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The X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 shows a superorbital modulation with an unstable cycle length in the X-ray band. We present its timing behaviors, including the spin, orbital, and superorbital modulations, beyond the end of the Rossi X-ray Timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Chin-Ping Hu , Tatehiro Mihara , Mutsumi Sugizaki , Yoshihiro Ueda , Teruaki Enoto

We have performed a timing analysis of all the four X-ray outbursts from the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 observed so far by the PCA on board RXTE. For each of the outbursts we derived the best-fit value of the time of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , A. Riggio , A. Papitto , M. T. Menna

We present 7 eclipse timings of the low mass X-ray binary EXO0748-676 obtained with the USA experiment during 1999-2000 as well as 122 eclipse timings obtained with RXTE during 1996-2000. According to our analysis, the mean orbital period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. T. Wolff , P. Hertz , K. S. Wood , P. S. Ray , R. M. Bandyopadhyay

We present a multi-epoch spectral and timing analysis of the isolated neutron star RBS1223. New XMM-Newton data obtained in January 2004 confirm the spin period to be twice as long as previously thought, P_spin = 10.31 s. The combined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Schwope , V. Hambaryan , F. Haberl , C. Motch

We present a timing analysis of the 2015 outburst of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, using non-simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuStar observations. We estimate the pulsar spin frequency and update the system orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Sanna , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , A. Riggio , F. Pintore , A. F. Gambino , R. Iaria , M. Tailo , F. Scarano , A. Papitto

Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) All-Sky Monitor (ASM) observations of the X-ray binary 2S0114+650 show modulations at periods close to both the optically derived orbital period (11.591 days) and proposed pulse period (~ 2.7 hr). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robin H. D. Corbet , John P. Finley , Andrew G. Peele

The accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed by XMM-Newton on March 22, 2003 after its discovery on February 21, 2003 by RXTE. The source was detected in its bright phase with an observed average count rate of 33.3 cts/s in…

We analyze all X-ray timing data on 1E 1207.4-5209 in supernova remnant PKS 1209-51/52 gathered in 2000-2005, and find a highly stable rotation with P=424.130451(4) ms and period derivative of (9.6 +/- 9.4)E-17 s/s. This refutes previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

Dedicated monitoring of the transient X-ray pulsar XTE J1543-568 during the first year after its discovery has revealed the unambiguous detection of a binary orbit. The orbital period is 75.56+/-0.25 d, and the projected semi-major axis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. J. M. in 't Zand , R. H. D. Corbet , F. E. Marshall

The relativistic double neutron star binary PSR J0737-3039 shows clear evidence of orbital phase-dependent wind-companion interaction, both in radio and X-rays. In this paper we present the results of timing analysis of PSR J0737-3039…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 M. N. Iacolina , A. Pellizzoni , E. Egron , A. Possenti , R. Breton , M. Lyutikov , M. Kramer , M. Burgay , S. E. Motta , A. De Luca , A. Tiengo

We present an X-ray eclipse timing analysis of the transient low mass X-ray binary XTE J1710-281. We report observations of 57 complete X-ray eclipses, made with the proportional counter array detectors aboard the RXTE satellite. Using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Chetana Jain , Biswajit Paul

M51 ULX7 is among a small group of known ultraluminous X-ray pulsars (ULXP). The neutron star powering the source has a spin period of 2.8s, orbits its companion star with a period of 2 days, and a super-orbital period of 38 days is evident…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Murray Brightman , Matteo Bachetti , Hannah Earnshaw , Felix Fürst , Marianne Heida , Gian Luca Israel , Sean Pike , Daniel Stern , Dominic J Walton

We present an update of the orbital ephemeris of the binary X-ray pulsar Her X-1 and determine an improved value for the rate of orbital decay. In addition, we report the first measurement of the orbital eccentricity. We have analyzed pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Staubert , D. Klochkov , J. Wilms

We report on a timing and spectral analysis of a 50-ks NuSTAR observation of IGR J16320-4751 (= AX J1631.9-4752); a high-mass X-ray binary hosting a slowly-rotating neutron star. In this observation from 2015, the spin period was…

The Be/X-ray binary SXP1062 is of especial interest owing to the large spin period of the neutron star, its large spin-down rate, and the association with a supernova remnant constraining its age. This makes the source an important probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , L. M. Oskinova , M. P. E. Schurch , V. Hénault-Brunet , J. S. Gallagher , A. Udalski

We present the timing results of out-of-eclipse observations of Centaurus X-3 spanning half a binary orbit, performed on 12-13 December, 2016 with the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) on-board AstroSat. The pulse profile was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 Parisee Shirke , Suman Bala , Jayashree Roy , Dipankar Bhattacharya

We report on the phase-coherent timing analysis of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17591-2342, using Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) data taken during the outburst of the source between 2018 August 15 and 2018…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 A. Sanna , L. Burderi , K. C. Gendreau , T. Di Salvo , P. S. Ray , A. Riggio , A. F. Gambino , R. Iaria , L. Piga , C. Malacaria , G. K. Jaisawal

We report the discovery of X-ray eclipses in the recently discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar Swift J1749.4-2807. This is the first detection of X-ray eclipses in a system of this type and should enable a precise neutron star mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 C. B. Markwardt , T. E. Strohmayer

X 1822-371 is an eclipsing binary system with a period close to 5.57 hr and an orbital period derivative $\dot{P}_{\rm orb}$ of 1.42(3)$\times 10^{-10}$ s s$^{-1}$. The extremely high value of its $\dot{P}_{\rm orb}$ is compatible with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , A. Anitra , C. Miceli , F. Barra , W. Leone , L. Burderi , A. Sanna , A. Riggio

We have investigated the variability of the binary X-ray pulsar, SMC X-1, in data from several X-ray observatories. We confirm the ~60-day cyclic variation of the X-ray flux in the long-term monitoring data from the RXTE and CGRO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Wojdowski , G. W. Clark , A. M. Levine , J. W. Woo , S. N. Zhang