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The detection of 1.37$\, $s pulsations from NuSTAR J095551+6940.8 implies the existence of an accreting pulsar, which challenges the conventional understanding of ultraluminous X-ray source. This kind of sources are proposed to be massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-04 Yanjun Guo , Hao Tong , Renxin Xu

A fraction of the Ultra Luminous X-ray (ULX) sources are known to be accreting neutron stars as they show coherent X-ray pulsations with pulse periods ranging from ~1-30 seconds. While initially thought to host intermediate-mass black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Manish Kumar , Rahul Sharma , Biswajit Paul , Vikram Rana

Based on XMM-Newton EPIC data of four pointings towards the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), results on timing and spectral analyses of 16 known high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) and HMXB candidates in the SMC are presented. We confirm the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manami Sasaki , Wolfgang Pietsch , Frank Haberl

Thanks to a recent observation with XMM-Newton, we discovered periodic pulsations at P= 9.6652 +/- 0.0002 s in a new ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the galaxy NGC 4631. This source, dubbed as X-8, shows one of the largest spin-up rates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 L. Ducci , S. Mereghetti , F. Pintore , S. Allak , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , P. Kavanagh

{\it NuSTAR} has detected pulsations from the ultraluminous X-ray source X-2 in M82 and archival {\it Chandra} observations have given us a good idea of its duty cycle. The newly discovered pulsar exhibited at least 4 super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-24 D. M. Christodoulou , D. Kazanas , S. G. T. Laycock

Many X-ray binaries are transiently accreting. Having statistics on their recurrence times is helpful to address questions related to binary evolution and populations, as well as the physics of binary systems. We compile a catalog of known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 Craig O. Heinke , Junwen Zheng , Thomas J. Maccarone , Nathalie Degenaar , Arash Bahramian , Gregory R. Sivakoff , Simrat Toor

We report the detection of coherent pulsations from the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 7793 P13. The ~0.42s nearly sinusoidal pulsations were initially discovered in broadband X-ray observations using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR taken in 2016. We…

We present results of the analysis of super-Eddington flares registered from the X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 by the NuSTAR observatory in the broad energy range 3-79 keV. The pulsar spectrum is well described by the thermal comptonization model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 A. E. Shtykovsky , V. A. Arefiev , A. A. Lutovinov , S. V. Molkov

The mechanism that can be responsible for the bimodal luminosity distribution of super-Eddington X-ray pulsars in binary systems is pointed out. The transition from the high to low state of these objects is explained by accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-30 S. A. Grebenev

After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target…

We study the timing and spectral properties of the X-ray pulsar 2S 1553--542 using the NuSTAR, and NICER during the outburst in January--February 2021. During the outburst, the spin period of the neutron star was 9.2822 s based on NuSTAR…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-22 Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal

We present a source catalog from the first deep hard X-ray ($E>10$ keV) survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the NuSTAR Legacy Survey of the SMC. We observed three fields, for a total exposure time of 1 Ms, along the bar of this…

Be X-ray binaries (BeXRBs) may show strong X-ray and optical variability, and can exhibit some of the brightest outbursts that break through the Eddington limit. Major X-ray outbursts are often accompanied by strong optical flares that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 G. Vasilopoulos

To date, over 4000 pulsars have been detected. In this study, we identify 231 X-ray counterparts of Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) pulsars by performing a spatial cross match across the Chandra, XMM-Newton observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-01 Yu-Jing Xu , Han-Long Peng , Shan-Shan Weng , Xiao Zhang , Ming-Yu Ge

We explored the expected properties of the neutrino emission from accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries using numerical simulations. The simulations are based on a model in which neutrinos are produced by the decay of charged pions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 L. Ducci , E. Perinati , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , M. Nikołajuk , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki

The origin and radiation mechanisms of high energy emissions from pulsars have remained mysterious since their discovery. Here we report, based on a sample of 68 pulsars, observational connection of non-thermal X-ray emissions from pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Jr-Yue Hsiang , Che-Yen Chu , Yun-Hsin Chung , Tze-Hsiang Su , Tzu-Hsuan Lin , Chien-You Huang

Two \textit{NuSTAR} observations of the luminous X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 in October and November 2015 captured several bright accretion flares from this source, which has a long history of stable pulse and superorbital behavior. We present a…

We compare the peak optical luminosity with the orbital period for a sample of 22 stellar-mass black hole candidates with good measurements of both quantities. We find that the peak absolute magnitude for the outbursts follows a linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Victoria A. Blackmon , Thomas J. Maccarone

Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the present universe and the combination of extreme magnetic field, gravity and density makes them unique laboratories to probe current physical theories (from quantum electrodynamics to general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 Roberto Turolla , Silvia Zane , Anna Watts

The discovery of pulsating ultra-luminous X-ray sources (PULX) suggests that neutron stars are presumably common within the ultra-luminous X-ray source (ULX) population though the majority of the population members are currently lacking…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 M. H. Erkut , M. M. Türkoğlu , K. Y. Ekşi , M. A. Alpar