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XMMSL1 J171900.4-353217 is a very-faint X-ray transient that was discovered in 2010 March when it exhibited an outburst. We report on 7 observations, obtained with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard the Neil Gehrels {\it{Swift}} Observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 O. Ahmed , N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands , M. Armas Padilla

We report the discovery of an eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary at the center of the 3FGL error ellipse of the unassociated Fermi/Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 3FGL J0427.9-6704. Photometry from OGLE and the SMARTS 1.3-m telescope and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 Jay Strader , Kwan-Lok Li , Laura Chomiuk , Craig O. Heinke , Andrzej Udalski , Mark Peacock , Laura Shishkovsky , Evangelia Tremou

We report on the detection of X-ray pulsations at 2.1 ms from the known X-ray burster IGR J17379-3747 using XMM-Newton. The coherent signal shows a clear Doppler modulation from which we estimate an orbital period of ~1.9 hours and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 A. Sanna , E. Bozzo , A. Papitto , A. Riggio , C. Ferrigno , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , S. M. Mazzola , N. D'Amico , L. Burderi

AX J1745.6-2901 is a high-inclination (eclipsing) transient neutron star (NS) Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB) showcasing intense ionised Fe K absorption. We present here the analysis of 11 XMM-Newton and 15 NuSTAR new data-sets (obtained…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 G. Ponti , S. Bianchi , T. Munos-Darias , K. Mori , K. De , A. Rau , B. De Marco , C. Hailey , J. Tomsick , K. K. Madsen , M. Clavel , F. Rahoui , D. V. Lal , S. Roy , D. Stern

We report on a Chandra grating observation of the recently discovered hard X-ray transient IGR J17497-2821. The observation took place about two weeks after the source discovery at a flux level of about 20 mCrab in the 0.8-8 keV range. We…

The X-ray source IGR J16318-4848 was the first source discovered by INTEGRAL on 2003, January 29. The high energy spectrum exhibits such a high column density that the source is undetectable in X-rays below 2 keV. On 2003, February, 23--25…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Chaty , Philippe Filliatre

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

We report the first hard X-ray (3-79 keV) observations of the millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary PSR J1023+0038 using NuSTAR. This system has been shown transiting between a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) state and a rotation-powered MSP state.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 K. L. Li , A. K. H. Kong , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , P. H. T. Tam , C. Y. Hui , Ruolan Jin

XTEJ1743-363 is a poorly known hard X-ray transient, that displays short and intense flares similar to those observed from Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients. The probable optical counterpart shows spectral properties similar to those of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Bozzo , P. Romano , C. Ferrigno , S. Campana , M. Falanga , G. Israel , R. Walter , L. Stella

We investigate the X-ray variability of the supergiant X-ray binary 4U 1907+09 using the new NuSTAR observation of 2024. The source had a relatively stable flux level during previous NuSTAR observations, but the flux varied significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Raj Kumar , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Subir Bhattacharyya

We present an analysis of a 37-ks observation of the supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) IGR J17391-3021 (=XTE J1739-302) gathered with Suzaku. The source evolved from quiescence to a low-activity level culminating in three weak flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Bodaghee , J. A. Tomsick , J. Rodriguez , S. Chaty , K. Pottschmidt , R. Walter , P. Romano

We report on observations of the neutron star (NS) residing in the low-mass X-ray binary 1RXS J180408.9-34205 taken 2015 March by $\emph{NuSTAR}$ and $\emph{XMM-Newton}$ while the source was in the hard spectral state. We find multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 R. M. Ludlam , J. M. Miller , E. M. Cackett , A. C. Fabian , M. Bachetti , M. L. Parker , J. A. Tomsick , D. Barret , L. Natalucci , V. Rana , F. A. Harrison

We report new simultaneous X-ray and radio continuum observations of 3FGL J0427.9-6704, a candidate member of the enigmatic class of transitional millisecond pulsars. These XMM-Newton and Australia Telescope Compact Array observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Kwan-Lok Li , Jay Strader , James C. A. Miller-Jones , Craig O. Heinke , Laura Chomiuk

The nature of very faint X-ray transients (VFXTs) - transient X-ray sources that peak at luminosities $L_X\lesssim10^{36} {\rm erg s^{-1}}$ - is poorly understood. The faint and often short-lived outbursts make characterising VFXTs and…

IGR J16318-4848 is the prototype and one of the more extreme examples of the new class of highly obscured Galactic X-ray sources discovered by INTEGRAL. A monitoring campaign on this source has been carried out by XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL,…

To gain a better understanding of high-energy Galactic sources, we observed the Galactic X-ray binary and black hole candidate XTE J1720-318 in the optical and near-infrared, just after the onset of its X-ray outburst in January, 2003.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sylvain Chaty

We report on the deep observations of the "bursting pulsar" GRO J1744-28, which were performed with XMM-Newton and aimed to clarify the origin of its X-ray emission in quiescence. We detect the source at a luminosity level of $\sim10^{34}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-29 Victor Doroshenko , Valery Suleimanov , Sergey Tsygankov , Juhani Mönkkönen , Long Ji , Andrea Santangelo

The eROSITA instrument on board Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma has completed four scans of the X-ray sky, leading to the detection of almost one million X-ray sources in eRASS1 only, including multiple new X-ray binary candidates. We report on…

We report on the results of an EPIC XMM-Newton observation of the faint source SAXJ1748.2-2808 and the surrounding field. This source was discovered during the BeppoSAX Galactic center survey performed in 1997-1998. A spatial analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , F. Favata , T. Oosterbroek , A. N. Parmar

We report on the first focused hard X-ray view of the absorbed supergiant system IGRJ18027-2016 performed with the NuSTAR observatory. The pulsations are clearly detected with a period of $P_{spin}=139.866(1)$ s and a pulse fraction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 A. Lutovinov , S. Tsygankov , K. Postnov , R. Krivonos , S. Molkov , J. Tomsick