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To investigate the possible cooling of the corona by soft X-rays bursts, we have studied 114 bursts embedded in the known X-ray evolution of 4U 1636-536. We have grouped these bursts according to the ratio of the flux in the 1.5--12 keV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Long Ji , Shu Zhang , YuPeng Chen , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Diego F. Torres , Peter Kretschmar , Masha Chernyakova , Jian Li , Jian-Min Wang

We have used observations of Cygnus X-1 from the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) and BeppoSAX to study the variation in the MeV gamma-ray emission between the hard and soft spectral states, using spectra that cover the energy range 20…

Abridged. We observed the 40 Myr old star DS Tuc A with XMM-Newton and recorded two X-ray bright flares, with the second event occurring about 12 ks after the first one. Their duration from the rise to the end of the decay was of about 8-10…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 I. Pillitteri , C. Argiroffi , A. Maggio , G. Micela , S. Benatti , F. Reale , S. Colombo , S. J. Wolk

We used a ~300 ks long XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 to study the correlation between the 0.2-10 keV X-ray and the 3000-4000 A bands. We found a significant correlation peak at a time lag of 160 ks where the UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Arevalo , I. Papadakis , B. Kuhlbrodt , W. Brinkmann

We use Monte Carlo/Fokker-Planck simulations to study the X-ray time lags. Our results show that soft lags will be observed as long as the decay of the flare is dominated by radiative cooling, even when acceleration and cooling timescales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-27 Xuhui Chen , Giovanni Fossati , Edison Liang , Markus Böttcher

X-ray spectral timing analysis is presented of XMM-Newton observations of the narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy I Zwicky 1 (I Zw 1) taken in 2015 January. After exploring the effect of background flaring on timing analyses, X-ray time lags…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 D. R. Wilkins , L. C. Gallo , C. V. Silva , E. Costantini , W. N. Brandt , G. A. Kriss

We performed the timing and spectral studies of a Z source GX 17+2 observed from Astrosat LAXPC instrument. Cross-Correlation function (CCF) was performed using soft (3-5 keV) and hard (16-40 keV) X -ray bands across the hardness intensity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 K. Sriram , P. Chiranjeevi , S. Malu , V. K. Agrawal

We conducted a multi-frequency campaign for the TeV blazar Mrk~421 in 1998 April. The campaign started from a pronounced high amplitude flare recorded by SAX and Whipple; ASCA observation started three days later. In the X-ray data, we…

We study the energy dependent photon variability from a thermal Comptonizing plasma that is oscillating at kHz frequencies. In particular, we solve the linearised time dependent Kompaneets equation and consider the oscillatory perturbation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Nagendra Kumar , Ranjeev Misra

We analyze the cross-correlation function between the soft and hard X-rays of atoll source 4U 1735-44 with RXTE data, and find the anti-correlated soft and hard time lags of about hecto-second. On the island state, the observations do not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Ya-Juan Lei , Hao-Tong Zhang , Cheng-Min Zhang , Jin-Lu Qu , Hai-Long Yuan , Yi-Qiao Dong , Yong-Heng Zhao , De-Hua Wang , Hong-Xing Yin , Li-Ming Song

Many accreting black holes manifest time lags during outbursts, in which the hard Fourier component typically lags behind the soft component. Despite decades of observations of this phenomenon, the underlying physical explanation for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 John J. Kroon , Peter A. Becker

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the temporal and spectral variability of the low-energy peaked BL Lac object S5 0716+714 with a long (~74 ks)X-ray observation performed by XMM-Newton on 2007 September 24-25. The source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 You-Hong Zhang

We present a detailed analysis of broad band X-ray data of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC5506. 2-10 keV band are detected during a 1-day ASCA observation, while no significant change in the 2-10 keV continuum shape is found. The ASCA spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. G. Wang , T. Mihara , C. Otani , M. Matsuoka , H. Awaki

In this letter we report a tentative detection of soft time lags (i.e. variability of softer photons lags behind the variability of harder photons) in one $XMM-Newton$ observation of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT 2018fyk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Wenda Zhang

We present measurements of the polarization of X-rays in the $2-8 \thinspace \mathrm{keV}$ band from the nucleus of the radio galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A), using a 100ks observation from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Nearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Steven R. Ehlert , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Andrea Marinucci , Herman L. Marshall , Riccardo Middei , Luigi Pacciani , Matteo Perri , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Simonetta Puccetti , Thibault Barnouin , Stefano Bianchi , Ioannis Liodakis , Grzegorz Madejski , Fréderic Marin , Alan P. Marscher , Giorgio Matt , Juri Poutanen , Kinwah Wu , Iván Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane , James Rodi , Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques

We present long term monitoring of MCG-6-30-15 in X-rays, optical and near-IR wavelengths, collected over five years of monitoring. We determine the power spectrum density of all the observed bands and show that after taking into account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 P. Lira , P. Arevalo , P. Uttley , I. M. M. McHardy , L. Videla

We analyse the X-ray time-lags in the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy PG 1244+026 ($M_{\rm BH}\sim 10^7 M_{\rm sun}$, $L/L_{\rm Edd}\sim 1$). The time delay between the soft (0.3--0.7~keV) and harder (1.2--4.0~keV) variations shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 William Alston , Chris Done , Simon Vaughan

We present results of a 3-month combined X-ray/UV/optical monitoring campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 6814. The object was monitored by Swift from June through August 2012 in the X-ray and UV bands and by the Liverpool Telescope from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Jon Troyer , David Starkey , Edward Cackett , Misty Bentz , Michael Goad , Keith Horne , James Seals

We report results from simultaneous ASCA and RXTE observations of Cyg X-1 when the source made a rare transition from the hard (= low) state to the soft (= high) state in 1996. These observations together cover a broad energy range ~0.7--50…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei Cui , K. Ebisawa , T. Dotani , A. Kubota

We report the discovery of hard X-ray delays in the X-ray emission of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 110, based on a long XMM-Newton observation. Cross correlation between the X-ray light curves of different energy bands reveals an energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Surajit Dasgupta , A. R. Rao