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In this paper, we report on the hard X-ray observation of the X-ray pulsar 1E 1145.1-6141 performed with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array mission (NuSTAR). The coherent pulsation of the source with a period of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Manoj Ghising , Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are a class of accreting compact objects with X-ray luminosities above 1e39 erg/s. The ULX population counts several hundreds objects but only a minor fraction is well studied. Here we present a detailed…

We report the discovery of a new candidate ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the nearby edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 891. The source, which has an absorbed flux of F_X ~ 10^-12 erg/s/cm^2 (corresponding to L_X > 10^40 erg/s at 9 Mpc), must…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Edmund J. Hodges-Kluck , Joel N. Bregman , Jon M. Miller , Eric W. Pellegrini

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are non-nuclear X-ray binary systems that exceed the Eddington luminosity for a 10 Msun black hole. The majority of these sources are thought to be stellar-mass compact objects accreting at super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 S. Caserta , C. Pinto , T. Di Salvo , F. Pintore , P. Kosec , F. Barra , D. J. Walton , A. D'Aì , M. Del Santo , A. Gúrpide , A. Fabian , A. Wolter

One hundred fifty-four discrete non-nuclear Ultra-Luminous X-ray (ULX) sources, with intrinsic X-ray luminosities >1e39 ergs/s, are identified in 82 galaxies observed with Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer. Source positions, X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Douglas A. Swartz , Kajal K. Ghosh , Allyn F. Tennant , Kinwah Wu

We report on the results of a NuSTAR observation of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient pulsar IGRJ11215-5952 during the peak of its outburst in June 2017. IGRJ11215-5952 is the only SFXT undergoing strictly periodic outbursts, every 165…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 L. Sidoli , K. Postnov , A. Tiengo , P. Esposito , V. Sguera , A. Paizis , G. A. Rodrıguez Castillo

It is thought that ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are mainly powered by super-Eddington accreting neutron stars or black holes as shown by recent discovery of X-ray pulsations and relativistic winds. This work presents a follow up study…

We report the discovery of a new candidate pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source (PULX) in NGC 5128 (Centaurus A). The candidate, 4XMM J132542.2-425943, is a transient source, identifiable as a clear X-ray point source for $\sim 8$ months in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Amy H. Knight , Timothy P. Roberts , Callum Potter , Alistair T. Pagan , Dominic J. Walton

We report the discovery of eight X-ray sources with periodic variability in 487 ks of observations of the Galactic center with Chandra. The sources are identified from a sample of 285 objects detected with 100-4200 net counts. Their periods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. P. Muno , F. K. Baganoff , M. W. Bautz , W. N. Brandt , G. P. Garmire , G. R. Ricker , ;

We report on a pair of X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) observations of the Supergiant X-ray binary 4U 1909+07, which were performed on 2021 October 3 and 2021 October 8, respectively. We measure the neutron star rotation period in…

We report new detections of the two transient ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in NGC 5128 from an ongoing series of Chandra observations. Both sources have previously been observed Lx (2-3)E39 erg/s, at the lower end of the ULX…

The recent discovery of periodic pulsations from several members of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) family in nearby galaxies as well as in our own galaxy unveiled the nature of the accreting compact object. Neutron stars rather than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-13 Mehmet Hakan Erkut

Winds are an important ingredient in the evolution of X-ray binary (XRB) systems, particularly those at high accretion rates such as ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs), because they may regulate the accretion of matter onto the compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 C. Pinto , S. Caserta , F. Barra , Y. Xu , D. Barret , P. Kosec , N. La Palombara , A. Marino , F. Pintore , A. Riggio , T. P. Roberts , C. Salvaggio , L. Sidoli , R. Soria , D. J. Walton

We have conducted a new long-term multi-wavelength campaign on one of the most super- Eddington narrow-line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) known, namely RX J0134.2-4258. In this first paper, we report deep simultaneous X-ray observations performed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Chichuan Jin , Chris Done , Martin Ward , Francesca Panessa , Bo Liu , Heyang Liu

We present the results of NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the two ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX) NGC 1313 X-1 and X-2. The combined spectral bandpass of the two satellites enables us to produce the first spectrum of X-1 between 0.3…

We report on multiwavelength observations of the supersoft ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in NGC 247 made with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We aligned the X-ray and optical images using three objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Lian Tao , Hua Feng , Philip Kaaret , Fabien Grisé , Jing Jin

We present a new analysis of X-ray spectra of the archetypal ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) Holmberg IX X-1 obtained by the Swift, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observatories. This ULX is a persistent source, with a typical luminosity of ~10^40…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 W. Luangtip , T. P. Roberts , C. Done

We present the results of our study of the X-ray pulsar IGR J21343+4738 based on NuSTAR, Swift, and SRG observations in the wide energy range 0.3 - 79 keV. The absence of absorption features in the energy spectra of the source, both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 A. S. Gorban , S. V. Molkov , A. A. Lutovinov , A. N. Semena

After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target…

The temporal and spectral properties of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs, L>2x10^39 ergs/s) and bright X-ray sources (L>3x10^38 ergs/s) are examined and compared in two extremely different host environments: the old elliptical galaxy NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hua Feng , Philip Kaaret