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We have investigated the variability of the binary X-ray pulsar, SMC X-1, in data from several X-ray observatories. We confirm the ~60-day cyclic variation of the X-ray flux in the long-term monitoring data from the RXTE and CGRO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Wojdowski , G. W. Clark , A. M. Levine , J. W. Woo , S. N. Zhang

We present the observations of the pulsar SMC X-1 with the ART-P telescope onboard the Granat observatory. We investigate the variability of the flux from the source on time scales of several tens of days. The intensity variation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Lutovinov , S. S. Tsygankov , S. A. Grebenev , M. N. Pavlinsky , R. A. Sunyaev

We present an update of the orbital ephemeris of the binary X-ray pulsar Her X-1 and determine an improved value for the rate of orbital decay. In addition, we report the first measurement of the orbital eccentricity. We have analyzed pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Staubert , D. Klochkov , J. Wilms

We present the results of timing and spectral analysis of X-ray high state observations of the high-mass X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 with Chandra, XMM-Newton, and ROSAT, taken between 1991 and 2001. The source has L_X ~ 3-5 x 10^38 ergs/s, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Neilsen , R. C. Hickox , S. D. Vrtilek

We present analysis of RXTE--PCA observations of GX 1+4 between March 3, 2001 and January 31, 2003 together with the CGRO--BATSE X-ray flux and frequency derivative time series between 1991 and 1999. From the timing analysis of RXTE-PCA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-14 M. M. Serim , S. Sahiner , D. Cerri-Serim , S. C. Inam , A. Baykal

We analyze the observations of the X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 performed by the INTEGRAL observatory and the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) of the RXTE observatory over a wide energy range. The observed hard X-ray flux from the source is shown to change by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

We analyzed spectral variations of $\sim 8.5$ days long RXTE monitoring observations of Her X-1 in December 2001. This set of observations enables, for the first time, frequent continuous monitoring (111 pointings in $\sim 8.5$ days) of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. C. Inam , A. Baykal

We report here detailed timing and spectral analysis of two Beppo-SAX observations of the binary X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 carried out during the low and high states of its 30.5 days long super-orbital period. Timing analysis clearly shows 13.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Naik , B. Paul

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 report results of RXTE observations of PSR B1951+32 using the PCA instrument for 19k seconds during 1996 March 24th. We applied the contemporaneous radio ephemeris and various statistical tests to search for evidence of pulsation. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Cheng Ho

We analyse \emph{INTEGRAL} (between 2005 October and 2007 November) and \emph{RXTE} (between 2007 June and 2011 March) observations of the accretion powered pulsar 4U 1907+09. From \emph{INTEGRAL} IBIS-ISGRI and \emph{RXTE}-PCA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Sahiner , S. C. Inam , A. Baykal

We present a detailed analysis of observations of the high mass X-ray binary Cen X-3 spanning two consecutive binary orbits performed with the RXTE satellite in early March 1997. The PCA and HEXTE light curves both show a clear reduction in…

We report observations of SMC X-1 in three new high-intensity states with ROSAT HRI in December 1995, May 1997, and March 1998 in which pulsations with a period of 0.70769+/-0.00006 sec, 0.70706+/-0.00001 sec, and 0.706707+/-0.00001 sec…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Kahabka , X. -D. Li

It has long been argued that better timing precision allowed by satelites like Rossi X-ray Timing Experiments (RXTE) will allow us to measure the orbital eccentricity and the angle of periastron of some of the bright persistent high mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Harsha Raichur , Biswajit Paul

RXTE observations of the X-ray transient pulsar 2S 1417-62 between 1999 November and 2000 August with a total exposure of $\sim 394$ ksec were analyzed. Observations include a main outburst followed by a series of mini outbursts. Changes in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Inam , A. Baykal , D. M. Scott , M. Finger , J. Swank

We study RXTE PCA data for the high mass X-ray binary source SMC X-1 between 2003-10 and 2003-12 when the source was in high states. The source is found to be frequently bursting which can be seen as flares in lightcurves on an average of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Binay Rai , Pragati Pradhan , Bikash Chandra Paul

PSR B0656+14 was observed by the {\it Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)} with the proportional counter array (PCA) and the high-energy x-ray timing experiment (HEXTE) for 160 ksec during August 22 -- September 3, 1997. No pulsation was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Cheng Ho

We analyzed RXTE archival observations of 4U 1907+09 between 17 February 1996 and 6 March 2002. The pulse timing analysis showed that the source stayed at almost {\bf{constant}} period around August 1998 and then started to spin-down at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Baykal , S. C. Inam , E. Beklen

We present here results obtained from three BeppoSAX observations of the accretion-powered X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 carried out during the declining phases of its 40--60 days long super-orbital period. Timing analysis of the data clearly shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Naik , B. Paul

We analyzed RXTE-PCA observations of a recent outburst of the X-ray pulsar XMMU J054134.7$-$682550. We calculated the pulse frequency history of the source. We found no sign of a binary companion. The source spins up when the X-ray flux is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-15 S. C. Inam , L. J. Townsend , V. A. McBride , A. Baykal , M. J. Coe , R. H. D. Corbet
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