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We present observations of the accretion-powered X-ray pulsar (XRP) 4U 1907+09, conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) that delivers the first high-quality polarization measurements of this source. 4U 1907+09 was…

We present results from two observations of the wind-accreting X-ray pulsar 4U 1907+09 using the Suzaku observatory. The broadband time-averaged spectrum allows us to examine the continuum emission of the source and the cyclotron resonance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Rivers , A. Markowitz , K. Pottschmidt , S. Roth , L. Barragán , F. Fürst , S. Suchy , I. Kreykenbohm , J. Wilms , R. Rothschild

We report the results from a detailed timing and spectral study of transient X-ray pulsars, 4U 1901+03 during its 2019 outburst. We performed broadband spectroscopy in the 1-70 keV energy band using four observations made with Swift and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Aru Beri , Tinku , Nirmal K. Iyer , Chandreyee Maitra

The source 4U 2206+54 is one of the most enigmatic high-mass X-ray binaries. In spite of intensive searches, X-ray pulsations have not been detected in the time range 0.001-1000 s. A cyclotron line at ~30 keV has been suggested by various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Reig , J. M Torrejon , I. Negueruela , P. Blay , M. Ribo , J. Wilms

X-ray observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar 4U~1907+09, obtained during February 1996 with the Proportional Counter Array on the Rossi X-ray Timing Experiment (RXTE), have enabled the first measurement of the intrinsic pulse period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. J. M. in 't Zand , A. Baykal , T. E. Strohmayer

We investigate the X-ray variability of the supergiant X-ray binary 4U 1907+09 using the new NuSTAR observation of 2024. The source had a relatively stable flux level during previous NuSTAR observations, but the flux varied significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Raj Kumar , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Subir Bhattacharyya

We have studied the timing and spectral properties of the BeXB 4U 1901+03 during the 2019 outburst using \textit{NuSTAR}, \textit{Swift}, and \textit{NICER} observations. Flares are in all observations and were of tens to hundreds of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Binay Rai , Bikash Chandra Paul

High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest objects of our Galaxy in the high energy domain (0.1-100 keV). Despite our relatively good knowledge of their basic emission mechanisms, the complex problem of understanding their time and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Ferrigno , M. Falanga , E. Bozzo , P. A. Becker , D. Klochkov , A. Santangelo

Results on timing and spectral properties of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar 3A 0726-260 (4U 0728-25) are presented. The binary was observed on 2016 May 6-7 with the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) and Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Jayashree Roy , P. C. Agrawal , B. Singari , R. Misra

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

The anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 was observed with Suzaku on 2007 August 15 for a net exposure of -100 ks, and was detected in a 0.4 to ~70 keV energy band. The intrinsic pulse period was determined as 8.68878 \pm 0.00005 s, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Teruaki Enoto , Kazuo Makishima , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Motohide Kokubun , Madoka Kawaharada , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Noriaki Shibazaki

We report on a detailed spectral analysis of emission from X-ray pulsar 4U 1901+03 using data obtained by the Insight-HXMT and NuSTAR observatories during the 2019 outburst of the source. Thanks to the extensive coverage of the outburst by…

We report the first INTEGRAL timing and spectral analysis of the high mass X-ray binary source 2S 0114+65 at high energies (5-100 keV). The pulse period was found at 2.668 hr with a high pulsed fraction, ~80% in both the 20-40 keV and 40-80…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. W. Bonning , M. Falanga

We report on observations of the low-mass X-ray binary 4U1626-67 performed during the BeppoSAX Science Verification Phase. We present the broad-band 0.1-100 keV pulse averaged spectrum, that is well fit by a two-component function: a 0.27…

4U 1954+319 was discovered 25 years ago, but only recently has a clear picture of its nature begun to emerge. We present for the first time a broad-band spectrum of the source and a detailed timing study using more than one year of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Mattana , D. Gotz , M. Falanga , F. Senziani , A. De Luca , P. Esposito , P. A. Caraveo

We present temporal and spectral analysis of simultaneous 0.5-79 keV Swift-XRT and NuSTAR observations of the magnetar 4U 0142+61. The pulse profile changes significantly with photon energy between 3 and 35 keV. The pulse fraction increases…

In this Letter we present results from INTEGRAL and RXTE observations of the spectral and timing behavior of the High Mass X-ray Binary A 0535+26 during its August/September 2005 normal (type I) outburst with an average flux…

4U 0614+09 is a low-mass X-ray binary with a weakly magnetized neutron star primary. It shows variability on time scales that range from years down to ~0.8 milliseconds. Before the Chandra and XMM-Newton era, emission features around 0.7…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Mendez , Jean Cottam , F. Paerels

We discovered a periodicity at about 8.7s from the X--ray sources 4U0142+61, previously considered a possible black hole candidate on the basis of its ultrasoft spectrum. The pulsations are visible only in the 1--4 keV energy range, during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 G. L. Israel , S. Mereghetti , L. Stella

We report on the discovery of X-ray pulsations in the Be/X-ray binary IGR J21343+4738 during an XMM-Newton observation. We obtained a barycentric corrected pulse period of 320.35+-0.06 seconds. The pulse profile displays a peak at low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Reig , A. Zezas