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Type I X-ray bursts and superbursts from accreting neutron stars illuminate the accretion disk and produce a reflection signal that evolves as the burst fades. Examining the evolution of reflection features in the spectra will give insight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-26 L. Keek , Z. Wolf , D. R. Ballantyne

We present here the results of broadband spectral analysis of low-mass X-ray binary and a black hole candidate 4U 1957+11. The source was observed nine times with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) between 2018 September and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-24 Prince Sharma , Rahul Sharma , Chetana Jain , Gulab C. Dewangan , Anjan Dutta

1RXS J180408.9-342058 is a transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary that exhibited a bright accretion outburst in 2015. We present Nustar, Swift, and Chandra observations obtained around the peak of this outburst. The source was in a…

We present a broad-band X-ray study of the effect of superorbital periods on X-ray spectra and pulse profiles in the neutron star X-ray binaries LMC X-4 and SMC X-1. These two sources display periodic or quasi-periodic variations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 McKinley C. Brumback , Ryan C. Hickox , Felix S. Fürst , Katja Pottschmidt , John A. Tomsick , Jörn Wilms

We present a comprehensive Bayesian spectral analysis of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 during its 2022 outburst, using simultaneous \textit{NICER} and \textit{NuSTAR} observations. Using the traditional frequentist approach, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Debtroy Das , Honghui Liu , Zuobin Zhang , Cosimo Bambi , Jiachen Jiang , Johannes Buchner , Andrea Santangelo , Menglei Zhou

Many techniques for measuring neutron star radii rely on absolute flux measurements in the X-rays. As a result, one of the fundamental uncertainties in these spectroscopic measurements arises from the absolute flux calibrations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Tolga Guver , Feryal Ozel , Herman Marshall , Dimitrios Psaltis , Matteo Guainazzi , Maria Diaz-Trigo

We analyze archival Chandra HRC observations of the ultra luminous accreting pulsar M82-X2 (NuSTAR J095551+6940.8), and determine an upper limit of $< 1.7\times 10^{38}$~erg/s to its luminosity at an epoch at which it was undetected.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-09 Simone Dall'Osso , Rosalba Perna , Alessandro Papitto , Enrico Bozzo , Luigi Stella

We present two observations of the high-mass X-ray binary GX 301-2 with NuSTAR, taken at different orbital phases and different luminosities. We find that the continuum is well described by typical phenomenological models, like a very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 F. Fuerst , S. Falkner , D. Marcu-Cheatham , B. Grefenstette , J. Tomsick , K. Pottschmidt , D. J. Walton , L. Natalucci , P. Kretschmar

We calculate the temperature profiles of (thin) accretion disks around rapidly rotating neutron stars (with low surface magnetic fields), taking into account the full effects of general relativity. We then consider a model for the spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Bhattacharyya , A. V. Thampan , R. Misra , B. Datta

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 13 June 2012, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in the band from 3 -- 79 keV, extending the sensitivity of focusing far beyond…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fiona A. Harrison , William W. Craig , Finn E. Christensen , Charles J. Hailey , Will W. Zhang , Steven E. Boggs , Daniel Stern , W. Rick Cook , Karl Forster , Paolo Giommi , Brian W. Grefenstette , Yunjin Kim , Takao Kitaguchi , Jason E Koglin , Kristin K. Madsen , Peter H. Mao , Hiromasa Miyasaka , Kaya Mori , Matteo Perri , Michael J. Pivovaroff , Simonetta Puccetti , Vikram R. Rana , Niels J. Westergaard , Jason Willis , Andreas Zoglauer , Hongjun An , Matteo Bachetti , Nicolas M. Barriere , Eric C. Bellm , Varun Bhalerao , Nicolai F. Brejnholt , Felix Fuerst , Carl C. Liebe , Craig B. Markwardt , Melania Nynka , Julia K. Vogel , Dominic J. Walton , Daniel R. Wik , David M. Alexander , Lynn R. Cominsky , Ann E. Hornschemeier , Allan Hornstrup , Victoria M. Kaspi , Greg M. Madejski , Giorgio Matt , Silvano Molendi , David M. Smith , John A. Tomsick , Marco Ajello , David R. Ballantyne , Mislav Balokovic , Diddier Barret , Franz E. Bauer , Roger D. Blandford , W. Niel Brandt , Laura W. Brenneman , James Chiang , Deepto Chakrabarty , Jerome Chenevez , Andrea Comastri , Martin Elvis , Andrew C. Fabian , Duncan Farrah , Chris L. Fryer , Eric V. Gotthelf , Jonathan E. Grindlay , David J. Helfand , Roman Krivonos , David L. Meier , Jon M. Miller , Lorenzo Natalucci , Patrick Ogle , Eran O. Ofek , Andrew Ptak , Stephen P. Reynolds , Jand R. Rigby , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Stephen E. Thorsett , Ezequiel Treister , C. Megan Urry

