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Among hard X-ray galactic sources detected by INTEGRAL and Swift surveys, those discovered as accreting white dwarfs have surprisingly boosted in number, representing 20% of the galactic sample. The majority are identified as magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 M. Falanga , D. de Martino , F. Bernardini , K. Mukai

The X-ray source 1RXS J180431.1-273932 has been proposed as a new member of the symbiotic X-ray binary (SyXB) class of systems, which are composed of a late-type giant that loses matter to an extremely compact object, most likely a neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 N. Masetti , A. A. Nucita , P. Parisi

IGR J01583+6713 is a new transient source discovered by the INTEGRAL/IBIS hard X-ray surveys. Optical observations suggested that it should be a high mass X-ray binary, but its nature is still unclear. We used the INTEGRAL/IBIS data to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 W. Wang

Swift J1858.6-0814 was discovered by Swift-BAT on October 25, 2018. Here we report on the first follow-up NuSTAR observation of the source, which shows variability spanning two orders of magnitude in count rate on timescales of ~10-100 s.…

We present modeling of the long-term optical light curve and radial velocity curve of the binary stellar system CXOGBS J175553.2-281633, first detected in X-rays in the \textit{Chandra} Galactic Bulge Survey. We analyzed 7 years of optical…

This paper is devoted to determining the nature of the hard X-ray source IGR J17463-2854 located toward the Galactic bulge. Using data from the INTEGRAL and Chandra X-ray observatories, we show that five point X-ray sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 D. I. Karasev , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

IGR J17591-2342 is a recently INTEGRAL discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar that went into outburst around July 21, 2018. To better understand the physics acting in these systems during the outburst episode we performed detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 L. Kuiper , S. S. Tsygankov , M. Falanga , I. A. Mereminskij , D. K. Galloway , J. Poutanen , Z. Li

We present the results of our optical identification of the X-ray source IGR J16547-1916 detected by the INTEGRAL observatory during a deep all-sky survey. Analysis of the spectroscopic data from the SWIFT and INTEGRAL observatories in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Lutovinov , R. Burenin , M. Revnivtsev , V. Suleimanov , A. Tkachenko

Due to observational challenges our knowledge of low-level accretion flows around neutron stars is limited. We present Nustar, Swift and Chandra observations of the low-mass X-ray binary IGR J17062-6143, which has been persistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 N. Degenaar , C. Pinto , J. M. Miller , R. Wijnands , D. Altamirano , F. Paerels , A. C. Fabian , D. Chakrabarty

Results are presented for XMM-Newton observations of five hard X-ray sources discovered by INTEGRAL in the direction of the Scutum Arm. Each source received more than 20 ks of effective exposure time. We provide refined X-ray positions for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Arash Bodaghee , John A. Tomsick , Jerome Rodriguez

We report on Chandra observations of 18 hard X-ray (>20 keV) sources discovered with the INTEGRAL satellite near the Galactic plane. For 14 of the INTEGRAL sources, we have uncovered one or two potential Chandra counterparts per source.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 John A. Tomsick , Arash Bodaghee , Sylvain Chaty , Jerome Rodriguez , Farid Rahoui , Jules Halpern , Emrah Kalemci , Mehtap Ozbey Arabaci

We have investigated multiband optical photometric variability and stability of the H$\alpha$ line profile of the transient X-ray binary IGR J01583+6713. We set an upper limit of 0.05 mag on photometric variations in the {\it V} band over a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramanpreet Kaur , Biswajit Paul , Brijesh Kumar , Ram Sagar

IGR J17407-2808 is an enigmatic and poorly studied X-ray binary that was recently observed quasi-simultaneously with NuSTAR and XMM-Newton. In this paper we report the results of this observational campaign. During the first 60 ks of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 L. Ducci , C. Malacaria , P. Romano , E. Bozzo , M. Berton , A. Santangelo , E. Congiu

IGR J16493-4348 is an eclipsing supergiant high-mass X-ray binary (sgHMXB), where accretion onto the compact object occurs via the radially outflowing stellar wind of its early B-type companion. We present an analysis of the system's X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Aaron B. Pearlman , Joel B. Coley , Robin H. D. Corbet , Katja Pottschmidt

In this study, we report a discovery from XMM-Newton, which involves the identification and subsequent examination of a newly discovered polar-type cataclysmic variable named XMM J152737.4-205305.9. The discovery was made by matching the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Samet Ok , Axel Schwope , David A. H. Buckley , Jaco Brink

We report on the discovery by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17591-2342, detecting coherent X-ray pulsations…

IGR J16493-4348 was one of the first new sources to be detected by the INTEGRAL gamma-ray telescope in the 18-100 keV energy band. Based upon spatial coincidence the source was originally associated with the free radio pulsar PSR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. B. Hill , A. J. Dean , R. Landi , V. A. McBride , A. De Rosa , A. J. Bird , A. Bazzano , V. Sguera

We report on the discovery of J0644+3344, a bright deeply eclipsing cataclysmic variable (CV) binary. Spectral signatures of both binary components and an accretion disk can be seen at optical wavelengths. The optical spectrum shows broad H…

The number of known Be/X-ray binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud is small compared to the observed population of the Galaxy or the Small Magellanic Cloud. The discovery of a system in outburst provides the rare opportunity to measure its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , A. Rau , E. S. Bartlett , X. -L. Zhang , P. Schady , W. Pietsch , J. Greiner , M. J. Coe , A. Udalski

We present the results from analyses of Suzaku observations of the supergiant X-ray binaries IGR J16207-5129 and IGR J17391-3021. For IGR J16207-5129, we provide the first broadband (0.5--60 keV) spectrum from which we confirm a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-16 A. Bodaghee , J. A. Tomsick , J. Rodriguez , S. Chaty , K. Pottschmidt , R. Walter , P. Romano