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A few years after its discovery as a magnetar, SGR J1935+2154 started a new burst-active phase on 2020 April 27, accompanied by a large enhancement of its X-ray persistent emission. Radio single bursts were detected during this activation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 A. Borghese , F. Coti Zelati , N. Rea , P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , S. Mereghetti , A. Tiengo

We study the timing and spectral properties of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar SXP 138 using four NuSTAR observations spanning 2016 to 2017. Analysis of the light curves using the Lomb-Scargle periodogram shows an increase in the spin period of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-11 Soham Pravin Sanyashiv , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Sudip Bhattacharyya

NuSTAR is a highly sensitive focusing hard X-ray (HXR) telescope and has observed several small microflares in its initial solar pointings. In this paper, we present the first joint observation of a microflare with NuSTAR and Hinode/XRT on…

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) on board Swift has accumulated extensive light curves for 265 sources (not including GRBs) in the energy range 14 to 200 keV. We present here a summary of searches for periodic modulation in the flux from…

We present an in-depth analysis and results of eleven XMM-Newton datasets, spanning 2000 to 2016, of the anomalous X-ray Pulsar CXOU J010043.1$-$721134 which has been classified as a magnetar. We find a spin-period of 8.0275(1) s as of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Rwitika Chatterjee , Vivek K. Agrawal , Anuj Nandi

The supernova impostor SN 2010da located in the nearby galaxy NGC 300, later identified as a likely supergiant B[e] high-mass X-ray binary, was simultaneously observed by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton between 2016 December 16 and 20, over a total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Carpano , F. Haberl , C. Maitra , G. Vasilopoulos

The ultracompact low-mass X-ray binary 4U 0513-40 in the globular cluster NGC1851 exhibits large amplitude X-ray flux variations with spectral changes from low/hard to high/soft states which have not been reported previously in other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Fiocchi , A. Bazzano , L. Natalucci , R. Landi , P. Ubertini

We report on NuSTAR, XMM-Newton and Swift observations of the gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856. We measure the orbital period to be 16.544+/-0.008 days using Swift data spanning 1900 days. The orbital period is different from the 2011…

We present results from the first successful millimetre (combined 33 GHz and 35 GHz) observations of the neutron star X-ray binary Circinus X-1, using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The source was clearly detected in all three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 D. E. Calvelo , R. P. Fender , A. K. Tzioumis , J. W. Broderick

We characterize the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) pulsar SXP 46.6 using NuSTAR observations conducted in 2017. The spin period (P) of this neutron star decreased from its discovered value of 46.6 s to a value of 45.984(1) s, indicating a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-03 Aman Kaushik , Sayantan Bhattacharya , Sudip Bhattacharyya

The hot subdwarf HD 49798 has an X-ray emitting compact companion with a spin-period of 13.2 s and a dynamically measured mass of 1.28+/-0.05 M_sun, consistent with either a neutron star or a white dwarf. Using all the available XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Sandro Mereghetti , Fabio Pintore , Paolo Esposito , Nicola La Palombara , Andrea Tiengo , Gian Luca Israel , Luigi Stella

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 present a spectral and timing analysis of INTEGRAL observations of two high mass X-ray binaries, 4U 1538-522 and 4U 1907+09. Our timing measurements for 4U 1538-522 find the pulse period to have exhibited a spin-up trend until…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Paul Hemphill , Richard Rothschild , Isabel Caballero , Katja Pottschmidt , Matthias Kuehnel , Felix Fuerst , Joern Wilms

We present a hard X-ray observation of the TeV gamma-ray binary candidate HESS J1832-093 coincident with supernova remnant (SNR) G22.7-0.2 using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). Non-thermal X-ray emission from XMMU…

In 2018, XMM-Newton observed the awakening in X-rays of the Be/X-ray binary (Be/XRB) A0538-66. It showed bright and fast flares close to periastron with properties that had never been observed in other Be/XRBs before. We report the results…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 L. Ducci , S. Mereghetti , A. Santangelo , L. Ji , S. Carpano , S. Covino , V. Doroshenko , F. Haberl , C. Maitra , I. Kreykenbohm , A. Udalski

Understanding the origin of the flaring activity from the Galactic center supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is a major scientific goal of the NuSTAR Galactic plane survey campaign. We report on the data obtained between July 2012 and…

We present new optical and infrared (IR) observations of Cir X-1 taken near apastron. Both sets of spectra show asymmetric emission lines. Archival optical observations show that an asymmetric H-alpha emission line has been in evidence for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Helen Johnston , Rob Fender , Kinwah Wu

We present a rapid timing analysis of optical (HiPERCAM and ULTRACAM) and X-ray (NICER) observations of the X-ray transient Swift J1858.6-0814 during 2018 and 2019. The optical light curves show relatively slow, large amplitude (~1 mags in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 T. Shahbaz , J. A. Paice , K. M. Rajwade , A. Veledina , P. Gandhi. , V. S. Dhillon , T. R. Marsh , S. Littlefair , M. R. Kennedy , R. P. Breton , C. J. Clark

We report on an X-ray observing campaign of the ultraluminous X-ray source IC 342 X-1 with NuSTAR and Swift in 2016 October, in which we captured the very moment when the source showed spectral variation. The Swift/XRT spectrum obtained in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Megumi Shidatsu , Yoshihiro Ueda , Sergei Fabrika

We present the first NuSTAR X-ray observation of EF Eri, a well-known polar system. The NuSTAR observation was conducted in conjunction with NICER, shortly after EF Eri entered a high accretion state following an unprecedented period of low…