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X-ray observations play a crucial role in understanding the emission mechanism and relevant physical phenomena of magnetars. We report X-ray observations of a young magnetar SGR 1900+14 made in 2016, which is famous for a giant flare in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Tsubasa Tamba , Aya Bamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Teruaki Enoto

We present a comprehensive analysis of X-ray pulsar 4U 1626-67 during its current spin-down (2SD) state, following a recent torque reversal. Since its discovery, this ultra-compact binary has experienced multiple torque states,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Rahul Sharma , Chetana Jain , Biswajit Paul

We report X-ray observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) pulsar 4U 1907+09. Spectral and Timing analysis of the source has been performed using NuSTAR observation. Timing analysis of the photon events revealed the coherent X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-14 Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

A search of the hard X-ray archive data of NuSTAR found a transient source, NuSTAR J230059+5857.4, during an observation of 1E 2259+586 on 2013 April 25. A multi-wavelength analysis using X-ray, optical, and IR data, mostly taken in its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Tomohiro Hakamata , Hironori Matsumoto , Hirokazu Odaka , Shinsuke Takasao

We report broadband spectral properties of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar SMC X-2 by using three simultaneous $NuSTAR$ and $Swift$/XRT observations during its 2015 outburst. The pulsar was significantly bright, reaching a luminosity up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik

4U 1954+319 was discovered 25 years ago, but only recently has a clear picture of its nature begun to emerge. We present for the first time a broad-band spectrum of the source and a detailed timing study using more than one year of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Mattana , D. Gotz , M. Falanga , F. Senziani , A. De Luca , P. Esposito , P. A. Caraveo

OAO 1657-415 is an accreting X-ray pulsar with a high mass companion that has been observed by several telescopes over the years, in different orbital phases. Back in 1999, observations performed with Beppo-SAX lead to the detection of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 Enzo A. Saavedra , Federico A. Fogantini , Jorge A. Combi , Federico García , Sylvain Chaty

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 the discovery of burst oscillations at 414.7 Hz during a thermonuclear X-ray burst from the low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 4U 0614+091 with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard SWIFT. In a search of the BAT archive, we found two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Tod Strohmayer , Craig Markwardt , Erik Kuulkers

In 2015 October, the Be/X-ray binary 4U 0115+63 underwent a type II outburst, reaching an X-ray luminosity of $\sim$ {\DP{38}\es}. During the outburst, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ({\it NuSTAR}) performed two Target of Opportunity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Bai-Sheng Liu , Lian Tao , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Xiang-Dong Li , Ming-Yu Ge , Jin-Lu Qu , Li-Ming Song , Long Ji , Shu Zhang , Andrea Santangelo , Ling-Jun Wang

We present the results obtained from a comprehensive timing and spectral study of two high-mass X-ray binary sources using NuSTAR observations. These two sources, IGR J16320-4751 and IGR J16479-4514, were discovered by INTEGRAL and have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-05 Varun , Gayathri Raman

We present the first joint NuSTAR and NICER observations of the ultra-compact X-ray binary (UCXB) 4U 0614+091. This source shows quasi-periodic flux variations on the timescale of ~days. We use reflection modeling techniques to study…

We report on a simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift observation of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34. We identified and removed four Type I X-ray bursts during the observation in order to study the persistent emission. The…

4U 0614+09 is a low-mass X-ray binary with a weakly magnetized neutron star primary. It shows variability on time scales that range from years down to ~0.8 milliseconds. Before the Chandra and XMM-Newton era, emission features around 0.7…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Mendez , Jean Cottam , F. Paerels

We report on the \nustar{} observation of the newly discovered neutron star X-ray binary Swift~J1858.6-0814 taken on 23rd March 2019. The light curve of the source exhibits several large flares during some time intervals of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Aditya S. Mondal , B. Raychaudhuri , Gulab C Dewangan

4U 1957+11 is a black hole candidate system that has been in a soft X-ray spectral state since its discovery. We present analyses of recent joint NICER and NuSTAR spectra, which are extremely well-described by a highly inclined disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Erin Barillier , Victoria Grinberg , David Horn , Michael A. Nowak , Ronald A. Remillard , James F. Steiner , Dominic J. Walton , Jörn Wilms

We present a spectral analysis of three simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift/XRT observations of the transient Be-neutron star binary KS 1947+300 taken during its outburst in 2013/2014. These broad-band observations were supported by Swift/XRT…

The symbiotic X-ray binary 4U 1954+319 is a rare system hosting a peculiar neutron star (NS) and an M-type optical companion. Its ~5.4h NS spin period is the longest among all known accretion-powered pulsars and exhibited large (~7%)…

4U0114$+$65 is one of the slowest known X-ray pulsars. We present an analysis of a pointed observation by the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope. The energy-resolved light curve, the time-resolved X-ray spectra provided by the EPIC cameras on board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Graciela Sanjurjo , Jose Miguel Torrejon , Konstantin Postnov , Lida Oskinova , Jose Joaquin Rodes-Roca , Guillermo Bernabeu

We report on a 350-ks NuSTAR observation of the magnetar 1E 1841-045 taken in 2013 September. During the observation, NuSTAR detected six bursts of short duration, with $T_{90}<1$ s. An elevated level of emission tail is detected after the…