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We analyze a large collection of RXTE archive data from April 1997 to August 2003 of the bright X-ray source Scorpius X-1 in order to study the broadband spectral evolution of the source for different values of the inferred mass accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D'Aí , P. Zycki , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , G. Lavagetto , N. R. Robba

We report the first detection of evolving Low-Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillation (LFQPO) frequencies in hard X-rays upto $100$ keV with $AstroSat/LAXPC$ during `unusual' outburst phase of Swift J1727.8-1613 in hard-intermediate state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-29 Anuj Nandi , Santabrata Das , Seshadri Majumder , Tilak Katoch , H. M. Antia , Parag Shah

During a BeppoSAX observation of the low-mass X-ray binary dip source XB 1323-619 a total of 10 type I X-ray bursts and parts of 12 intensity dips were observed. During non-bursting, non-dipping intervals, the 1-150 keV BeppoSAX spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Balucinska-Church , M. J. Church , T. Oosterbroek , A. Segreto , R. Morley , A. N. Parmar

We report results of analysis of the ASCA observation of the Low Mass X-ray Binary dipping source XB1916-053 made on 1993, May 2nd. We have shown that the spectra can be well fitted by the same two-component model previously used to give…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. J. Church , T. Dotani , M. Balucinska-Church , K. Mitsuda , T. Takahashi , H. Inoue , K. Yoshida

The broad band optical/UV and X-ray spectra of blazars have been often modeled as synchrotron component arising from a broken power-law distribution of electrons. A broken power-law distribution is expected, since the high energy electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Sitha K. Jagan , S. Sahayanathan , R. Misra , C. D. Ravikumar , K. Jeena

We have performed a detailed study of the broadband spectra of the luminous globular cluster X-ray sources using BeppoSAX. With the exception of X2127+119, located in NGC7078, all the other spectra are well represented by a two component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Sidoli , A. N. Parmar , T. Oosterbroek , L. Stella , F. Verbunt , N. Masetti , D. Dal Fiume

We present here the results of an investigation of the pulse averaged and pulse phase resolved energy spectra of two high luminosity accretion powered X-ray pulsars SMC X-1 and LMC X-4 made with ASCA. The phase averaged energy spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Paul , F. Nagase , T. Endo , T. Dotani , J. Yokogawa , M. Nishiuchi

We present a spectro-timing analysis of the black hole X-ray transient GX 339-4 using simultaneous observations from Astrosat and NICER during the 2021 outburst period. The combined spectrum obtained from NICER, LAXPC, and SXT data is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Hitesh Tanenia , Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

We present the first spectro-polarimetric study of the bright atoll source GX 9+1, using the simultaneous Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), and Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observations. The source was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 V. P. Shyam Prakash , Vivek K. Agrawal , A. M. Vinodkumar

The X-ray telescopes on board BeppoSAX are an optimal set of instruments to observe bright galactic binary pulsars. These sources emit very hard and quite complex X-ray spectra that can be accurately measured with BeppoSAX between 0.1 and…

We present the result from the April 2024 observation of the low-mass X-ray binary GX 13+1 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), together with NICER and Swift-XRT coordinated observations. Two light curve dips were observed;…

We study spectral variability of 11 ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX) using archived XMM-Newton and Chandra observations. We use three models to describe the observed spectra: a power-law, a multi-colour disc (MCD) and a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-20 Jari J. E. Kajava , Juri Poutanen

We analyse five observations of the X-ray binary GX 339-4 by the soft gamma-ray OSSE detector on board CGRO simultaneous with either Ginga or RXTE observations. The source was bright during four of them, with the luminosity of L ~ 10^{37}…

We report results of an extensive analysis of the X-ray nova XTE J1859+226 observed with BeppoSAX and RXTE during its 1999 outburst. We modelled the source spectrum with a multicolour blackbody-like feature plus the generic Comptonization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 R. Farinelli , L. Amati , N. Shaposhnikov , F. Frontera , N. Masetti , E. Palazzi , R. Landi , C. Lombardi , M. Orlandini , C. Brocksopp

We present X-ray observations of the recent outburst of 2022 from the neutron star low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) source 1A 1744-361. Spectral properties of the source have been analyzed using joint NuSTAR and NICER observations. During our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-22 Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

The spectrum of the 0.1-7.0 keV cosmic X-ray background (CXB) at galactic latitudes >|25| degrees has been measured using the BeppoSAX Low-Energy Spectrometer Concentrator (LECS). Above 1 keV the spectrum is consistent with a power-law of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Parmar , M. Guainazzi , T. Oosterbroek , A. Orr , F. Favata , D. Lumb , A. Malizia

We present an analysis of the spectral and timing properties observed in X-rays from neutron star binary GX~3+1. We analyze all observations of this source obtained with the RXTE and BeppoSAX satellites. We find that the X-ray broad-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Elena Seifina , Lev Titarchuk

The powerlaw X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei at moderate to high accretion rates normally appear softer when they brighten, for which the underlying mechanisms are yet unclear. Utilizing XMM-Newton observations and excluding photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-29 Yun-Jing Wu , Jun-Xian Wang , Zhen-Yi Cai , Jia-Lai Kang , Teng Liu , Zheng Cai

We present a detailed spectral and timing analysis of Cygnus X-1 with multi-epoch observations, during $2016$ to $2019$, by SXT and LAXPC on-board AstroSat. We model the spectra in broad energy range of $0.5\!-\!70.0\,\rm{keV}$ to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Ankur Kushwaha , V. K. Agrawal , Anuj Nandi

High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsars (HMXBP), in which the companion star is a source of supersonic stellar wind, provide a laboratory to probe the velocity and density profile of such winds. Here, we have measured the variation of the absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Mukherjee , B. Paul