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We present the timing and spectral properties of the transient X-ray pulsar GX 304-1 during its recent outburst in 2010 August, using observations carried out with the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) instrument on-board the Rossi X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Jincy Devasia , Marykutty James , Biswajit Paul , Kavila Indulekha

Below an accretion rate of approximately a few per cent of the Eddington accretion rate, X-ray binary systems are not usually found in the soft spectral state. However, at accretion rates a factor of a few lower still, in the hard state,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-18 Chris J. Skipper , Ian M. McHardy

We present a new spectral-timing technique for phase-resolved spectroscopy and apply it to the low-frequency Type B quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) from the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4. We show that on the QPO time-scale the spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-18 Abigail L. Stevens , Phil Uttley

We present the results from spectral and timing study of the Z source GX 340+0 using AstroSat's SXT and LAXPC data. During the observation the source traced out the complete Z-track, allowing for the spectral evolution study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Suchismito Chattopadhyay , Yashpal Bhulla , Ranjeev Misra , Soma Mandal

We report multiwavelength observations of the black hole transient GX 339-4 during its outburst decay in 2011 using the data from RXTE, Swift and SMARTS. Based on the X-ray spectral, temporal, and the optical/infrared (OIR) properties, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Tolga Dincer , Emrah Kalemci , Michelle M. Buxton , Charles D. Bailyn , John A. Tomsick , Stephane Corbel

We perform broadband ($0.7-100$ keV) spectral analysis of five hard state observations of the low-mass back hole X-ray binary GX~339--4 taken by AstroSat during the rising phase of three outbursts from $2019$ to $2022$. We find that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-18 Swadesh Chand , Gulab C. Dewangan , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Dipankar Bhattacharya , N. P. S. Mithun , Santosh V. Vadawale

We present a detailed study of the 5 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) recently discovered in the bright X-ray transient and black-hole candidate GRS 1739-278 (Borozdin & Trudolyubov 2000) during a Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rudy Wijnands , Mariano Mendez , Jon M. Miller , Jeroen Homan

The microquasar GX 339-4 experienced a new outburst in 2010: it was observed simultaneously at various wavelengths from radio up to soft gamma-rays. We focused on observations that are quasi-simultaneous with those made with the INTEGRAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Cadolle Bel , J. Rodriguez , P. D'Avanzo , D. M. Russell , J. Tomsick , S. Corbel , F. Lewis , F. Rahoui , M. Buxton , P. Goldoni , E. Kuulkers

We report on about 4 hrs of observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer on 1997 May 2 of the low-mass X-ray binary and Z source GX 349+2 (Sco X-2). Initially the source was in the normal branch (NB), later it moved to the flaring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Erik Kuulkers , Michiel van der Klis

We have observed the black hole candidate X-ray binary GX 339-4 at radio wavelengths before, during and after the 1998 high/soft X-ray state transition. We find that the radio emission from the system is strongly correlated with the hard…

We reported previously that for Cyg X-1 there is a settling period following the transition from hard to soft state (astro-ph/9610071). During the transiton, The low energy spectrum (below ~10 keV) varies significantly from observation to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 W. Cui , S. N. Zhang , K. Jahoda , W. Focke , J. Swank , W. A. Heindl , R. E. Rothschild

GX 339--4 is a well-known microquasar. In this contribution we show the obtained results with the INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton observatories of the outburst undertaken on 2007. The observations cover spectral evolution from the hard, soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 M. D. Caballero-Garcia , J. M. Miller , A. C. Fabian

We present the results of analysis of the X-ray transient source MAXI J1836-194 during its outburst in August 2011. MAXI GSC detected the source on 30th August 2011, when it started rising from the quiescence. We have studied the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-07 D Radhika , M C Ramadevi , S Seetha

We study energy dependencies of quasi-periodic oscillations from a number of black hole X-ray binaries. The selected sources were observed by RXTE at time periods close to state transitions and showed QPO in the 1-10 Hz range. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Sobolewska , P. T. Zycki

We present a study of the correlated spectral and timing behavior of the new X-ray transient SAX J1711.6-3808 during its 2001 outburst using data obtained with the RXTE. We also investigate the correlations between those source properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rudy Wijnands , Jon M. Miller

We present the results of a detailed analysis of RXTE observations which show an unusual state transition between high-soft and low-soft states in the microquasar GRS 1915+105. The RXTE pointed observations reveal that these events appeared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Naik , A. R. Rao , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

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 analyzed RXTE/PCA and HEXTE data of the transient black hole binary GX 339-4, col- lected over a time span of eight years. We studied the properties and the behavior of low frequency quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Motta , T. Muñoz-Darias , P. Casella , T. Belloni , J. Homan

We analyse five observations of the X-ray binary GX 339-4 by the soft gamma-ray OSSE detector on board CGRO simultaneous with either Ginga or RXTE observations. The source was bright during four of them, with the luminosity of L ~ 10^{37}…

We present the spectro-timing analysis of the black hole binary system GX 339-4 using AstroSat data extracted at the beginning of outbursts in 2017 and 2019. The joint spectral fitting of LAXPC and SXT data revealed that the source was in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-18 Nazma Husain , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen