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We carried a detailed time and flux resolved X-ray spectral analysis of the high-synchrotron-peaked blazar Mrk\,421 using simultaneous LAXPC20 and SXT observations. The 100\,s binned LAXPC20 light curve obtained during 3--8 January 2017…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Sikandar Akbar , Zahir Shah , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal

This work presents an investigation of the stochastic X-ray variability from the 164 Hz accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17062-6143, based on regular observations collected with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer between 2017…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Peter Bult

We present the first X-ray polarization measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z-source, GX 340$+$0, in the normal branch (NB) using a 200 ks observation with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetric Explorer (IXPE). This…

We present a detailed spectropolarimetric study of the Sco-like Z-source GX 349+2, simultaneously observed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). During the observations GX…

This paper summarises two recently developed techniques in power spectral analysis and their application to a sample of X-ray light curves of accreting collapsed objects in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries. The first technique is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Stella , E. Arlandi , G. Tagliaferri , G. L. Israel

The origin of the large-amplitude, quasi-periodic X-ray flux variations in several classes of the Galactic microquasar GRS~1915+105 remains unresolved. We address this issue through flux-resolved, broadband (0.8-20 keV) spectral modelling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Shree Suman , Shuvajit Khatua , Vishal Jadoliya , Prathamesh Narayan Gupta , Mayukh Pahari

We present results from AstroSat observation of the recent outburst of GRO J2058+42, an X-ray pulsar in a Be-binary system. The source was observed on April 10, 2019 by LAXPC and SXT instruments on AstroSat during its declining phase of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Kallol Mukerjee , H. M. Antia , Tilak Katoch

We have studied the spectro-temporal properties of the neutron star low mass X-ray binary GX 9$+$1 using data from \textit{NuSTAR/FPM} and \textit{AstroSat/SXT} and \textit{LAXPC}. The hardness-intensity diagram of the source showed it to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-03 Neal Titus Thomas , S. B. Gudennavar , S. G. Bubbly

We present the results of timing and spectral analysis of X-ray high state observations of the high-mass X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 with Chandra, XMM-Newton, and ROSAT, taken between 1991 and 2001. The source has L_X ~ 3-5 x 10^38 ergs/s, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Neilsen , R. C. Hickox , S. D. Vrtilek

We present the results of the X-ray flaring activity of 1ES 1959+650 during October 25-26, 2017 using AstroSat observations. The source was variable in the X-ray. We investigated the evolution of the X-ray spectral properties of the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Zahir Shah , Savithri H. Ezhikode , Ranjeev Misra , Rajalakshmi T. R

For the first time, simultaneous broadband spectral and timing study of the atoll source 4U 1705-44 was performed using AstroSat Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) and Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) data (0.8-70 keV). Based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Malu S , K. Sriram , S. Harikrishna , Vivek K. Agrawal

We report the results of a spectral analysis over the range 0.1-200 keV performed on the dipping source X 1822-371 observed by BeppoSAX. We find the best fit to the continuum using a partially covered Comptonization model, due to scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , N. R. Robba

We studied the horizontal branch oscillations (HBO) and the band-limited components observed in the power spectra of the transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701-462 and the persistent "Sco-like" Z source GX 17+2. These two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Qing-cui Bu , Li Chen , Zhao-sheng Li , Jin-lu Qu , T. M. Belloni , Liang Zhang

We study the time variability and spectral evolution of the Black Hole Candidate source XTE J1650-500 using the BeppoSax wide energy range (0.12-200 keV) observations performed during the 2001 X-ray outburst. The source evolves from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Enrico Montanari , Lev Titarchuk , Filippo Frontera

We present the first results of extragalactic black hole X-ray binaries LMC X-1 and LMC X-3 using all the archival and legacy observations by AstroSat during the period of $2016-2020$. Broadband energy spectra ($0.5-20$ keV) of both sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-01 Bhuvana G. R. , Radhika D. , V. K. Agrawal , Samir Mandal , Anuj Nandi

We report the detection of 5 Type-1 thermonuclear X-ray bursts and one burst-like event in the neutron star LMXB source, Cyg X-2 using X-ray data obtained with the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) instrument on board AstroSat.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Jincy Devasia , Gayathri Raman , Biswajit Paul

Neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems depict a variety of X-ray spectral and timing features, which can be useful to probe the accretion-ejection mechanism in the strong gravity regime. Here, we study the relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Vaidehi Poojyam , Vikas Mistry , Yash Bhargava , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Nitinkumar Bijewar

In this paper, we performed a spectro-polarimetric analysis of the transient NS-LMXB XTE J1701-462 using IXPE, NICER, and NuSTAR data during its 2022 outburst. We report the significant detection of energy-dependent polarization in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Kiran M. Jayasurya , Vivek K. Agrawal , Rwitika Chatterjee

Observations of two unclassified Low Mass X-ray Binaries, X1543-624 and X1556-605, are presented. In the 2-10 keV band the first of the two sources is a factor two stronger than the other. Both sources do not show X-ray bursts, dips or…

We present results of a combined investigation of the spectral and kHz QPO evolution around the Z-track in GX 5-1 based on high-quality RXTE data. The Extended ADC emission model provides very good fits to the spectra, the results pointing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. K. Jackson , M. J. Church , M. Balucinska-Church
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