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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Be/X-ray binary pulsar SXP6.85 = XTE J0103-728 underwent a large Type II outburst beginning on 2008 August 10. The source was consistently seen for the following 20 weeks (MJD = 54688 - 54830). We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 L. J. Townsend , M. J. Coe , V. A. McBride , A. J. Bird , M. P. E. Schurch , R. H. D. Corbet , F. Haberl , J. L. Galache , A. Udalski

The number of known Be/X-ray binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud is small compared to the observed population of the Galaxy or the Small Magellanic Cloud. The discovery of a system in outburst provides the rare opportunity to measure its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , A. Rau , E. S. Bartlett , X. -L. Zhang , P. Schady , W. Pietsch , J. Greiner , M. J. Coe , A. Udalski

Circinus X-1 is a neutron-star-accreting X-ray binary in a wide (P$_{\rm orb}$ = 16.6 d), eccentric orbit. After two years of relatively low X-ray luminosity, in May 2010 Circinus X-1 went into outburst, reaching 0.4 Crab flux. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 A. D'Aì , E. Bozzo , A. Papitto , R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , A. Riggio , E. Egron , N. R. Robba

We report results of Swift observations for the high mass Be/X-ray binary system 1A 1118-615, during an outburst stage in January, 2009 and at a flaring stage in March, 2009. Using the epoch-folding method, we successfully detected a pulsed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-19 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Jumpei Takata , Albert K. H. Kong , Chorng-Yuan Hwang

1A 0535+262 is a Be X-ray binary pulsar and one of the only galactic pulsar systems to show radio jet emission. Characterizing the very high energy emission (VHE, >100 GeV) in these extreme microquasars is critical to understanding their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-24 Matthew Lundy

The Be X-ray pulsar, SMC X-3 underwent a giant outburst from 2016 August to 2017 March, which was monitored with the Swift satellite. During the outburst, its broadband flux increased dramatically, and the unabsorbed X-ray luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Shan-Shan Weng , Ming-Yu Ge , Hai-Hui Zhao , Wei Wang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Wei-Hao Bian , Qi-Rong Yuan

SXP 5.05 is a Be/X-ray binary with a neutron star companion located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. It was first detected in 2013, and later that year, SXP 5.05 underwent a massive optical and X-ray outburst. This outburst dwarfs any other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 R. O. Brown , M. J. Coe , W. C. G. Ho , A. T. Okazaki

Using BATSE and RXTE observations from 1991 April to 2001 August we have detected 71 outbursts from 82 periastron passages of EXO 2030+375, a 42-second transient X-ray pulsar with a Be star companion, including several outbursts from 1993…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Colleen A. Wilson , Mark H. Finger , M. J. Coe , Silas Laycock , J. Fabregat

SXP 31.0 is an X-ray source in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) that was first identified as a Be X-ray Binary (BeXRB) system when it went into X-ray outbusrst in 1998. It is now known to consist of an OBe main sequence star and a neutron…

We report the results of eROSITA and NICER observations of the June 2020 outburst of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0529.8-6556 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, along with the analysis of archival X-ray and optical data from this source. We…

The persistent Be/X-ray binary RX J0440.9+4431 flared in 2010 and 2011 and has been followed by various X-ray facilities Swift, RXTE, XMM-Newton, and INTEGRAL. We studied the source timing and spectral properties as a function of its X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 C. Ferrigno , R. Farinelli , E. Bozzo , K. Pottschmidt , D. Klochkov , P. Kretschmar

We report on a thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray burst that was detected from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary SAX J1810.8-2609 in 2007 with Swift. This event was longer (~20 min) and more energetic (a radiated energy of Eb~6.5E39 erg)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands

Strongly-magnetized ($B\geq10^{12}$ G) accreting neutron stars (NSs) are prime targets for studying the launching of jets by objects with a solid surface; while classical jet-launching models predict that such NSs cannot launch jets, recent…

We report the discovery of a fairly bright transient during observations with the Wide Field Cameras on board the BeppoSAX satellite in September 1996. It was detected at a peak intensity of 0.1 Crab (2 to 10 keV) and lasted between 6 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. J. M. in 't Zand , J. Heise , J. M. Muller , A. Bazzano , M. Cocchi , L. Natalucci , P. Ubertini

Simultaneous HESS/CHANDRA/optical observations were performed on the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 in the night of July 29-30 2006, when the source underwent its second major gamma-ray outburst in Summer 2006. This event took place about 44…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

During the summer of 2006, the accreting X-ray pulsar EXO 2030+375 underwent its first giant outburst since its discovery in 1985. Our observations include the first ever of the rise of a giant outburst of EXO 2030+375. EXO 2030+375 was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Colleen A. Wilson , Mark H. Finger , Ascension Camero-Arranz

The Be/X-ray binary system LS V +44 17 (RX J0440.9+4431) is a potential member of the rare class of gamma-ray binaries. The system is comprised of a Be star and a neutron star companion with an orbital period of 150 days. In December of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-24 Jamie Holder

The second known outburst of the WZ Sge type dwarf nova GW Lib was observed in April 2007. We have obtained unique multiwavelength data of this outburst which lasted ~ 26 days. AAVSO observers recorded the outburst in the optical, which was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Byckling , J. P. Osborne , P. J. Wheatley , G. A. Wynn , A. Beardmore , V. Braito , K. Mukai , R. G. West

We have used the CANGAROO-III imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to observe the high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object PKS 2155-304 between 2006 July 28 (MJD 53944) and August 2, triggered by the H.E.S.S. report that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 III collaboration , Y. Sakamoto , K. Nishijima , T. Mizukami , E. Yamazaki , J. Kushida

We report observations using the Swift/XRT, NuSTAR, and Chandra X-ray telescopes of the transient X-ray source CXOGC J174540.0-290005, during its 2013 outburst. Due to its location in the field of multiple observing campaigns targeting Sgr…