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The discovery of source states in the X-ray emission of black-hole binaries and neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries constituted a major step forward in the understanding of the physics of accretion onto compact objects. While there are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-13 Pablo Reig , Elisa Nespoli

Of all known persistent stellar-mass black hole candidates, only LMC X-1 and LMC X-3 consistently show spectra that are dominated by a soft, thermal component. We present results from long (170ksec) Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Wilms , M. A. Nowak , J. B. Dove , K. Pottschmidt , W. A. Heindl , M. C. Begelman , R. Staubert

We report on X-ray monitoring observations of the transient black hole candidate (BHC) XTE J1752-223 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The source was discovered on 2009 October 23 and during its low/hard state, which lasted for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-23 H. Stiele , T. Munoz-Darias , S. Motta , T. Belloni

We have investigated properties of the Quasi Periodic Oscillation (QPO) features in the accretion powered X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 over a period of about four years using observations carried out with the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Harsha Raichur , Biswajit Paul

We aim to study the variability properties of bright hard X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with redshift between 0.3 and 1.6 detected in the Chandra Deep Field South (XMM-CDFS) by a long XMM observation. Taking advantage of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 S. Falocco , M. Paolillo , A. Comastri , F. J. Carrera , P. Ranalli , K. Iwasawa , I. Georgantopoulos , C. Vignali , R. Gilli

In this paper, the spectra of the persistent emission from anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and their variation with spin-down rate $\dot{\Omega}$ is considered. Firstly, based on an accretion-powered model, the influences of both magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Y. Lu , W. Wang , Y. Zhao

We report on the results of the first XMM systematic "excess variance" study of all the radio quiet, X-ray un-obscured AGN. The entire sample consist of 161 sources observed by XMM for more than 10 ks in pointed observations which is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Gabriele Ponti , Iossif Papadakis , Stefano Bianchi , Matteo Guainazzi , Giorgio Matt , Phil Uttley , Fonseca Bonilla , Nuria

We compare the optical spectral types with the X-ray spectral properties for a uniformly selected (sources with fluxes greater than the 3 sigma level and above a flux limit of f_2-8 keV > 3.5x10^-15 erg/cm2/s), highly spectroscopically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Trouille , A. J. Barger , L. L. Cowie , Y. Yang , R. F. Mushotzky

We present the results of the X-ray spectral analysis of the first deep X-ray survey with the XMM-Newton observatory during Performance Verification. We restrict the analysis to the sample of 98 sources with more than 70 net counts (flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Mainieri , J. Bergeron , G. Hasinger , I. Lehmann , P. Rosati , M. Schmidt , G. Szokoly , R. Della Ceca

We analyzed the spectral and temporal features of X-ray sources in M81 using data from the relevant ROSAT-PSPC/HRI observations. We discuss the main features of the point-like nucleus and of the second brightest source in the field (X-9),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. La Parola , G. Fabbiano , D. W. Kim , G. Peres

Cen X-3 is a compact, high-mass X-ray binary (HMXRB), likely powered by Roche lobe overflow. We present a phase-resolved X-ray spectral and timing analysis of a target of opportunity \textit{Chandra} observation made during a low-flux to…

INTEGRAL and RXTE performed three simultaneous observations of the nearby radio galaxy Cen A in 2003 March, 2004 January, and 2004 February with the goals of investigating the geometry and emission processes via the spectral/temporal…

The rapid variability of X-ray binaries produces a wide range of X-ray states that are linked to activity across the electromagnetic spectrum. It is particularly challenging to study a sample of sources large enough to include all types in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-30 John M. Dickey , S. D. Vrtilek , Michael McCollough , Bram Boroson , John A. Tomsick , Charles Bailyn , Jay M. Blanchard , Charlotte Johnson

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

We investigate the cyclotron resonant scattering features (CRSFs) of the accreting X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 and significantly detect the 29 keV cyclotron line features in the hard X-ray averaged spectroscopy studies based on the recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-29 Qi Liu , Wei Wang , Wen Yang , Xiao Chen , Hanji Wu

We present results from three observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) of LMC X-3, obtained while the source was in an extended 'low/hard' state. The data reveal a hard X-ray spectrum which is well fit by a pure power law…

The Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 exhibits several episodes of steady X-ray emission characterized by a hard power-law spectrum and intense Quasi Periodic Oscillations. It is known that there are two types of such low-hard states, one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. V. Vadawale , A. R. Rao , S. K. Chakrabarti

We analyzed 39 ks NuSTAR observation data of the high mass X-ray binary Cen X-3 in order to investigate the orbital- and spin-phase spectral variability. The observation covers the orbital phase of $\Phi=0.199$-$0.414$ of the source, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Atsushi Tanimoto , Hiromasa Suzuki , Satoshi Takashima , Aya Bamba

We carry out a systematic study of the X-ray emission from the active nuclei of the 0.02<z<0.7 2Jy sample, using Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. We combine our results with those from mid-IR, optical emission line and radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-09 B. Mingo , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , D. Dicken , D. A. Evans , R. Morganti , C. Tadhunter

We conducted a $369\;{\rm ks}$ NuSTAR observation on the X-ray pulsar Centaurus X-3, which covered two consecutive orbital cycles of the source, including two eclipse durations. We investigated the orbital-phase spectral variability over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Atsushi Tanimoto , Hiromasa Suzuki , Satoshi Takashima , Aya Bamba