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Cen X-3 is a bright, high-mass X-ray binary pulsar. We present a pulse phase-resolved X-ray spectral analysis of data from an archival XMM-Newton observation of Cen X-3 taken during the high state of the source. The observation was entirely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Kinjal Roy , Hemanth Manikantan , Biswajit Paul

We present a comprehensive spectral analysis of the high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) pulsar Centaurus X-3 with the Suzaku observatory covering nearly one orbital period. The light curve shows the presence of extended dips which are rarely seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-17 Sachindra Naik , Biswajit Paul , Zulfikar Ali

We report here an investigation of the X-ray eclipse transitions of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar Cen X-3 in different intensity states. Long term light curve of Cen X-3 obtained with RXTE-ASM spanning for more than 5000 days shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 Jincy Devasia , Biswajit Paul , Marykutty James , Kavila Indulekha

We present the results obtained from timing and spectral studies of high mass X-ray binary pulsar OAO 1657-415 using a Suzaku observations in 2011 September. X-ray pulsations were detected in the light curves up to $\sim$70 keV. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik

The massive X-ray binary Cen X-3 was observed over approximately one quarter of the system's 2.08 day orbit, beginning before eclipse and ending slightly after eclipse center with the Chandra X-ray Observatory using its High-Energy…

We present the results of our study of X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 using XMM-Newton observations. The light curve and the spectrum for this observations were built and Fe triplet within 6.5-7 keV region was detected. The geometric model of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-30 A. V. Tugay , A. A. Vasylenko

We present the results of a 45 ks Chandra observation of the high-mass X-ray binary Cen X--3 at orbital phases between 0.13 and 0.40 (in the eclipse post-egress phases). Here we concentrate on the study of discrete features in the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , N. R. Robba , L. Burderi , G. Lavagetto , A. Riggio

We present here the preliminary results of the study of the fluorescent iron line emission from X-ray pulsars with Be companions. We propose to use properties of this emission to investigate the spatial distribution and physical conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-10 S. Tsygankov , A. Lutovinov

We present spectral variations of the binary X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 observed with the RXTE/PCA during different phases of its 30.5 day long third period. Only out of eclipse data were used for this study. The 3-25 keV spectrum, modeled with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Naik , B. Paul

The Fe K$\alpha$ fluorescence line emission in X-ray spectra is a powerful diagnostic tool for various astrophysical objects to reveal the distribution of cold matter around photo-ionizing sources. The advent of the X-ray microcalorimeter…

We present the results of a spectroscopic study of the Fe K{\alpha} emission of the persistent neutron-star atoll low-mass X-ray binary and type I X-ray burster GX 3+1 with the EPIC-PN on board XMM-Newton. The source shows a flux modulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Piraino , A. Santangelo , P. Kaaret , B. Mück , A. D'Aì , T. DI Salvo , R. Iaria , N. Robba , L. Burderi , E. Egron

We used six simultaneous XMM-Newton and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer plus five Suzaku observations to study the continuum spectrum and the iron emission line in the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53. We modelled the spectra with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Ming Lyu , Mariano Mendez , Andrea Sanna , Jeroen Homan , Tomaso Belloni , Beike Hiemstra

We present spectral variations of the binary X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 using the RXTE/PCA observations at different phases of its 30.5 day long super-orbital period. Only out of eclipse data were used for this study. During the high state of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 S. Naik , B. Paul

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

We present the results from an analysis of data from an \textit{XMM-Newton} observation of the accreting high mass X-ray binary pulsar GX 301$-$2. Spectral analysis in the non-flaring segment of the observation revealed that the equivalent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-03 Kinjal Roy , Hemanth Manikantan , Biswajit Paul

Results of GRANAT/ART-P observations of three X-ray pulsars in non-pulsing states are presented: 1) a statistically significant non-pulsing flux with a simple power-law spectrum was detected during the ``off''- state of Her X-1; 2) a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lutovinov , S. Grebenev , R. Sunyaev

Centaurus X-3 is a well-studied high-mass accreting X-ray binary and a variable source of high energy gamma rays with energies from 100 MeV to 1 TeV. Previous results have suggested that the origin of the gamma rays is not the immediate…

While iron emission lines are well studied in black hole systems, both in X-ray binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei, there has been less of a focus on these lines in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). However, recent observations…

We report a time-resolved analysis of the accreting X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 using observations carried out by NuSTAR, which cover approximately two binary orbits in different intensity states. The pulse profile is relatively stable over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 Qi Liu , Wei Wang , Andrea Santangelo , Lingda Kong , Long Ji , Lorenzo Ducci

Context. The properties of the X-ray emission lines are a fundamental tool for studying the nature of the matter surrounding the neutron star and the phenomena that produce these lines. Aims. The aim of this work is to analyze the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-06 J. J. Rodes-Roca , K. L. Page , J. M. Torrejón , J. P. Osborne , G. Bernabéu
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