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X-ray binary accretion disk winds can carry away a significant fraction of the matter transferred from the companion and hence strongly affect the accretion flow and the long-term evolution of the binary. However, accurate mass outflow rate…

We report evidence for an Fe K-alpha fluorescence line feature and disk reflection in the Very High, High, and Low State X-ray spectra of the galactic microquasar XTE J1748-288 during its June~1998 outburst. Spectral analyses are made on…

We report on the evolution of the X-ray emission of the accreting neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB), MXB 1659-298, during its most recent outburst in 2015-2017. We detected 60 absorption lines during the soft state (of which 21…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 G. Ponti , S. Bianchi , B. De Marco , A. Bahramian , N. Degenaar , C. O. Heinke

We report the results of XMM-Newton observations of HD49798/RXJ0648.0-4418, the only known X-ray binary consisting of a hot sub-dwarf and a white dwarf. The white dwarf rotates very rapidly (P=13.2 s) and has a dynamically measured mass of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Mereghetti , N. La Palombara , A. Tiengo , F. Pizzolato , P. Esposito , P. A. Woudt , G. L. Israel , L. Stella

A number of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries have recently been discovered to show broad, asymmetric Fe K emission lines in their X-ray spectra. These lines are generally thought to be the most prominent part of a reflection spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. M. Cackett , J. M. Miller , D. R. Ballantyne , D. Barret , S. Bhattacharyya , M. Boutelier , M. C. Miller , T. E. Strohmayer , R. Wijnands

We report on a thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray burst that was detected from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary SAX J1810.8-2609 in 2007 with Swift. This event was longer (~20 min) and more energetic (a radiated energy of Eb~6.5E39 erg)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands

HD49798/RX J0648.0-4418 is a peculiar binary including a hot subdwarf of O spectral type and a compact companion in a 1.55 day orbit. According to the steady spin period derivative $\dot{P}=(-2.17\pm0.01)\times10^{-15} ~\rm s\,s^{-1}$ , the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-29 Wen-Cong Chen

Soft X-ray transients are a subclass of the low mass X-ray binaries that occasionally show a sudden rise in their soft X-ray luminosity; otherwise, they remain in an extremely faint state. We investigate the accretion properties of the soft…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-29 Debjit Chatterjee , Arghajit Jana , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

Accretion at super-Eddington rates is expected to be accompanied by strong outflows. Such outflows are observed in Galactic X-ray binaries and extragalactic Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs). However, due to their large source distances,…

4U 1700-37 is a wind-fed high-mass X-ray binary hosting a compact object, likely a neutron star, accreting from O6.5 Iaf+ supergiant HD 153919. Coherent pulsations not firmly detected; magnetic field strength remains uncertain. We analyze…

We present the first detection of X-ray coherent pulsations from the transitional millisecond pulsar XSS J12270-4859, while it was in a sub-luminous accretion disk state characterized by a 0.5-10 keV luminosity of 5E33 erg/s (assuming a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-24 A. Papitto , D. de Martino , T. M. Belloni , M. Burgay , A. Pellizzoni , A. Possenti , D. F. Torres

The aim of this paper is to investigate the transition of a strongly magnetized neutron star into the accretion regime with very low accretion rate. For this purpose we monitored the Be-transient X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 throughout a full…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Mushtukov , V. F. Suleimanov , V. Doroshenko , P. K. Abolmasov , A. A. Lutovinov , J. Poutanen

Low-mass X-ray binaries with a neutron star as the primary object show a complex array of phenomenology during outbursts. The observed variability in X-ray emission primarily arises from changes in the innermost regions of the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 Sandeep K. Rout , Teo Munoz-Darias , Jeroen Homan , Montserrat Armas Padilla , David M. Russell , Kevin Alabarta , Payaswini Saikia

We present our analysis of MAXI J1813-095 during its hard state ``stalled'' outburst in 2018. This self-consistent analysis has been carried out using \NICER, \Swift, \Chandra, and {\NuSTAR} throughout seven observations of MAXI J1813-095.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Santiago Ubach , James F. Steiner , Jiachen Jiang , Javier Garcia , Riley M. T. Connors , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Ye Feng , John A. Tomsick

We present HST, RXTE, and UKIRT observations of the broad band spectra of the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1859+226 during the decline from its 1999-2000 outburst. Our UV spectra define the 2175A interstellar absorption feature very well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. I. Hynes , C. A. Haswell , S. Chaty , C. R. Shrader , W. Cui

We present optical photometry of XTE J2123-058 during its quiescent state taken in 1999 and 2000. The dominant feature of our R-band light curve is the ellipsoidal modulation of the secondary star, however, in order to fit this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Shahbaz , C. Zurita , J. Casares , G. Dubus , P. A. Charles , R. Mark Wagner , E. Ryan

XMMSL1 J171900.4-353217 is a very-faint X-ray transient that was discovered in 2010 March when it exhibited an outburst. We report on 7 observations, obtained with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard the Neil Gehrels {\it{Swift}} Observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 O. Ahmed , N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands , M. Armas Padilla

Swift J1727.8$-$1613 is a newly discovered transient low-mass X-ray binary harbouring a stellar-mass ($\sim 10M_\odot$) black hole. We present state-resolved VLT/X-Shooter optical spectroscopy of its 2023 outburst, sampling the luminous…

We present a study of the accretion flow to the intermittent accreting millisecond pulsar, HETE J1900.1-2455, based on observations performed simultaneously by XMM-Newton and RXTE. The 0.33-50 keV spectrum is described by the sum of a hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Papitto , A. D'Aì , T. Di Salvo , E. Egron , E. Bozzo , L. Burderi , R. Iaria , A. Riggio , M. T. Menna

We report on analysis of observations of the bright transient X-ray pulsar \src obtained during its 2017-2018 giant outburst with Insight-HXMT, \emph{NuSTAR}, and \textit{Swift} observatories. We focus on the discovery of a sharp state…