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The recent discovery of the first known accretion-powered millisecond pulsar with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer provides the first direct probe of the interaction of an accretion disk with the magnetic field of a weakly magnetic (B<10^10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dimitrios Psaltis , Deepto Chakrabarty

We present the results obtained from detailed X-ray timing and spectral studies of X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 during its giant and normal X-ray outbursts between 2017 and 2023 observed by the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Birendra Chhotaray , Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Prantik Nandi , Sachindra Naik , Neeraj kumari , Mason Ng , Keith C. Gendreau

We report the timing and broad-band spectral properties of the Be transient high mass X-ray binary pulsar GRO J1008-57 using a Suzaku observation in the declining phase of its 2007 November-December outburst. Pulsations with a period of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-17 Sachindra Naik , Biswajit Paul , Chetan Kachhara , Santosh V. Vadawale

We present and interpret several new X-ray features of the X-ray pulsar PSR J1838-0655. The X-ray data are obtained from the archival data of CHANDRA, RXTE}, and SUZAKU. We combine all these X-ray data and fit the spectra with different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Jumpei Takata , Chorng-Yuan Hwang , Jau-Shian Liang

Millisecond pulsar PSR J0218+4232 shows remarkable high-energy properties: very hard pulsed X-ray emission up to ~10 keV and a likely detection of high-energy gamma-rays (> 100 MeV) with a soft spectrum. The relative phasing of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen

We report the discovery of 70.5 ms pulsations from the X-ray source AX J1838.0-0655 using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). PSR J1838-0655 is a rotation-powered pulsar with spin-down luminosity Edot = 5.5e36 ergs/s, characteristic age…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

We report a detailed timing and spectral analysis of the X-ray pulsar 2S~1417-624 using the data from Insight-HXMT during the 2018 outburst. The pulse profiles are highly variable with respect to both unabsorbed flux and energy. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Q. Liu , A. Santangelo , L. D. Kong , L. Ducci , L. Ji , W. Wang , M. M. Serim , C. Güngör , Y. L. Tuo , D. Serim

The magnetar SGR J1745-2900 located in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sgr A$^{\star}$ was detected during its X-ray outburst with the Swifht/XRT telescope in April 2013. For several months after its detection the source was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-10 E. A. Kuznetsova , A. A. Lutovinov , A. N. Semena

We studied spectra for 34 accretion-powered X-ray and one millisecond pulsars that were within the field of view of the INTEGRAL observatory over two years (December 2002 - January 2005) of its in-orbit operation and that were detected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Filippova , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov , R. A. Sunyaev

Accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) undergo different physical regimes depending on the mass accretion rate. Recent observations have shown a dramatic change in the emission properties of this class of sources observed at low luminosity. We…

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

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 present the results of our spectral and timing analysis of the emission from the transient X-ray pulsar XTE J1946+274 based on the simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift/XRT observations in the broad energy range 0.3-79 keV carried out in June…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-12 A. S. Gorban , S. V. Molkov , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

The optical counterpart of the transient, millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 was observed in four colours (BVRI) for five weeks during the 2005 June-July outburst. The optical fluxes declined by ~2 magnitudes during the first 16 days…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. G. Greenhill , A. B. Giles , C. Coutures

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that has provided constraints on parameters, with a focus on mass and radius, of five rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. While the technique can also be applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Bas Dorsman , Tuomo Salmi , Anna L. Watts , Mason Ng , Anna Bobrikova , Vladislav Loktev , Juri Poutanen , Joern Wilms

XMM-Newton observations of the middle-aged radio-quiet $\gamma$-ray pulsar J0554+3107 allowed us, for the first time, firmly identify it in X-rays by detection of pulsations with the pulsar period. In the 0.2-2 keV band, the pulse profile…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 A. S. Tanashkin , A. V. Karpova , A. Y. Potekhin , Y. A. Shibanov , D. A. Zyuzin

We report on observations of the X-ray pulsar IGR J16320-4751 (a.k.a. AX J1631.9-4752) performed simultaneously with INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton. We refine the source position and identify the most likely infrared counterpart. Our simultaneous…

This work is devoted to the study of the broadband 0.8-79 keV spectral and timing properties of the poorly studied X-ray pulsar XTE J1859+083 during its 2015 outburst based on the data from the NuSTAR and Swift observatories. We show that…

We report on the BeppoSAX monitoring of a giant outburst of the transient X-ray pulsar XTE J1946+274 in 1998. The source was detected with a flux of ~ 4 x 10^(-9) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1) (in 0.1 - 120 keV range). The broadband spectrum, typical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 R. Doroshenko , A. Santangelo , V. Doroshenko , S. Piraino

We report on X-ray observations of the solitary 4.8 ms pulsar PSR J0030+0451. The pulsar was one of the last targets observed in DEC-98 by the ROSAT PSPC. X-ray pulses are detected on a $4.5\sigma$ level and make the source the $11^{th}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Werner Becker , Joachim Tr"umper , Andrea N. Lommen , Donald C. Backer