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We analysed the RXTE archival data of 1E 1048.1-5937 covering a time span of more than one year. The spin down rate of this source decreases by 30 percent during the observation. We could not resolve the X-ray flux variations because of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Baykal , T. Strohmayer , J. Swank , A. Alpar , M. J. Stark

NGC 4631 X-8 is an ultraluminous X-ray pulsar (ULXP) having a spin period of about 9.7 s, discovered using XMM-Newton observations in 2025. The pulsar is known to show one of the largest spin-up rates ($\sim -9.6 \times 10^{-8}$ s s$^{-1}$)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Amar Deo Chandra

We report X-ray imaging, timing, and spectral studies of XTE J1810-197, a 5.54s pulsar discovered by Ibrahim et al. (2003) in recent RXTE observations. In a set of short exposures with the Chandra HRC camera we detect a strongly modulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern , M. Buxton , C. Bailyn

The high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) V0332+53 became active at the end of 2004 and the outburst was observed at hard X-rays by RXTE and INTEGRAL. Based on these hard X-ray observations, the orbital parameters are measured through fitting the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shu Zhang , JinLu Qu , LiMing Song , Diego F. Torres

We have conducted timing observations of the eclipsing millisecond binary pulsar PSR~B1957+20, extending the span of data on this pulsar to more than five years. During this time the orbital period of the system has varied by roughly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Z. Arzoumanian , A. S. Fruchter , J. H. Taylor

MXB 1659-298 is a transient neutron star Low-Mass X-ray binary system that shows eclipses with a periodicity of 7.1 hr. The source went to outburst in August 2015 after 14 years of quiescence. We investigate the orbital properties of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-27 R. Iaria , A. F. Gambino , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , M. Matranga , A. Riggio , A. Sanna , F. Scarano , A. D'Aì

We report on a timing analysis performed on a 62-ks long XMM-Newton observation of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during the latest X-ray outburst that started on September 21, 2008. By connecting the time of arrivals of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-10 L. Burderi , A. Riggio , T. Di Salvo , A. Papitto , M. T. Menna , A. D'Ai' , R. Iaria

We report the orbital X-ray variability of high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) GX301--2. GX301--2 undergone a spin up process in 2018--2020 with the period evolving from $\sim$ 685 s to 670 s. The energy resolved pulse-profiles of the pulsar in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-24 Y. Z. Ding , W. Wang , P. R. Epili , Q. Liu , M. Y. Ge , F. J. Lu , J. L. Qu , L. M. Song , S. Zhang , S. N. Zhang

We analyzed 39 ks NuSTAR observation data of the high mass X-ray binary Cen X-3 in order to investigate the orbital- and spin-phase spectral variability. The observation covers the orbital phase of $\Phi=0.199$-$0.414$ of the source, where…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Atsushi Tanimoto , Hiromasa Suzuki , Satoshi Takashima , Aya Bamba

We present temporal analysis of the three outbursts of the X-ray millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 that occurred in 1998, 2000 and 2002. With a technique that uses the chi^2 obtained with an epoch folding search to discriminate between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Papitto , M. T. Menna , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , F. D' Antona , N. R. Robba

We performed a timing analysis of the 2003 outburst of the accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 observed by RXTE. Using recently refined orbital parameters we report for the first time a precise estimate of the spin frequency…

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

We present the XMM-Newton observations obtained during four revolutions in Spring and Summer 2004 of CXOGC J174540.0-290031, a moderately bright transient X-ray source, located at only 2.9" from SgrA*. We report the discovery of sharp and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Porquet , N. Grosso , G. Belanger , A. Goldwurm , F. Yusef-Zadeh , R. S. Warwick , P. Predehl

The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer has observed five outbursts from the transient 2.5 ms accretion-powered pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during 1998-2008. We present a pulse timing study of the most recent outburst and compare it with the previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 J. M. Hartman , A. Patruno , D. Chakrabarty , C. B. Markwardt , E. H. Morgan , M. van der Klis , R. Wijnands

We report on the detection of X-ray pulsations at 2.1 ms from the known X-ray burster IGR J17379-3747 using XMM-Newton. The coherent signal shows a clear Doppler modulation from which we estimate an orbital period of ~1.9 hours and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 A. Sanna , E. Bozzo , A. Papitto , A. Riggio , C. Ferrigno , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , S. M. Mazzola , N. D'Amico , L. Burderi

The X-ray source 4U 1822-371 is an eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary and X-ray pulsar, hosting a NS that shows periodic pulsations in the X-ray band. The inclination angle of the system is so high that in principle, it should be hard to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 A. Anitra , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , L. Burderi , A. F. Gambino , S. M. Mazzola , A. Marino , A. Sanna , A. Riggio

We perform a timing analysis on RXTE data of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1751-305 observed during the April 2002 outburst. After having corrected for Doppler effects on the pulse phases due to the orbital motion of the source, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Papitto , M. T. Menna , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , A. Riggio

We report on a coherent timing analysis of the 163 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17062-6143. Using data collected with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer and XMM-Newton, we investigated the pulsar evolution over a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Peter Bult , Tod E. Strohmayer , Christian Malacaria , Mason Ng , Zorawar Wadiasingh

We have conducted radio timing observations of the eclipsing millisecond binary pulsar J2051-0827 with the European Pulsar Timing Array network of telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope, spanning over 13 years. The increased data span…

Unique among neutron stars, 1E 1207.4-5209 is an X-ray pulsar with a spin period of 424 ms that contains at least two strong absorption features in its energy spectrum. This neutron star has been identified as a member of the radio-quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter M. Woods , Vyacheslav E. Zavlin , George G. Pavlov

We present the results of a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the Galactic Bulge Survey X-ray source CXOGBS J174954.5-294335 (hereafter, referred to as CX19). CX19 is a long period, eclipsing intermediate polar type cataclysmic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-17 Christopher B. Johnson , M. A. P. Torres , R. I. Hynes , P. G. Jonker , C. Heinke , T. Maccarone , C. T. Britt , D. Steeghs , T. Wevers , Jianfeng Wu