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We report on the results of the $XMM-Newton$ observation of IGR J01572-7259 during its most recent outburst in 2016 May, the first since 2008. The source reached a flux $f \sim 10^{-10}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, which allowed us to perform a…

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We report comprehensive spectral and temporal properties of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar SMC X-2 using X-ray observations during the 2015 and 2022 outbursts. The pulse profile of the pulsar is unique and strongly luminosity dependent. It…

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We present broadband X-ray observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) pulsar SMC X-2, using concurrent NuSTAR and NICER observations during its 2022 outburst. The source is found to be spinning with a period of 2.37281(3) s. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

We report broadband spectral properties of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar SMC X-2 by using three simultaneous $NuSTAR$ and $Swift$/XRT observations during its 2015 outburst. The pulsar was significantly bright, reaching a luminosity up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik

We report the results provided by the XMM-Newton observation of the X-ray binary pulsar SXP59.0 during its most recent outburst in April 2017. The source was detected at $f_{\rm X}$(0.2-12 keV) = 8$\times 10^{-11}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 N. La Palombara , P. Esposito , F. Pintore , L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , A. Tiengo

Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer All Sky Monitor observations of SMC X-2 show that the source experienced an outburst in January to April 2000 reaching a peak luminosity of greater than ~10^38 ergs s^-1. RXTE Proportional Counter Array…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. H. D. Corbet , F. E. Marshall , M. J. Coe , S. Laycock , G. Handler

The Be X-ray pulsar, SMC X-3 underwent a giant outburst from 2016 August to 2017 March, which was monitored with the Swift satellite. During the outburst, its broadband flux increased dramatically, and the unabsorbed X-ray luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Shan-Shan Weng , Ming-Yu Ge , Hai-Hui Zhao , Wei Wang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Wei-Hao Bian , Qi-Rong Yuan

The Be X-ray pulsar SMC X-3 underwent an extra long and ultraluminous giant outburst from 2016 August to 2017 March. The peak X-ray luminosity is up to $\sim 10^{39}$ erg/s, suggesting a mildly super-Eddington accretion onto the strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-17 Hai-Hui Zhao , Shan-Shan Weng , Ming-Yu Ge , Wei-Hao Bian , Qi-Rong Yuan

We present an extended study of the Be/X-ray pulsar 2S 1553-542 during its Type II outbursts. We have incorporated \emph{NICER, Swift-XRT, RXTE-PCA, \emph{NuSTAR} and FERMI} observations to carry out the detailed phase and time resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Binay Rai , Biswajit Paul , Mohammed Tobrej , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

We report on INTEGRAL, Swift and XMM-Newton observations of IGR J17511-3057 performed during the outburst that occurred between March 23 and April 25, 2015. The source reached a peak flux of 0.7(2)E-9 erg/cm$^2$/s and decayed to quiescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 A. Papitto , E. Bozzo , C. Sanchez-Fernandez , P. Romano , D. F. Torres , C. Ferrigno , J. J. E. Kajava , E. Kuulkers

We study the timing and spectral properties of the X-ray pulsar 2S 1553--542 using the NuSTAR, and NICER during the outburst in January--February 2021. During the outburst, the spin period of the neutron star was 9.2822 s based on NuSTAR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-22 Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal

We present the results of timing and spectral analysis of X-ray high state observations of the high-mass X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 with Chandra, XMM-Newton, and ROSAT, taken between 1991 and 2001. The source has L_X ~ 3-5 x 10^38 ergs/s, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Neilsen , R. C. Hickox , S. D. Vrtilek

We discuss the spectral and timing properties of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508 observed by XMM-Newton, NICER and NuSTAR during the X-ray outburst occurred in April 2018. The spectral properties of the source are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 A. Sanna , F. Pintore , A. Riggio , S. M. Mazzola , E. Bozzo , T. Di Salvo , C. Ferrigno , A. F. Gambino , A. Papitto , R. Iaria , L. Burderi

We report the results of the monitoring campaign of the transient X-ray pulsar SMC X-2 performed with the Swift/XRT telescope over the period of 2015 September - 2016 January during the Type II outburst. During this event, the bolometric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 A. Lutovinov , S. Tsygankov , R. Krivonos , S. Molkov , J. Poutanen

We study the timing and spectral properties of the X-ray pulsar 2S 1417--624 during the recent outburst in January 2021 based on the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observation. We also used some early data from the 2018…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal

SMC X-2 exhibits X-ray outburst behaviour that makes it one of the most luminous X-ray sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In the last decade it has undergone two such massive outbursts - in 2015 and 2022. The first outburst is well…

We study the temporal and spectral characteristics of SMC X-3 during its 2016 outburst. To probe accretion onto highly magnetized neutron stars (NSs), at the Eddington limit. We obtained XMM-Newton observations of SMC X-3 and combined them…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Filippos Koliopanos , Georgios Vasilopoulos

We present a detailed temporal and spectral study of the intermediate type blazar, ON 231 with observations taken by Swift and XMM-Newton satellites during an outburst phase in June 2008. The source shows multiple X-ray flares in that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-06 Nibedita Kalita , Utane Sawangwit

We observed RX J0520.5-6932 in the X-rays and studied the optical light curve of its counterpart to verify it as a Be/X-ray binary. We performed an XMM-Newton anticipated target of opportunity observation in January 2013 during an X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 Georgios Vasilopoulos , Frank Haberl , Richard Sturm , Pierre Maggi , Andrzej Udalski

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
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