We present the results from coordinated X-ray observations of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5204 X-1 performed by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton in early 2013. These observations provide the first detection of NGC 5204 X-1 above 10 keV,…

We present the first contemporaneous NICER and NuSTAR analysis of the low-mass X-ray binary Serpens X-1 obtained in June 2023, performing broadband X-ray spectral analysis modeling of the reprocessed emission with RELXILLNS from $0.4-30$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-29 H. Hall , R. M. Ludlam , J. M. Miller , A. C. Fabian , J. A. Tomsick , J. Coley , J. A. García , B. M. Coughenour

We present a spectroscopic analysis of XRISM and NuSTAR observations of the black hole X-ray binary GS~1354--64 during its 2026 outburst. A total number of 3.5 million photons are collected by the microcalorimeter Resolve on board XRISM,…

(Abridged) Soft and hard X-ray excesses, compared to the continuum power-law shape between ~2-10 keV, are common features observed in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and are associated with the accretion disc-corona system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 D. Porquet , J. N. Reeves , N. Grosso , V. Braito , A. Lobban

Whether the accretion disc in the X-ray high-mode of transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSP) reaches near the neutron star surface by penetrating the magnetosphere is a crucial question with many implications, including for continuous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Vishal Jadoliya , Mayukh Pahari , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Shaswat Suresh Nair

We present the first spectral analysis of Scorpius X-1 (Sco X-1) using intentional stray light (SL) observations taken by NuSTAR. Unlike focused observations that have high telemetry load when observing bright sources, intentional SL…

Black hole X-ray binaries are ideal environments to study the accretion phenomena in strong gravitational potentials. These systems undergo dramatic accretion state transitions and analysis of the X-ray spectra is used to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Anastasiya Yilmaz , Jiri Svoboda , Victoria Grinberg , Peter G. Boorman , Michal Bursa , Michal Dovciak

We present a spectral and timing analysis of the newly reported Galactic X-ray transient Swift J1658.2-4242 observed by NuSTAR and Swift. The broad-band X-ray continuum is typical of a black hole binary in the bright hard state, with a…

GRS 1716-249 is a stellar-mass black hole in a low-mass X-ray binary that underwent a gaint outburst in 2016/17. In this paper we use simultaneous observations of Insight-HXMT and NuSTAR to determine its basic parameters. The observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-13 S. J. Zhao , L. Tao , Q. Q. Yin , S. N. Zhang , R. C. Ma , P. P. Li , Q. C. Zhao , M. Y. Ge , L. Zhang , J. L. Qu , S. Zhang , X. Ma , Y. Huang , J. Q. Peng , Y. X. Xiao

Irradiation of the accretion disc causes reflection signatures in the observed X-ray spectrum, encoding important information about the disc structure and density. A Type I X-ray burst will strongly irradiate the accretion disc and alter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 J. Speicher , D. R. Ballantyne , P. C. Fragile