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Four neutron star radius measurements have already been obtained by modeling the X-ray pulses of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER). We report here the radius measurement…

Over the past decade it has become apparent that a class of `bursting pulsars' exist with the discovery of PSR J1752+2359 and PSR J1938+2213. In these pulsars, a sharp increase in the emission is observed that then tends to systematically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-10 Andrew Seymour , Duncan Lorimer , Josh Ridley

The ~10^4 y old Vela Pulsar represents the bridge between the young Crab-like and the middle-aged rotation powered pulsars. Its multiwavelength behaviour is due to the superposition of different spectral components. We take advantage of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Manzali , A. De Luca , P. A. Caraveo

One of the primary goals of Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER)-like X-ray missions is to impose stringent constraints on the neutron star equation of state by precisely measuring their masses and radii. NICER has recently…

Recent measurements showed that the period derivative of the 'high-B' radio pulsar PSR J1734-3333 is increasing with time. For neutron stars evolving with fallback disks, this rotational behavior is expected in certain phases of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Caliskan , U. Ertan , M. A. Alpar , J. E. Truemper , N. D. Kylafis

We report the discovery of a young, highly scattered pulsar in a search for highly circularly polarized radio sources as part of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey. In…

We report a 5.4\sigma\ detection of pulsed gamma rays from PSR B1821-24 in the globular cluster M28 using ~44 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data that have been reprocessed with improved instrument calibration constants. We…

We present a detailed investigation of X-ray source contents of eight young open clusters with ages between 4 to 46 Myr using archival X-ray data from XMM-Newton. The probable cluster memberships of the X-ray sources have been established…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Himali Bhatt , J. C. Pandey , K. P. Singh , Ram Sagar , Brijesh Kumar

We observed PSR J0437-4715 with the FUV-MAMA detector of the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (STIS) to measure the pulsar's spectrum and pulsations. For the first time, UV emission from a millisecond pulsar is detected. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Kargaltsev , G. G. Pavlov , R. W. Romani

Context. The nearby middle-aged gamma-ray pulsar J1741-2054 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) have been studied in X-rays, and its bow-shock nebula (BSN) has been investigated in the Balmer lines, but they have never been observed in far…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Vadim Abramkin , George G. Pavlov , Yuriy Shibanov , B. Posselt , Oleg Kargaltsev

The X-ray source eRASSU J065715.3+260428 was identified as a likely thermally emitting isolated neutron star in a search in the SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey. We investigated the nature and evolutionary state of the source through a dedicated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 J. Kurpas , A. M. Pires , A. D. Schwope , Z. C. Pan , Z. L. Zhang , L. Qian , F. Haberl , L. Ji , I. Traulsen

PSR B0943+10 is an old non-recycled pulsar which for decades has been mostly known for its rapid and spontaneous radio mode switching. Recently, Hermsen et al. (2013) discovered correlated changes in the thermal X-ray emission from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Anna V. Bilous

We present new X-ray timing and spectral observations of PSR J1930+1852, the young energetic pulsar at the center of the non-thermal supernova remnant G54.1+0.3. Using data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and Chandra X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Fangjun Lu , Q. Daniel Wang , E. V. Gotthelf , Jinlu Qu

We report the detection of X-ray pulsations from the rotation-powered millisecond-period pulsars PSR J0740+6620 and PSR J1614-2230, two of the most massive neutron stars known, using observations with the Neutron Star Interior Composition…

PSR B0656+14's high energy emission is consistent with that of combined magnetospheric and thermal (surface & polar cap) emission. Uncertainties with the radio-derived distance and X-ray instrumentation sensitivities complicate a definitive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Golden , Andy Shearer , Jerry Edelstein

We describe observations of the 2003 outburst of the hard-spectrum X-ray transient 4U 1901+03 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The outburst was first detected in 2003 February by the All-Sky Monitor, and reached a peak 2.5-25 keV flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Duncan K. Galloway , Zhongxiang Wang , Edward H. Morgan

We report the analysis of the first deep optical observations of three isolated $\gamma$-ray pulsars detected by the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}: the radio-loud PSR\, J0248+6021 and PSR\, J0631+1036, and the radio-quiet PSR\,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 R. P. Mignani , N. Rea , V. Testa , M. Marelli , A. De Luca , M. Pierbattista , A. Shearer , D. F. Torres , E. De Ona Wilhelmi

The source 4U 2206+54 is one of the most enigmatic high-mass X-ray binaries. In spite of intensive searches, X-ray pulsations have not been detected in the time range 0.001-1000 s. A cyclotron line at ~30 keV has been suggested by various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Reig , J. M Torrejon , I. Negueruela , P. Blay , M. Ribo , J. Wilms

We report an X-ray study of the composite supernova remnant G327.1-1.1, with particular emphasis on its thermal emission. By virtue of a combined spatial and spectral analysis, we have been able to model the X-ray emission of the remnant as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Bocchino , R. Bandiera

The radio continuum spectra of pulsars (PSRs) exhibit a wide variety of shapes, that are interpreted as pure and broken power laws, power laws with turnovers or cut-offs, and logarithmic-parabolic profiles. A notable fraction of these have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-24 Mario G. Abadi , Gabriela Castelletti , Namir E. Kassim