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We report on the X-ray spectrum of the 401 Hz X-ray pulsar and type I burst source SAX J1808.4-3658, during its 1998 April/May hard outburst. The observations were made with RXTE over a period of three weeks. The spectrum is well-described…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. A. Heindl , D. M. Smith

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

We present an X-ray spectral and timing analysis of two $NuSTAR$ observations of the transient Be X-ray binary SAX J2103.5+4545 during its April 2016 outburst, which was characterized by the highest flux since $NuSTAR$'s launch. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 McKinley C. Brumback , Ryan C. Hickox , Felix S. Fürst , Katja Pottschmidt , Paul Hemphill , John A. Tomsick , Jörn Wilms , Ralf Ballhausen

Understanding accretion components in neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems is important to probe fundamental aspects of accretion mechanism and evolution of the system constraining its physical properties. Here, we present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 Aman Kaushik , Yash Bhargava , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Maurizio Falanga

We present radio coverage of the 2019 outburst of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, obtained with MeerKAT. We compare these data to contemporaneous X-ray and optical measurements in order to investigate the coupling…

We report on the results of an EPIC XMM-Newton observation of the faint source SAXJ1748.2-2808 and the surrounding field. This source was discovered during the BeppoSAX Galactic center survey performed in 1997-1998. A spatial analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , F. Favata , T. Oosterbroek , A. N. Parmar

The transient accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 has shown several outbursts to date but the transition from outburst to quiescence has never been investigated in detail. Thanks to the Swift observing flexibility, we monitored…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergio Campana , Luigi Stella , Jamie A. Kennea

The results of the broadband spectral and timing study of the transient X-ray pulsar GRO J2058+42 in a wide energy range at a low luminosity $L_{x} \simeq 2.5\times 10^{36}$ erg s$^{-1}$ are reported. The data revealed that the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 A. S. Gorban , S. V. Molkov , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Mushtukov , A. A. Lutovinov

The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer has observed five outbursts from the transient 2.5 ms accretion-powered pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during 1998-2008. We present a pulse timing study of the most recent outburst and compare it with the previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 J. M. Hartman , A. Patruno , D. Chakrabarty , C. B. Markwardt , E. H. Morgan , M. van der Klis , R. Wijnands

We report on an XMM-Newton observation of the accreting millisecond pulsar, IGR J17511-3057. Pulsations at 244.8339512(1) Hz are observed with an RMS pulsed fraction of 14.4(3)%. A precise solution for the P_orb=12487.51(2)s binary system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Papitto , A. Riggio , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , A. D'Aì , R. Iaria , E. Bozzo , M. T. Menna

The first discovered accreting millisecond pulsar, SAX J1808.4-3658, went into X-ray outburst in April 2015. We triggered a 100 ks XMM-Newton ToO, taken at the peak of the outburst, and a 55 ks NuSTAR ToO, performed four days apart. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 T. Di Salvo , A. Sanna , L. Burderi , A. Papitto , R. Iaria , A. F. Gambino , A. Riggio

We present a 7 yr timing study of the 2.5 ms X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, an X-ray transient with a recurrence time of ~2 yr, using data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer covering 4 transient outbursts (1998-2005). We verify that the…

We observed SAX J1808.4-3658 (1808), the first accreting millisecond pulsar, in deep quiescence with XMM-Newton and (near-simultaneously) Gemini-South. The X-ray spectrum of 1808 is similar to that observed in quiescence in 2001 and 2006,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-28 C. O. Heinke , P. G. Jonker , R. Wijnands , C. J. Deloye , R. E. Taam

We report on the timing analysis of the 2015 outburst of the intermittent accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1748.9-2021 observed on March 4 by the X-ray satellite XMM-Newton. By phase-connecting the time of arrivals of the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Sanna , L. Burderi , A. Riggio , F. Pintore , T. Di Salvo , A. F. Gambino , R. Iaria , M. Matranga , F. Scarano

We report on the XMM-Newton observations of the 143 ms pulsar PSR J0538+2817. We present evidence for the first detections of pulsed X-rays from the source at a frequency which is consistent with the predicted radio frequency. The pulse…

We explain why it is possible to detect directly X-ray emission from near the surface of the neutron star (NS) in SAX J1808.4-3658 but not in most other low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), with the exception that emission from the surface can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Lev Titarchuk , Wei Cui , Kent Wood

We present an analysis of the first high-resolution spectra measured from an accretion-driven millisecond X-ray pulsar in outburst. We observed XTE J1751-305 with XMM-Newton on 2002 April 7 for approximately 35 ksec. Using a simple absorbed…

We present a pulse timing analysis of NICER observations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4$-$3658 during the outburst that started on 2022 August 19. Similar to previous outbursts, after decaying from a peak luminosity…

We analysed Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the accretion-powered 401 Hz pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, in order to precisely determine the source distance. While the fluences for the five transient outbursts observed from 1996 were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Duncan Galloway , Andrew Cumming

We present a timing analysis of the 2002 outburst of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. A study of the phase delays of the entire pulse profile shows a behavior that is surprising and difficult to interpret: superposed to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , M. T. Menna , A. Riggio , A. Papitto