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Aims. INTEGRAL has been monitoring the Galactic center region for more than a decade. Over this time INTEGRAL has detected hundreds of type-I X-ray bursts from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34, a.k.a. "the slow burster".…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 J. J. E. Kajava , C. Sánchez-Fernández , E. Kuulkers , J. Poutanen

Observations of thermonuclear (Type I) X-ray bursts from neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed large amplitude, high coherence X-ray brightness oscillations with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tod E. Strohmayer

We report on multi-band observations of the transient source Swift J0840.7-3516, which was detected in outburst in 2020 February by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The outburst episode lasted just ~5 days, during which the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 F. Coti Zelati , A. de Ugarte Postigo , T. D. Russell , A. Borghese , N. Rea , P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , S. Campana

The optical light curve of the Be/neutron star binary AX J0049.4-7323 has been investigated using data from the MACHO and OGLE-II projects. This X-ray source, whose neutron star has a very slow rotation rate (P_pulse=755.5 sec), shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. P. Cowley , P. C. Schmidtke

We investigated the decades' long-term X-ray variations in bright low-mass X-ray binaries containing a neutron star (NS-LMXB). The light curves of MAXI/GSC and RXTE/ASM covers $\sim$ 26 yr, and high-quality X-ray light curves are obtained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Kazumi Asai , Tatehiro Mihara , Masaru Matsuoka

We propose a simplified picture of low mass X-ray binaries containing a neutron star (NS-LMXBs) based on data obtained from AqlX-1 and 4U1608-52 which often produce outbursts. In this picture we propose at least three states and three state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Masaru Matsuoka , Kazumi Asai

We performed the spectral and temporal analysis of MAXI J1803-298 using AstroSat/LAXPC and NICER observations taken in May 2021 during the initial phase of the outburst. We found that the source traverses through the hard, intermediate, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Arbind Pradhan , Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Biplob Sarkar

Observations of the black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries show that the luminosity of the hard-to-soft state transition is usually higher than that of the soft-to-hard state transition, indicating additional parameters other than the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 H. Zhang. , W. -F. Yu

The purpose of this study is to find transient X-ray sources in M31, and to investigate and classify their nature. Three X-ray transients were observed with Swift. For each of the three X-ray transients we use the Swift X-ray and optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Voss , W. Pietsch , F. Haberl , H. Stiele , J. Greiner , G. Sala , D. H. Hartmann , D. Hatzidimitriou

1RXS J180408.9--342058 is a low mass X-ray binary hosting a neutron star, which shows X-ray activity at very different mass-accretion regimes, from very faint to almost the Eddington luminosity. In this work, we present a comprehensive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 A. Marino , M. Del Santo , M. Cocchi , A. D'Aì , A. Segreto , C. Ferrigno , T. Di Salvo , J. Malzac , R. Iaria , L. Burderi

In the recent papers by Gusakov, Chugunov, and Kantor (2014) a new scenario describing evolution of rapidly rotating neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries was proposed. The scenario accounts for a resonant interaction of normal r modes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-11 Elena Kantor , Mikhail Gusakov , Andrey Chugunov

In this review I briefly describe the latest advances in studies of aperiodic variability of accreting X-ray binaries and outline the model which currently describe the majority of observational appearances of variability of accreting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Revnivtsev

We report NuSTAR observations of the millisecond pulsar - low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) transition system PSR J1023+0038 from June and October 2013, before and after the formation of an accretion disk around the neutron star. Between June…

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) have emerged in the last decade as a unique class of neutron stars at the crossroads between accretion- and rotation-powered phenomena. In their (sub-luminous) accretion disk state, with X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-17 Manuel Linares , Barbara De Marco , Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis

In this paper we report on a long multi-wavelength observational campaign of the supergiant fast X-ray transient prototype IGR J17544-2619. A 150 ks-long observation was carried out simultaneously with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, catching the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 E. Bozzo , V. Bhalerao , P. Pradhan , J. Tomsick , P. Romano , C. Ferrigno , S. Chaty , L. Oskinova , A. Manousakis , R. Walter , M. Falanga , S. Campana , L. Stella , M. Ramolla , R. Chini

We report on the detection and follow-up multi-wavelength observations of the new X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132 with the MAXI/GSC, Swift, and ground-based optical telescopes. The source was first recognized with the MAXI/GSC on 2017 March…

SAX J1748.9-2021 is a transiently accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. It is also known as an X-ray burster source discovered by Beppo-SAX. We analysed the persistent emission and type-I X-ray burst properties during its 2015 outburst. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Zhaosheng Li , V. De Falco , M. Falanga , E. Bozzo , L. Kuiper , J. Poutanen , A. Cumming , D. K. Galloway , Shu Zhang

We report results from a broadband spectral analysis of the low mass X-ray binary MXB 1658-298 with the Swift/XRT and NuSTAR observations made during its 2015-2017 outburst. The source showed different spectral states and accretion rates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-04 Rahul Sharma , Abdul Jaleel , Chetana Jain , Jeewan C. Pandey , Biswajit Paul , Anjan Dutta

We have conducted a 3-month program of simultaneous optical, soft and hard X-ray monitoring of the LMXB 4U1636-536/V801 Ara using the SMARTS 1.3m telescope and archival RXTE/ASM and Swift/XRT data. 4U1636-536 has been exhibiting a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 I. C. Shih , P. A. Charles , R. Cornelisse

The neutron star binary SAX J1747.0-2853, located in the Galactic Center region at about 0.5 deg from Sgr A* and at a distance of 9 kpc, has been observed in outburst four times (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001) by BeppoSAX and RossiXTE. At the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Natalucci , A. Bazzano , M. Cocchi , P. Ubertini , R. Cornelisse , J. Heise , J. J. M. in 't Zand