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We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detection of a $\gamma$-ray source at the position of SAX J1808.4$-$3658. This transient low-mass X-ray binary contains an accreting millisecond puslar, which is only seen during its month-long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-04 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , V. Jithesh

We present a timing and spectral analysis of the X-ray pulsar XTE J1946+274 observed with Suzaku during an outburst decline in 2010 October and compare with previous results. XTE J1946+274 is a transient X-ray binary consisting of a Be-type…

We report on an X-ray observation of the Be X-ray Binary Pulsar RX J0059.2-7138, performed by XMM-Newton in March 2014. The 19 ks long observation was carried out about three months after the discovery of the latest outburst from this Small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Sidoli , N. La Palombara , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti

The bursting pulsar GRO J1744-28 is a Galactic low-mass X-ray binary that distinguishes itself by displaying type-II X-ray bursts: brief, bright flashes of X-ray emission that likely arise from spasmodic accretion. Combined with its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 N. Degenaar , J. M. Miller , F. A. Harrison , J. A. Kennea , C. Kouveliotou , G. Younes

We present the long term X-ray light curves, detailed spectral and timing analyses of XTE J1908+094 using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Proportional Counter Array observations covering two outbursts in 2002 and early 2003. At the onset of…

The transient X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 was previously found to exhibit Type I outbursts occurring at stable orbital phases before its first observed Type II outburst in 2012. In this work, we extend the study to investigate the phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Yongfeng Hu , Hua Xiao , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Long Ji , Juri Poutanen , Runting Huang

We report on timing and spectral analysis of transient Be X-ray pulsar GRO J1750-27 by using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observation from September 2021. This is the fourth outburst of the system since 1995. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Prince Sharma , Chetana Jain , Anjan Dutta

We report on the discovery of a transient X-ray pulsars, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with a pulse period of 292 s. A series of Chandra pointings fortuitously recorded in 2010 April-May the occurrence of a two-weeks-long outburst,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-06 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , L. Sidoli , G. A. Rodríguez Castillo , N. Masetti , P. D'Avanzo , S. Campana

The X-ray light curve and broad band spectral properties of the millisecond X-ray pulsar/burster SAX J1808.4-3658 are reported. In the course of RXTE observations in April--May 1998 the 3--150 keV luminosity of the source decreased by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Gilfanov , M. Revnivtsev , R. Sunyaev , E. Churazov

We report the results of extensive high-energy observations of the X-ray transient and black hole candidate XTE J1720-318 performed with INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton and RXTE. The source, which underwent an X-ray outburst in 2003 January, was…

Millisecond radio pulsars are neutron stars that have been spun-up by the transfer of angular momentum during the low-mass X-ray binary phase. The transition from an accretion-powered to a rotation-powered pulsar takes place on evolutionary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Campana , P. D'Avanzo , J. Casares , S. Covino , G. L. Israel , G. Marconi , Rob Hynes , P. Charles , L. Stella

An outburst of the X-ray transient source XTE J1806--246 (2S1803--245) has been observed by Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer in April-July 1998. Strong quasi-periodical oscillations (QPO) with a central peak frequency around 9 Hz was detected in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Revnivtsev , K. Borozdin , A. Emelyanov

The X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 went through a giant outburst in 2022 and reached a record-high flux of 2.3 Crab, as observed by Swift/BAT. We study the evolution of different spectral and timing properties of the source using NICER…

We investigated the optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray variability of the pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545. Our timing and spectral analyses of the X-ray and gamma-ray emissions from the source using RXTE and INTEGRAL data show that the shape of its…

IGR J18483-0311 is a poorly known transient hard X-ray source discovered by INTEGRAL during observations of the Galactic Center region performed between 23--28 April 2003. Aims: To detect new outbursts from IGR J18483-0311 using INTEGRAL…

The results of X-ray observations of Galactic superluminal jet source GRS 1915+105 during its low luminosity state and state transitions in October, 1996 - April, 1997 with PCA and HEXTE instruments aboard Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Trudolyubov , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov

We present and interpret several new X-ray features of the X-ray pulsar PSR J1838-0655. The X-ray data are obtained from the archival data of CHANDRA, RXTE}, and SUZAKU. We combine all these X-ray data and fit the spectra with different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Jumpei Takata , Chorng-Yuan Hwang , Jau-Shian Liang

A class of low-mass X-ray binary sources are known to be both X-ray burst sources and millisecond pulsars at the same time. A new source of this class was discovered by High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2) on 14 June 2005 as a source…

Context: The transient hard X-ray source IGR J11321-5311 was discovered by INTEGRAL on June 2005, during observations of the Crux spiral arm. To date, this is the only detection of the source to be reported by any X/gamma-ray mission. Aims:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Sguera , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , A. B. Hill , A. J. Dean , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , P. Ubertini

XTE J1810-197 is the first transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar ever discovered. Its highly variable X-ray flux allowed us to study the timing and spectral emission properties of a magnetar candidate over a flux range of about two orders of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Bernardini , G. L. Israel , S. Dall'Osso , L. Stella , N. Rea , S. Zane , R. Turolla , R. Perna , M. Falanga , S. Campana , D. Götz , S. Mereghetti , A. Tiengo