25.3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adrienne M. Juett , Duncan K. Galloway , Deepto Chakrabarty

We present a comprehensive timing analysis on the Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 using observations from \textit{NICER} and \textit{Insight}-HXMT during the 2022--2023 outburst. The power density spectrum (PDS) of RX J0440.9+4431…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-23 P. P. Li , L. Tao , R. C. Ma , M. Y. Ge , Q. C. Zhao , S. J. Zhao , L. Zhang , Q. C. Bu , L. D. Kong , Y. L. Tuo , L. Ji , S. Zhang , J. L. Qu , S. N. Zhang , Y. Huang , X. Ma , W. T. Ye , Q. C. Shui

ASCA's long look at the 288 millisecond radio pulsar, PSR J0631+1036, reveals coherent X-ray pulsation from this source for the first time. The source was first detected in the serendipitous Einstein observation and later identified as a…

We report on the discovery of pulsations at a period of ~47 s in the persistent X-ray source 1RXS J225352.8+624354 (1RXS J2253) using five Chandra observations performed in 2009. The signal was also detected in Swift and ROSAT data,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-06 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , L. Sidoli , E. Mason , G. A. Rodríguez Castillo , J. P. Halpern , A. Moretti , D. Götz

We present new observations of two anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXP) 4U 0142+61 and 1E 1048.1-5937 made in 1998 with the ASCA. The energy spectra of these two AXPs are found to consist of two components, a power-law and a blackbody emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Paul , M. Kawasaki , T. Dotani , F. Nagase

We present spectral and timing analysis of NuSTAR observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar 2RXP J130159.6-635806. The source was serendipitously observed during a campaign focused on the gamma-ray binary PSR B1259-63 and was later…

Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars like IGR J00291+5934 are important because it is possible to test theories of pulsar formation and evolution. They give also the possibility to constrain gravitational wave emission theories and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Alessandro Patruno

Using X-ray data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we carried out pulse timing analysis of the transient X-ray pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545. An outburst was detected by All Sky Monitor (ASM) October 25 1999 and reached a peak X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Baykal , M. Stark , J. Swank

We analyze \emph{RXTE} and \emph{Swift} observations of SWIFT J1729.9$-$3437 after its outburst from 2010 July 20 to 2010 August 12. We calculate a spin frequency and spin frequency derivative of $1.8734(8) \times 10^{-3}$ Hz and $6.42(6)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Sahiner , S. C. Inam , M. M. Serim , A. Baykal

We present results of the first dedicated observation of the young X-ray pulsar SXP 1062 in the broad X-ray energy band obtained during its 2019 outburst with the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observatories. The analysis of the pulse-phase averaged…

4U0114$+$65 is one of the slowest known X-ray pulsars. We present an analysis of a pointed observation by the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope. The energy-resolved light curve, the time-resolved X-ray spectra provided by the EPIC cameras on board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Graciela Sanjurjo , Jose Miguel Torrejon , Konstantin Postnov , Lida Oskinova , Jose Joaquin Rodes-Roca , Guillermo Bernabeu

We report on the 2004 June 29 burst detected from the direction of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) 1E 1048.1-5937 using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). We find a simultaneous increase of ~3.5 times the quiescent value in the 2-10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fotis P. Gavriil , Victoria M. Kaspi , Peter M. Woods

We report on INTEGRAL, Swift and XMM-Newton observations of IGR J17511-3057 performed during the outburst that occurred between March 23 and April 25, 2015. The source reached a peak flux of 0.7(2)E-9 erg/cm$^2$/s and decayed to quiescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 A. Papitto , E. Bozzo , C. Sanchez-Fernandez , P. Romano , D. F. Torres , C. Ferrigno , J. J. E. Kajava , E. Kuulkers

We study the recently discovered Be/X-ray pulsar MAXI J0655--013 using the 2022 \emph{NuSTAR} observations. The paper is the first detailed study of the timing and spectral properties of the source. The pulse profiles of the pulsar vary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Binay Rai , Mohammed Tobrej , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul