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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…

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The Fermi-LAT collaboration has recently reported that one of their detected sources, namely, 1FGL J1018.6-5856, is a new gamma-ray binary similar to LS 5039. This has prompted efforts to study its multi-frequency behavior. In this report,…

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AX J1845.0-0433 is a transient high-mass X-ray binary discovered by ASCA. The source displays bright and short flares observed recently with INTEGRAL. The transient behaviour and the bright and short flares are studied in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. A. Zurita Heras , R. Walter

The energetic, eclipsing millisecond pulsar J1816+4510 was recently discovered in a low-frequency radio survey with the Green Bank Telescope. With an orbital period of 8.7 hr and minimum companion mass of 0.16 Msun it appears to belong to…

We report the discovery of a bright X-ray transient object, XMMU J174554.4-285456, observed in outburst with XMM-Newton on October 3, 2002,and located at 6.3' from SgrA*, the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center.This object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Porquet , N. Grosso , V. Burwitz , I. L. Andronov , B. Aschenbach , P. Predehl , R. S. Warwick

Using the 3XMM catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources, and the SDSS-DR9 spectroscopic catalogue, we have obtained a new sample of X-ray selected narrow emission line galaxies. The standard optical diagnostic diagram and selection by hard…

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Eclipsing X-ray binaries make an ideal condition to study reprocessed X-rays, as the X-rays detected during eclipse are purely reprocessed while the much brighter primary X-rays are blocked by the companion star. We carried out a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Nafisa Aftab , Biswajit Paul

Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) we performed deep observations to search for radio pulsations in the directions of unidentified Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray sources. We report the discovery of an eclipsing…

Our 5 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of the globular cluster NGC 6652 detected 7 X-ray sources, 3 of which are previously unidentified. This cluster hosts a well-known bright low-mass X-ray binary, source A (or XB 1832-330). Source B shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Coomber , C. O. Heinke , H. N. Cohn , P. M. Lugger , J. E. Grindlay

We present NuSTAR hard X-ray observations of Sh 2-104, a compact HII region containing several young massive stellar clusters (YMSCs). We have detected distinct hard X-ray sources coincident with localized VERITAS TeV emission recently…

We present results from a 34 ks Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the nearby (d=3.1 Mpc) lenticular galaxy NGC 5102, previously shown to have an unusually low X-ray luminosity. We detect eleven X-ray point sources within the the $D_{25}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. P. Kraft , L. A. Nolan , T. J. Ponman , C. Jones , S. Raychaudhury

The low luminosity, X-ray flaring activity, of the sub-class of high mass X-ray binaries called Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, has been investigated using XMM-Newton public observations, taking advantage of the products made publicly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 L. Sidoli , K. A. Postnov , A. Belfiore , M. Marelli , D. Salvetti , R. Salvaterra , A. De Luca , P. Esposito

The detection of coherent X-ray pulsations at ~314 Hz (3.2 ms) classifies MAXI J1957+032 as a fast-rotating, accreting neutron star. We present the temporal and spectral analysis performed using NICER observations collected during the…

We present the results of a spectroscopic study of the Fe K{\alpha} emission of the persistent neutron-star atoll low-mass X-ray binary and type I X-ray burster GX 3+1 with the EPIC-PN on board XMM-Newton. The source shows a flux modulation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Piraino , A. Santangelo , P. Kaaret , B. Mück , A. D'Aì , T. DI Salvo , R. Iaria , N. Robba , L. Burderi , E. Egron

Recent XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the high mass X-ray binary LS 5039 / RX J1826.2-1450 caught the source in a faint X-ray state. In contrast with previous RXTE observations, we fail to detect any evidence of iron line emission.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Martocchia , C. Motch , I. Negueruela

We report on the \nustar{} observation of the Z-type neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Cygnus X--2 performed on 7 January 2015. During this observation, the source exhibited sudden decrease in count rate (dips) and stronger variability in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Aditya S. Mondal , Gulab C. Dewangan , Mayukh Pahari , Biplab Raychaudhuri

Recent observations have led to the discovery of numerous optically selected binaries containing an undetected component with mass consistent with a compact object (neutron star or white dwarf). Using the the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 B. Sbarufatti , F. Coti Zelati , A. Marino , S. Mereghetti , N. Rea , A. Treves

We report the detection of orbital modulation, a model solution, and X-ray properties of a newly discovered contact binary, 2MASS J11201034$-$2201340. We serendipitously found this X-ray point source outside the error ellipse when searching…

We present a multi-wavelength study of the unidentified Fermi object, 3FGL J0212.1+5320. Within the 95% error ellipse, Chandra detects a bright X-ray source (i.e., F(0.5-7keV) = 1.4e-12 erg/cm^2/s), which has a low-mass optical counterpart…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Kwan-Lok Li , Albert K. H. Kong , Xian Hou , Jirong Mao , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Evangelia Tremou

We report the detection of a possible gamma-ray counterpart of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. The analysis of ~6 years of data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi-LAT) within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 E. de Ona Wilhelmi , A. Papitto , J. Li , N. Rea , D. F. Torres , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , A. Riggio , A. Sanna