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We present results from 170ksec long RXTE observations of LMC X-1 and LMC X-3, taken in 1996 December, where their spectra can be described by a disc black body plus an additional soft (Gamma~2.8) high-energy power-law (detected up to 50keV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. A. Nowak , J. Wilms , W. A. Heindl , K. Pottschmidt , J. B. Dove , M. C. Begelman

We present the results from the RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1 in its high state. In the energy range of 2-200 keV, the observed X-ray spectrum can be described by a model consisting of a soft blackbody component and a broken power-law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Cui , W. A. Heindl , R. E. Rothschild , S. N. Zhang , K. Jahoda , W. Focke

We have developed an algorithm that, starting from the observed properties of the X-ray spectrum and fast variability of an X-ray binary allows the production of synthetic data reproducing observables such as power density spectra and time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. X. Wu , T. M. Belloni , L. Stella

We report on Cyg X-1 observations performed by the SPI telescope onboard the INTEGRAL mission and distributed over more than 6 years. We investigate the variability of the intensity and spectral shape of this peculiar source in the hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques , Julien Malzac

LSI +61 303 is one of the few X-ray binaries with Be star companion from which both radio and high-energy gamma-ray emission have been observed. We present XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL observations which reveal variability of the X-ray spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Chernyakova , A. Neronov , R. Walter

We present the first unbiased source catalog of the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) mission at high Galactic latitudes ($|b| > 10^{\circ}$), produced from the first 7-month data (2009 September 1 to 2010 March 31) of the Gas Slit…

AGN, powered by accretion onto SMBHs, are thought to be scaled up versions of Galactic black hole X-ray binaries (BH-XRBs). In the past few years evidence of such correspondence include similarities in the broadband shape of the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 O. Gonzalez-Martin , S. Vaughan

The aim of this work is to study both light curve and orbital phase spectroscopy of this source taking advantage of the MAXI/GSC observation strategy. We have investigated the spectral and light curve properties of the X-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Á. Torregrosa , J. J. Rodes-Roca , J. M. Torrejón , G. Sanjurjo-Ferrín , G. Bernabeu

We present the X-ray broadband power spectral density function (PSD) of the X-ray-luminous Seyfert IC 4329a, constructed from light curves obtained via Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer monitoring and an XMM-Newton observation. Modeling the 3-10…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Markowitz

We present the most extensive analysis of Fourier-based X-ray timing properties of the black hole binary Cygnus X-1 to date, based on 12 years of bi-weekly monitoring with RXTE from 1999 to 2011. Our aim is a comprehensive study of timing…

An improved method is utilized to estimate the X-ray power spectral densities (PSD) and the variation time scales of three quasars in the Lockman Hole field. Five archival ROSAT PSPC data covering two year range are analyzed. To estimate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yu-ichiro Ezoe , Naoko Iyomoto , Kazuo Makishima , Gunter Hasinger

We present the time variability characteristics of Cygnus X-1 in its two spectral states. The observations were carried out using the Pointed Proportional Counters (PPC) on-board the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE). The details of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Rao , P. C. Agrawal , B. Paul

We present the third MAXI/GSC catalog in the high Galactic-latitude sky ($|b| > 10^\circ$) based on the 7-year data from 2009 August 13 to 2016 July 31, complementary to that in the low Galactic-latitude sky ($|b| < 10^\circ$; Hori et al.…

The Serendipitous Extragalactic X-ray Source Identification (SEXSI) Program is designed to expand significantly the sample of identified extragalactic hard X-ray sources at intermediate fluxes, 1e-13 erg/cm2/s < S_(2-10 keV) < 1e-15…

The black hole binary Cygnus X-1 has a 5.6 day orbital period. We first detected a clear intensity modulation with the orbital period in its high/soft state with 6 year MAXI data, as well as in its low/hard state. In the low/hard state, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-16 Juri Sugimoto , Shunji Kitamoto , Tatehiro Mihara , Masaru Matsuoka

Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) on the International Space Station (ISS) has two kinds of X-ray detectors: the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) and the Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC). SSC is an X-ray CCD array, consisting of 16 chips, which has…

Context. Variability is a ubiquitous feature of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and the characterisation of the variability is crucial to constrain its physical mechanism and proper applications in AGN studies. The advent of all-sky and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai

Wide-Field MAXI (WF-MAXI: Wide-Field Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image) is a proposed mission to detect and localize X-ray transients including electro-magnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave events such as gamma-ray bursts and supernovae…

The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) is one of the three instruments on board EXIST, a multi-wavelength observatory in charge of performing a global survey of the sky in hard X-rays searching for Super-massive Black Holes (Grindlay & Natalucci,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 L. Natalucci , A. Bazzano , F. Panessa , P. Ubertini , G. Tagliaferri , R. Della Ceca , G. Ghisellini , G. Pareschi , G. Villa , P. Caraveo , M. Fiorini , M. Uslenghi , J. E. Grindlay , B. Ramsey

We evaluate 0.03-20 Hz power spectra of the bright black hole binary Cyg X-1 obtained from non-deconvolved INTEGRAL-ISGRI event data. The ISGRI power spectra are compared to contemporary RXTE-PCA ones in the same hard X-ray energy band of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms , M. A. Nowak , S. Larsson , A. A. Zdziarski , G. G. Pooley