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We report on the results of the multiwavelength campaign carried out after the discovery of the INTEGRAL transient IGR J17329-2731. The optical data collected with the SOAR telescope allowed us to identify the donor star in this system as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-06 E. Bozzo , A. Bahramian , C. Ferrigno , A. Sanna , J. Strader , F. Lewis , D. M. Russell , T. di Salvo , L. Burderi , A. Riggio , A. Papitto , P. Gandhi , P. Romano

We report on the identification of a new soft gamma-ray source, namely IGR J20159+3713/SWIFT J2015.9+3715, first detected by INTEGRAL/IBIS and then confirmed by Swift/BAT. The source, which has an observed 20-100 keV flux in the range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Bassani , R. Landi , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , P. Ubertini

We report on FORS2 spectroscopy aiming at the identification of four Galactic Plane sources discovered by $INTEGRAL$, IGR J18088-2741, IGR J18381-0924, IGR J17164-3803, and IGR J19173+0747, complemented by $XMM$-$Newton$ spectroscopy for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Farid Rahoui , John A. Tomsick , Roman Krivonos

We report on observations of the X-ray pulsar IGR J16320-4751 (a.k.a. AX J1631.9-4752) performed simultaneously with INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton. We refine the source position and identify the most likely infrared counterpart. Our simultaneous…

Here we report on X-ray observations of ten 17-60 keV sources discovered by the INTEGRAL satellite. The primary new information is sub-arcsecond positions obtained by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In six cases (IGR J17040-4305, IGR…

We report on Chandra observations of 18 hard X-ray (>20 keV) sources discovered with the INTEGRAL satellite near the Galactic plane. For 14 of the INTEGRAL sources, we have uncovered one or two potential Chandra counterparts per source.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 John A. Tomsick , Arash Bodaghee , Sylvain Chaty , Jerome Rodriguez , Farid Rahoui , Jules Halpern , Emrah Kalemci , Mehtap Ozbey Arabaci

We present the broadband X-ray study of the BeXRB pulsar IGR J06074+2205 using NuSTAR observations. The temporal and spectral characteristics of the source are investigated. We detect coherent X-ray pulsations of the source and determine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Manoj Ghising , Bikash Chandra Paul

In this study, we report a discovery from XMM-Newton, which involves the identification and subsequent examination of a newly discovered polar-type cataclysmic variable named XMM J152737.4-205305.9. The discovery was made by matching the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Samet Ok , Axel Schwope , David A. H. Buckley , Jaco Brink

We report the results from a detailed analysis of an archival XMM-Newton observation of the X-ray source XGPS-I J183251-100106, which has been suggested as a promising magnetic cataclysmic variable candidate based on its optical properties.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Y. Hui , K. A. Seo , C. P. Hu , L. C. C. Lin , Y. Chou

The remarkable old nova and an intermediate polar (IP) - GK Per was observed with Swift, the Chandra HETG and NuSTAR during its recent dwarf nova (DN) outburst in March - April 2015. Monitoring the outburst, we noticed several processes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-11 Polina Zemko , Marina Orio , Gerardo Juan Manuel Luna , Koji Mukai

The fourth transient accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed during its February/March 2003 outburst by INTEGRAL, partly simultaneously with the XMM-Newton and RXTE satellites. We present here the first study of the 0.5-200…

We report on the NuSTAR observations of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary Swift J174805.3-244637 (hereafter Swift~J17480) and the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR~J17511-3057 performed on March 4, 2023, and April 8, 2015,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 Aditya S. Mondal , Mahasweta Bhattacharya , Mayukh Pahari , Biplab Raychaudhuri , Rohit Ghosh , Gulab C. Dewangan

We report the discovery of a new white dwarf/M dwarf binary, HS1857+5144, identified in the Hamburg Quasar Survey (HQS). Time-resolved optical spectroscopy and photometry were carried out to determine the properties of this new cataclysmic…

We analysed 13 years of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory survey data collected on the High Mass X-ray Binary IGR J18214-1318. Performing the timing analysis we detected a periodic signal of 5.42 d. From the companion star characteristics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 G. Cusumano , A. D'Aì , A. Segreto , V. La Parola , M. Del Santo

Nova LMC 1995, previously detected during 1995-1998 with ROSAT, was observed again as a luminous supersoft X-ray source with XMM-Newton in December of 2000. This nova offers the possibility to observe the spectrum of a hot white dwarf,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marina Orio , Wouter Hartmann , Martin Still , Jochen Greiner

We present the results of 50 hours time-resolved R-band photometry of the ROSAT all-sky survey source 1RXSJ062518.2+733433. The source was identified by Wei et al. (1999) as a cataclysmic variable. Our photometry, performed in 10 nights…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Staude , A. D. Schwope , M. Krumpe , V. Hambaryan , R. Schwarz

We report on a broad-band X-ray study (0.5-60 keV) of the poorly known candidate Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient (SFXT) IGR J18462-0223, and on optical and near-infrared (NIR) followup observations of field objects. The out-of-outburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Sguera , S. P. Drave , L. Sidoli , N. Masetti , R. Landi , A. J. Bird , A. Bazzano

We report on a coherent timing analysis of the 163 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17062-6143. Using data collected with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer and XMM-Newton, we investigated the pulsar evolution over a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Peter Bult , Tod E. Strohmayer , Christian Malacaria , Mason Ng , Zorawar Wadiasingh

The number of known Be/X-ray binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud is small compared to the observed population of the Galaxy or the Small Magellanic Cloud. The discovery of a system in outburst provides the rare opportunity to measure its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , A. Rau , E. S. Bartlett , X. -L. Zhang , P. Schady , W. Pietsch , J. Greiner , M. J. Coe , A. Udalski

We present a catalog of hard X-ray sources in a square-degree region surveyed by NuSTAR in the direction of the Norma spiral arm. This survey has a total exposure time of 1.7 Ms, and typical and maximum exposure depths of 50 ks and 1 Ms,…