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Theoretical and observational support suggests that the spectral evolution of neutron-star LMXBs, including transient hard X-ray tails, may be explained by the interplay between thermal and bulk motion Comptonization. In this framework, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-25 A. Paizis , R. Farinelli , L. I. Mainardi , L. Titarchuk

Using the data from the PCA and HEXTE on board the RXTE satellite, we investigate the evolution of the 3-200 keV spectra of the peculiar low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Cir X-1 along the branches on its hardness-intensity diagram (HID) from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Q. Ding , J. L. Qu , T. P. Li

This study presents an X-ray spectropolarimetric characterisation of the Z-source GX 340+0 during the normal branch (NB) and compares it with that obtained for the horizontal branch (HB), using IXPE, NICER and NuSTAR observations. The…

The timing properties of the Z-type low-mass X-ray binaries provide insights into the emission components involved in producing the unique Z-shaped track in the hardness-intensity diagrams of these sources. In this work, we investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 Mayukh Pahari , Shree Suman , Yash Bhargava , Alexander Weston , Liang Zhang , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Ranjeev Misra , Ian McHardy

Using the data from the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) and the High-Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) on board it Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer for Z source GX 17+2, we investigate the evolution of its PCA spectra and HEXTE spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 G. Q. Ding , C. P. Huang

We used the newly developed thermal plus bulk Comptonization model comptb to investigate the spectral evolution of the neutron star LMXB Cyg X-2 along its Z-track. We selected a single source in order to trace in a quantitative way the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Farinelli , A. Paizis , R. Landi , L. Titarchuk

We report the results of an observation of low mass X-ray binary GX 3+1 with {\it AstroSat}'s Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) and Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) instruments on-board for the first time. We have detected one Type-1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Ankur Nath , Biplob Sarkar , Jayashree Roy , Ranjeev Misra

We report the results of broadband timing and spectral analysis of data from an AstroSat observation of the High Mass X-ray binary LMC X$-$4. The Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) and Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) instruments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Rahul Sharma , Chetana Jain , Ketan Rikame , Biswajit Paul

We report the analysis of simultaneous multi-wavelength data of the high energy peaked blazar RGB J0710+591 from the LAXPC, SXT and UVIT instruments on-board AstroSat. The wide band X-ray spectrum (0.35 -- 30 keV) is modelled as synchrotron…

We report a broadband investigation of the Z-type neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) GX 349+2 using AstroSat and NICER. AstroSat observed the source exhibiting large scale variability in its normal branch (NB) /flaring branch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Unnati Kashyap , Manoneeta Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Biki Ram

We have carried out the first spectro-polarimetric study of the bright NS-LMXB GX 9+9 using IXPE and AstroSat observations. We report a significant detection of polarization of $1.7\pm 0.4\%$ over the $2-8$ keV energy band, with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Rwitika Chatterjee , Vivek K. Agrawal , Kiran M. Jayasurya , Tilak Katoch

Scorpius X-1 is the brightest and first discovered X-ray source in the sky. Studying this source in the low-energy band has been challenging in the past due to its high brightness. However, with the X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timing (XSPECT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 V. P. Shyam Prakash , Vivek K. Agrawal , Rwitika Chatterjee , Radhakrishna Vatedka , Koushal Vadodariya , A. M. Vinodkumar

We report results of a new spectral analysis of two BeppoSAX observations of the Z source GX 17+2. In one of the two observations the source exhibits a powerlaw-like hard (> 30 keV) X-ray tail which was described in a previous work by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Farinelli , L. Titarchuk , F. Frontera

We report on the results from two BeppoSAX observations of the Z source GX 349+2 performed in February 2001 and covering the broad energy range 0.12-200 keV. The light curve obtained from these observations shows a large flaring activity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , N. R. Robba , L. Burderi , L. Stella , F. Frontera , M. van der Klis

We present an explanation of the Z-track phenomenon based on spectral fitting of RXTE observations of GX340+0 using the emission model previously shown to describe the dipping LMXB. In our Z-track model, the soft apex is a quiescent state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. J. Church , G. S. Halai , M. Balucinska-Church

We present the results obtained from the spectral studies of black hole X-ray binary GX~339--4 using \astrosat~ observations during its 2021 outburst. \astrosat~ observed the source in the intermediate state for $\sim600$ ks. The combined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 Arghajit Jana , Debjit Chatterjee , Hsiang-Kuang Chang , Sachindra Naik , Santanu Mondal

We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral study of GRS 1915+105 during its low-flux rebrightening phase using the broadband capabilities of AstroSat and NuSTAR in May-June 2019. The AstroSat light curves revealed erratic X-ray flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Shahzada Akhter , Sajad Boked , Bari Maqbool , Ranjeev Misra , V. Jithesh

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the temporal and spectral variability of the low-energy peaked BL Lac object S5 0716+714 with a long (~74 ks)X-ray observation performed by XMM-Newton on 2007 September 24-25. The source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 You-Hong Zhang

In this work, we performed an energy-dependent study of low-frequency oscillations observed in GX 13+1 using \textit{AstroSat} (Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter and Soft X-ray Telescope). The hardness-intensity diagram (HID) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Arbind Pradhan , Sree Bhattacherjee , Biplob Sarkar

We report the broadband spectro-temporal study of the poorly studied accreting neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 4U 1724-30 using data from Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) and Large Area X-ray Proportional Counters (LAXPC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Unnati Kashyap , Manoneeta Chakraborty , Sudip Bhattacharyya