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We have studied the long-term (1971-2005) behaviour of the 1.24 sec pulse period and the 35 day precession period of Her X-1 and show that both periods vary in a highly correlated way (see also Staubert et al. 1997 and 2000). When the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-23 R. Staubert , S. Schandl , D. Klochkov , J Wilms , K. Postnov , N. Shakura

IGR J0607.4+2205 is a transient Be X-ray binary discovered two decades ago. IGR J0607.4+2205 underwent an outburst in 2023 during which it was observed twice with \textit{NuSTAR}. The main goal of this work is to model the broadband X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-28 Kinjal Roy , Rahul Sharma , Hemanth Manikantan , Biswajit Paul

We present the observations of the pulsar SMC X-1 with the ART-P telescope onboard the Granat observatory. We investigate the variability of the flux from the source on time scales of several tens of days. The intensity variation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Lutovinov , S. S. Tsygankov , S. A. Grebenev , M. N. Pavlinsky , R. A. Sunyaev

We analyze the observations of the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63 with the RXTE and INTEGRAL observatories in a wide X-ray (3-100 keV) energy band during its intense outbursts in 1999 and 2004. The energy of the fundamental harmonic of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov , E. M. Churazov , R. A. Sunyaev

We present spin-resolved X-ray data of the neutron star binary Her X-1 taken using the EPIC detectors on XMM-Newton. The data were taken at three distinct epochs through the 35 day precession period. The energy dependent light curves of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gavin Ramsay , Silvia Zane , Mario Jimenez-Garate , Jan-Willem den Herder , C. Hailey

We have performed an analysis and interpretation of the X-ray light curve of the accreting neutron star Her X-1 obtained with the ASM RXTE over the period 1996 February to 2004 September. The averaged X-ray light curves are constructed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Klochkov , N. Shakura , K. Postnov , R. Staubert , J. Wilms

We present the spectral and temporal analysis of the 2004/2005 outburst of the transient X-ray pulsar V0332+53 as observed with Integral. After the discovery of the third cyclotron line in phase averaged spectra (Kreykenbohm et al 2005,…

The RXTE observed four outbursts of the accreting X-ray binary transient source, GX 304-1 in 2010 and 2011. We present results of detailed 3-100 keV spectral analysis of 69 separate observations, and report a positive correlation between…

The X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 shows a superorbital modulation with an unstable cycle length in the X-ray band. We present its timing behaviors, including the spin, orbital, and superorbital modulations, beyond the end of the Rossi X-ray Timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Chin-Ping Hu , Tatehiro Mihara , Mutsumi Sugizaki , Yoshihiro Ueda , Teruaki Enoto

The X-ray pulsar Her X-1 was observed for more than two orbital cycles near the maximum of the 35 day X-ray intensity cycle by the Narrow Field Instruments on-board the BeppoSAX satellite. We present the first simultaneous measurement of…

Cyclotron resonance scattering features observed in the spectra of some X-ray pulsars show significant changes of the line centroid energy with the pulsar luminosity. Whereas for bright sources above the so called critical luminosity these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-31 Alexander A. Mushtukov , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Alexander V. Serber , Valery F. Suleimanov , Juri Poutanen

We study the behaviour of the cyclotron resonant scattering feature (CRSF) of the high mass X-ray binary Vela X-1 using the long-term hard X-ray monitoring performed by the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on board Swift. High statistics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 V. La Parola , G. Cusumano , A. Segreto , A. D'Aì

We report the results of an analysis of data obtained with the INTEGRAL, Swift and RXTE observatories during the 2010 April and September outbursts of the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431. The temporal and spectral properties of the pulsar in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Tsygankov , R. Krivonos , A. Lutovinov

We investigate the cyclotron resonant scattering features (CRSFs) of the accreting X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 and significantly detect the 29 keV cyclotron line features in the hard X-ray averaged spectroscopy studies based on the recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-29 Qi Liu , Wei Wang , Wen Yang , Xiao Chen , Hanji Wu

RXTE ASM count rates from the X-ray pulsar Her X-1 began falling consistently during the late months of 2003. The source is undergoing another state transition similar to the anomalous low state of 1999. This new event has triggered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Still , P. Boyd

Estimations of magnetic fields of neutron stars, observed as radio and X-ray pulsars, are discussed. It is shown, that theoretical and observational values for different types of radiopulsars are in good correspondence. Radiopulsars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-18 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

Accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) undergo luminous X-ray outbursts during which the luminosity-dependent spectral and timing features of the neutron star's emission can be analyzed in detail, thus shedding light on the accretion regime at…

Context: Monitoring of pulse period variations in accreting binary pulsars is an important tool to study the interaction between the magnetosphere of the neutron star and the accretion disk. While the X-ray flux of the brightest X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Klochkov , R. Staubert , K. Postnov , N. Shakura , A. Santangelo

We present NuSTAR observations of Vela X-1, a persistent, yet highly variable, neutron star high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB). Two observations were taken at similar orbital phases but separated by nearly a year. They show very different 3-79…

A careful analysis of X-ray light curves and pulse profiles of Her X-1 obtained over more than 20 years strongly evidences for free precession of a magnetized neutron star with rotational axis inclined to the orbital plane as a central…