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We present a comprehensive spectral analysis of the BeXRB GRO J1008-57 over a luminosity range of three orders of magnitude using NuSTAR, Suzaku and RXTE data. We find significant evolution of the spectral parameters with luminosity. In…

Accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) undergo luminous X-ray outbursts during which the spectral and timing behavior of the neutron star can be studied in detail. We analyze a $NuSTAR$ observation of the XRP XTE J1858+034 during its outburst in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 C. Malacaria , P. Kretschmar , K. K. Madsen , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , Joel B. Coley , P. Jenke , A. A. Lutovinov , K. Pottschmidt , S. S. Tsygankov , J. Wilms

We report on optical and RXTE observations of a new high-latitude bursting X-ray transient, XTE J2123-058. We identified the optical counterpart, measured the 5.9573 hr orbital period and constrained the binary inclination and the source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John A. Tomsick , Jules P. Halpern , Jonathan Kemp , Philip Kaaret

The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer has observed five outbursts from the transient 2.5 ms accretion-powered pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during 1998-2008. We present a pulse timing study of the most recent outburst and compare it with the previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-28 J. M. Hartman , A. Patruno , D. Chakrabarty , C. B. Markwardt , E. H. Morgan , M. van der Klis , R. Wijnands

We perform a timing analysis on RXTE data of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1751-305 observed during the April 2002 outburst. After having corrected for Doppler effects on the pulse phases due to the orbital motion of the source, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Papitto , M. T. Menna , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , A. Riggio

IGR J17511-3057 was observed in a new outburst phase starting in February 2025 and lasting at least nine days. We investigated the spectral and temporal properties of IGR J17511-3057, aiming to characterise its current status and highlight…

Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars like IGR J00291+5934 are important because it is possible to test theories of pulsar formation and evolution. They give also the possibility to constrain gravitational wave emission theories and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Alessandro Patruno

Multiwavelength observations are reported here of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar system GRO J1008-57. Over ten years worth of data are gathered together to show that the periodic X-ray outbursts are dependant on both the binary motion and the…

We report the discovery of absorption features in the X-ray spectrum of the transient X-ray pulsar GROJ2058+42. The features are detected around $\sim10$, $\sim20$ and $\sim30$ keV in both NuSTAR observations carried out during the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 S. Molkov , A. Lutovinov , S. Tsygankov , I. Mereminskiy , A. Mushtukov

We studied possible evolution of the rotational period and the magnetic field of the X-ray source RX J0720.4-3125 assuming this source to be an isolated neutron star accreting interstellar medium. Magnetic field of the source is estimated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Yu. Konenkov , S. B. Popov

Dramatic torque reversals between spin up and spin down have been observed in half of the persistent X-ray pulsars monitored by the BATSE all-sky monitor on CGRO. Theoretical models developed to explain early pulsar timing data can explain…

We discuss the spectral and timing properties of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508 observed by XMM-Newton, NICER and NuSTAR during the X-ray outburst occurred in April 2018. The spectral properties of the source are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 A. Sanna , F. Pintore , A. Riggio , S. M. Mazzola , E. Bozzo , T. Di Salvo , C. Ferrigno , A. F. Gambino , A. Papitto , R. Iaria , L. Burderi

We report on a timing and spectral analysis of a 50-ks NuSTAR observation of IGR J16320-4751 (= AX J1631.9-4752); a high-mass X-ray binary hosting a slowly-rotating neutron star. In this observation from 2015, the spin period was…

Estimates of the magnetic field of neutron stars in X-ray pulsars are obtained using the hypothesis of the equilibrium period for disk and wind accretion and also from the BATSE data on timing of X-ray pulsars using the observed maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. B. Popov , V. M. Lipunov

Recent discoveries by the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer indicate that most of the rapidly accreting and weakly magnetic neutron stars in the Galaxy are rotating at spin frequencies greater than 250 Hz. Remarkably, they all rotate in a narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Lars Bildsten

We report on the coherent timing analysis of the 182 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar Swift J1756.9$-$2508 during its 2018 outburst as observed with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Combining our NICER…

We report on the discovery of coherent pulsations at a period of 2.9 ms from the X-ray transient MAXI J0911-655 in the globular cluster NGC 2808. We observed X-ray pulsations at a frequency of $\sim339.97$ Hz in three different observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Sanna , A. Papitto , L. Burderi , E. Bozzo , A. Riggio , T. Di Salvo , C. Ferrigno , N. Rea , R. Iaria

An outburst of the accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 in October-November 2002 was followed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer for more than a month. We demonstrate how the area covered by the hotspot at the neutron star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-20 Askar Ibragimov , Juri Poutanen

The Be X-ray binary GRO J2058+42 recently went through a Type-II outburst during March-April 2019 lasting for about 50 days. This outburst was detected with the operating all sky X-ray monitors like the Fermi-GBM, Swift-BAT and MAXI-GSC.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Sanhita Kabiraj , Biswajit Paul

Frequency glitches have been observed so far only in radio pulsars and anomalous X-ray pulsars. Here we present evidence of a glitch in a neutron star accreting from a Be companion. The transient KS 1947+300 reappeared in 2000 October as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Galloway , E. H. Morgan , A. M. Levine