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We present an X-ray spectro-polarimetric study of the weakly magnetized neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+1, utilizing data from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), alongside simultaneous NuSTAR, NICER, and INTEGRAL…

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

We report on a comprehensive analysis of simultaneous X-ray polarimetric and spectral data of the bright atoll source GX 9+9 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and NuSTAR. The source is significantly polarized in the 4--8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 F. Ursini , R. Farinelli , A. Gnarini , J. Poutanen , S. Bianchi , F. Capitanio , A. Di Marco , S. Fabiani , F. La Monaca , C. Malacaria , G. Matt , R. Mikušincová , M. Cocchi , P. Kaaret , J. J. E. Kajava , M. Pilia , W. Zhang , I. Agudo , L. A. Antonelli , M. Bachetti , L. Baldini , W. H. Baumgartner , R. Bellazzini , S. D. Bongiorno , R. Bonino , A. Brez , N. Bucciantini , S. Castellano , E. Cavazzuti , C. -T. Chen , S. Ciprini , E. Costa , A. De Rosa , E. Del Monte , L. Di Gesu , N. Di Lalla , I. Donnarumma , V. Doroshenko , M. Dovčiak , S. R. Ehlert , T. Enoto , Y. Evangelista , R. Ferrazzoli , J. A. Garcia , S. Gunji , K. Hayashida , J. Heyl , W. Iwakiri , S. G. Jorstad , V. Karas , F. Kislat , T. Kitaguchi , J. J. Kolodziejczak , H. Krawczynski , L. Latronico , I. Liodakis , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , F. Marin , A. Marinucci , A. P. Marscher , H. L. Marshall , F. Massaro , I. Mitsuishi , T. Mizuno , F. Muleri , M. Negro , C. -Y. Ng , S. L. O'Dell , N. Omodei , C. Oppedisano , A. Papitto , G. G. Pavlov , A. L. Peirson , M. Perri , M. Pesce-Rollins , P. -O. Petrucci , M. Pilia , A. Possenti , S. Puccetti , B. D. Ramsey , J. Rankin , A. Ratheesh , O. J. Roberts , R. W. Romani , C. Sgrò , P. Slane , P. Soffitta , G. Spandre , D. A. Swartz , T. Tamagawa , F. Tavecchio , R. Taverna , Y. Tawara , A. F. Tennant , N. E. Thomas , F. Tombesi , A. Trois , S. S. Tsygankov , R. Turolla , J. Vink , M. C. Weisskopf , K. Wu , F. Xie , S. Zane

We report on the \nustar{} observation of the atoll type neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary GX~3+1 performed on 17 October 2017. The source was found in a soft X-ray spectral state with $3-70$keV luminosity of $L_\text{X}\sim3\times…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-17 Aditya S. Mondal , G. C. Dewangan , B. Raychaudhuri

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

Broad emission features of abundant chemical elements, such as Iron, are commonly seen in the X-ray spectra of accreting compact objects and their studies can provide useful information about the geometry of the accretion processes. In this…

Most of the X-ray binary systems containing neutron stars classified as Atoll sources show two different spectral states, called soft and hard. Moreover, a large number of these systems show a reflection component relativistically smeared…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-09 S. M. Mazzola , R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , M. Del Santo , A. Sanna , A. F. Gambino , A. Riggio , A. Segreto , L. Burderi , A. Santangelo , N. D'Amico

In this work, we performed a spectro-temporal investigation of the low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+9 using the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) and Soft X- ray Telescope (SXT) observation on board AstroSat. The source was detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Sree Bhattacherjee , Arbind Pradhan , Biplob Sarkar

We show an analysis of the spectral and timing properties of X-ray radiation from Z-source during its evolutions when the electron temperature of the Transition Layer (TL) kT_e monotonically decreases from 21 to 3 keV. We analyze episodes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Elena Seifina , Lev Titarchuk , Filippo Frontera

We present data from INTEGRAL and BeppoSAX satellites showing spectral state transitions of the neutron-star, atoll-type, low-mass X-ray binary 1705-44. Its energy spectrum can be described as the sum of one or two blackbody components, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mariateresa Fiocchi , Angela Bazzano , Pietro Ubertini , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

We report the results of a BeppoSAX observation of the composite supernova remnant G0.9+0.1, located in the Galactic Center region. This new observation, in which the core of G0.9+0.1 is observed on-axis, confirms our previous results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , G. L. Israel , F. Bocchino

We perform a comprehensive spectral study of a carefully selected sample (total exposure $\sim 50.5$ ks) of NICER observations of the atoll neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1702-429. Our sample encompasses nearly all classical spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-29 Srimanta Banerjee , Jeroen Homan

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

We analysed a dedicated NuSTAR observation of the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary Z-source GX 13+1 to study the timing and spectral properties of the source. From the colour-colour diagram, we conclude that during that observation the…

X-ray observations of the binary pulsar GX 1+4 made using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite between February 1996 and May 1997 were analysed to quantify source spectral variation with luminosity. Mean Proportional Counter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. K. Galloway

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 analyze the X-ray spectra of the atoll 4U~1705-44 when the source undergoes the island-banana state transition. We use the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and BeppoSAX observations for this analysis. We demonstrate that the broad-band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Elena Seifina , Lev Titarchuk , Chris Shrader , Nikolai Shaposhnikov

Context: XB 1916-053 is a low mass X-ray binary system (LMXB) hosting a neutron star (NS) and showing periodic dips. The spectrum of the persistent emission was modeled with a blackbody component having a temperature between 1.31 and 1.67…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 A. F. Gambino , R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , S. M. Mazzola , A. Marino , L. Burderi , A. Riggio , A. Sanna , N. D'Amico

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 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
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