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We present results of a detailed study of X-ray flaring in the Z-track source Sco X-1 in a highly super-Eddington state made using high quality Rossi-XTE data from the PCA and HEXTE instruments. The emission model successfully used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Barnard , M. J. Church , M. Balucinska-Church

We report the first polarimetric results of the neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Z-source GX 17+2 using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and the Very Large Array (VLA). We find that the X-ray source was polarized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Unnati Kashyap , Thomas J. Maccarone , Eliot C. Pattie , Mason Ng , Swati Ravi , Alexandra J. Tetarenko , Pau Bosch Cabot , Herman L. Marshall

Context. In September 2022, the transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701-462 went into a new outburst. Aims. The objective of this work is to examine the evolution of the accretion geometry of XTE J1701-462 by studying the…

The inverse Compton process by which soft photons are up-scattered by hot electrons in a corona plays a fundamental role in shaping the X-ray spectra of black-hole (BH) low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), particularly in the hard and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Federico García , Konstantinos Karpouzas , Mariano Méndez , Liang Zhang , Yuexin Zhang , Tomaso Belloni , Diego Altamirano

The aim of this work is to investigate in a physical and quantitative way the spectral evolution of bright Neutron Star Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (NS LMXBs), with special regard to the transient hard X-ray tails. We analyzed INTEGRAL data for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 L. I. Mainardi , A. Paizis , R. Farinelli , E. Kuulkers , J. Rodriguez , D. Hannikainen , P. Savolainen , S. Piraino , A. Bazzano , A. Santangelo

We performed the first simultaneous NICER & NuSTAR spectral and timing study of the Sco-like Z source GX 17+2. The source traced the full Z track during four observations. We detect signatures of relativistic reflection in the broadband…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-09 Malu Sudha , Renee M. Ludlam , Jeroen Homan , Dacheng Lin , Benjamin Coughenour , Edward M. Cackett

We studied and compared the long-term average hard X-ray (>20keV) spectra of a sample of twelve bright low-mass X-ray binaries hosting a neutron star (NS). Our sample comprises the six well studied Galactic Z sources and six Atoll sources,…

We have analyzed ~600 ks of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z source GX 17+2. A study was performed of the properties of the noise components and quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as a…

We present an analysis of the spectral and timing properties of X-ray emission from the Z-source Sco~X-1 during its evolution between the Horizontal (HB) and Flaring(FB) branches observed with the RXTE during the 1996 -- 2002 period. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Lev Titarchuk , Elena Seifina , Chris Shrader

We report on our investigation of the NuSTAR and AstroSat observations along with simultaneous NICER observations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4$-$3658, obtained during its tenth outburst from 2022. The NuSTAR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Rahul Sharma , Andrea Sanna , Prince Sharma

We analyze the X-ray spectra and their timing properties of the compact X-ray binary 4U~1820-30. We establish a number of spectral transitions in this source seen with BeppoSAX and RXTE. During the RXTE observations (1996 -- 2009), the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Lev Titarchuk , Elena Seifina , Filippo Frontera

We present the temporal analysis of the persistent neutron star low-mass X-ray binary (NS LMXB) GX 13+1 using NICER data. Classification of this source has been ambiguous so far. We investigate the evolution of the source in its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-26 Mohamad Ali Kaddouh , Malu Sudha , Renee M. Ludlam

We report on the coordinated observations of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary (NS-LMXB) \gx in X-rays (IXPE, NICER, Nustar and INTEGRAL), optical (REM and LCO), near-infrared (REM), mid-infrared (VLT VISIR), and radio (ATCA). This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Sergio Fabiani , Fiamma Capitanio , Rosario Iaria , Juri Poutanen , Andrea Gnarini , Francesco Ursini , Ruben Farinelli , Anna Bobrikova , James F. Steiner , Jiri Svoboda , Alessio Anitra , Maria C. Baglio , Francesco Carotenuto , Melania Del Santo , Carlo Ferrigno , Fraser Lewis , David M. Russell , Thomas D. Russell , Jakob van den Eijnden , Massimo Cocchi , Alessandro Di Marco , Fabio La Monaca , Kuan Liu , John Rankin , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Stefano Bianchi , Luciano Burderi , Tiziana Di Salvo , Elise Egron , Giulia Illiano , Philip Kaaret , Giorgio Matt , Romana Mikušincová , Fabio Muleri , Alessandro Papitto , Iván Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolò Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Michela Negro , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane

We report the results of AstroSat observations of Cygnus X-2 during February 2016. The source's power density spectrum generated using LAXPC data revealed the presence of a prominent Quasi-periodic Oscillation (QPO) at $\sim42$ Hz with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Vanzarmawii Chhangte , Jayashree Roy , Ranjeev Misra , Lalthakimi Zadeng

SAX J1748.9-2021 is a transient accretion powered millisecond X-ray pulsar located in the Globular cluster NGC 6440. We report on the spectral and timing analysis of SAX J1748.9-2021 performed on AstroSat data taken during its faint and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Rahul Sharma , Aru Beri , Andrea Sanna , Anjan Dutta

We have performed simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of thirteen Galactic centre low-mass X-ray binaries in 1998 April using the Wide-Field Cameras onboard BeppoSAX and the Australia Telescope Compact Array, the latter simultaneously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. G. H. Berendsen , R. Fender , E. Kuulkers , J. Heise , M. van der Klis

(Abridged) Spectral and time variability analysis of the region of the hard X-ray transient EXS 1737.9-2952 near the Galactic Centre (GC), using data from the Narrow Field Instruments of BeppoSAX is reported. The main results are the MECS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Huovelin , J. Schultz , O. Vilhu , D. Hannikainen , P. Muhli , Ph. Durouchoux

We present the first quick look analysis of data from nine {\it AstroSat}'s LAXPC observations of GRS 1915+105 during March 2016 when the source had the characteristics of being in Radio-quiet $\chi$ class. We find that a simple empirical…

We present an X-ray spectral analysis of the high-mass binary 4U~1700-37 during its hard-soft state evolution. We use the BeppoSAX, Suzaku and RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer), Suzaku and BeppoSAX observations for this investigation. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Elena Seifina , Lev Titarchuk , Nikolai Shaposhnikov

A model for the evolution of low-luminosity radio galaxies is presented. In the model, the lobes inflated by low-power jets are assumed to expand in near pressure-balance against the external medium. Both cases of constant external pressure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Q. Luo , E. M. Sadler