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Type-I X-ray bursts are thermonuclear explosions caused by the unstable burning of accreted material on the surface of neutron stars. We report the detection of seven type-I X-ray bursts from the ultracompact X-ray binary M15 X-2 observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 María Alejandra Díaz Teodori , Jari J. E. Kajava , Celia Sánchez-Fernández , Andrea Sanna , Mason Ng , Juri Poutanen

The millisecond pulsar MAXI J1816-195 was recently discovered in an outburst by MAXI in 2022 May. We study different properties of the pulsar using data from NuSTAR and NICER observations. The unstable burning of accreted material on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal , Jaiverdhan Chauhan , Anne Lohfink , Priya Bharali

Swift J1749.4-2807 is the only known eclipsing accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar. In this paper, we report on 7 thermonuclear (Type-I) X-ray bursts observed by NICER during its 2021 outburst. The first 6 bursts show slow rises and long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 A. C. Albayati , P. Bult , D. Altamirano , J. Chenevez , S. Guillot , T. Güver , G. K. Jaisawal , C. Malacaria , G. C. Mancuso , A. Marino , M. Ng , A. Sanna , T. E. Strohmayer

We report the discovery of Type I (thermonuclear) X-ray bursts from the transient source XMMU J181227.8-181234 = XTE J1812-182. We found 7 X-ray bursts in Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations during the 2008 outburst, confirming the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-01 A. J. Goodwin , D. K. Galloway , J. J. M. in 't Zand , E. Kuulkers , A. Bilous , L. Keek

Swift J1858.6-0814 is a recently discovered X-ray binary notable for extremely strong variability (by factors $>100$ in soft X-rays) in its discovery state. We present the detection of five thermonuclear (Type I) X-ray bursts from Swift…

We report on a thermonuclear (type-I) X-ray burst that was detected from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary SAX J1810.8-2609 in 2007 with Swift. This event was longer (~20 min) and more energetic (a radiated energy of Eb~6.5E39 erg)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands

MAXI J1807+132 is an X-ray transient discovered during the decay of an outburst in 2017. We present optical and X-ray monitoring of the source over more than 125 days, from outburst to quiescence. The outburst decay is characterized by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 F. Jiménez-Ibarra , T. Muñoz-Darias , M. Armas Padilla , D. M. Russell , J. Casares , M. A. P. Torres , D. Mata Sánchez , P. G. Jonker , F. Lewis

Monitor of All sky X-ray Image (MAXI) discovered a new outburst of an X-ray transient source named MAXI J1421-613. Because of the detection of three X-ray bursts from the source, it was identified as a neutron star low-mass X-ray binary.…

MAXI J1816-195 is a newly discovered accreting millisecond pulsar with prolific thermonuclear bursts, detected during its outburst in 2022 June by Insight-HXMT and NICER. During the outburst, Insight-HXMT detected 73 bursts in its peak and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Yu-Peng Chen , Shu Zhang , Long Ji , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Peng-Ju Wang , Ling-Da Kong , Zhi Chang , Jing-Qiang Peng , Qing-Cang Shui , Jian Li , Lian Tao , Ming-Yu Ge , Jin-Lu Qu

The neutron-star X-ray transient XTE J1701-462 was observed for $\sim$3 Ms with \xte during its 2006-2007 outburst. Here we report on the discovery of three type-I X-ray bursts from XTE J1701-462. They occurred as the source was in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-25 Dacheng Lin , Diego Altamirano , Jeroen Homan , Ronald A. Remillard , Rudy Wijnands , Tomaso Belloni

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has extensively monitored the August 2019 outburst of the 401 Hz millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. In this Letter, we report on the detection of a bright helium-fueled Type I…

Several phenomenological aspects of low-luminosity neutron star transients, such as atolls, remain poorly understood. One such source, MAXI J1807+132, entered its latest outburst in July 2023. To thoroughly characterize this outburst, we…

Type-I X-ray bursts observed from neutron stars originate from intermittent unstable thermonuclear burning of accreted matter on these stars. Such bursts, particularly those reaching the Eddington luminosity and having a temporary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Sudip Bhattacharyya , Akshay Singh , Andrea Sanna

An uncatalogued bright X-ray transient was detected with MAXI on November 9, 2024, named MAXI J1752$-$457. The NinjaSat X-ray observatory promptly observed the source from November 10 to 18 while the small angular separation from the Sun…

Type-I X-ray bursts are thermonuclear explosions occurring in the surface layers of accreting neutron stars. These events are powerful probes of the physics of neutron stars and their surrounding accretion flow. We analyze a very energetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Degenaar , J. M. Miller , R. Wijnands , D. Altamirano , A. C. Fabian

We report the first-time detection of a type-I X-ray burst from a position that is consistent with that of 1RXS J171824.2-402934. The detection was made on Sep 23, 1996, with the Wide Field Cameras on board the BeppoSAX satellite. The burst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Kaptein , J. J. M. in 't Zand , E. Kuulkers , F. Verbunt , J. Heise , R. Cornelisse

We perform time-resolved spectroscopy of all the type I bursts from the Rapid Burster (MXB 1730-335) detected with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. Type I bursts are detected at high accretion rates, up to \sim 45% of the Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-14 T. Bagnoli , J. J. M. in 't Zand , D. K. Galloway , A. L. Watts

The source GS~1826-24 is a neutron star low mass X-ray binary known as the 'clocked burster' because of its extremely regular bursting behavior. We report on the detection of a long type-I X-ray burst from this source. We perform a detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 Aditya S. Mondal , Mayukh Pahari , Gulab C. Dewangan

MAXI J1957+032 is an accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar that shows brief, recurrent outbursts in an ultra-compact ~1 h orbit. We characterise the 2025 outburst using X-ray timing and spectroscopy from XMM-Newton and Swift (and a late-time…

Two outbursts were observed by RXTE in the history of the atoll source IGR J17473-2721. During the most recent outburst in 2008, the source showed a complete series of spectral states/transitions. The neutron star system was prolific in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Yu-Peng Chen , Shu Zhang , Diego F. Torres , Jian-Min Wang , Ti-Pei Li
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