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We report the discovery with the Proportional Counter Array on board the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of highly coherent 582 Hz pulsations during the February 22, 2001 (UT) ``superburst'' from 4U 1636-53. The pulsations are detected during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tod E. Strohmayer , Craig. B. Markwardt

On 2011 July 14, a new magnetar candidate, Swift J1822.3-1606, was identified via a rate trigger on the Swift/Burst Alert Telescope. Here we present an initial analysis of the X-ray properties of the source, using data from the Rossi X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Margaret A. Livingstone , Paul Scholz , Victoria M. Kaspi , C. -Y. Ng , Fotis P. Gavriil

We present the timing and spectral analysis of the HMXB source 4U 1538-522 using NuSTAR observations. One of the observations partially covers the X-ray eclipse of the source along with eclipse ingress. The source is found to spin down at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-02 Ruchi Tamang , Manoj Ghising , Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Bikash Chandra Paul

We report timing and spectral studies of the high mass X-ray binary 4U 1700-37 using Insight-HXMT observations carried out in 2020 during its out-of-eclipse state. We found significant variations in flux on a time-scale of kilo-seconds,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-02 Hua Xiao , Long Ji , Peng Zhang , Lorenzo Ducci , Victor Doroshenko , Andrea Santangelo , Shu Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang

4U 0142+61 is one of a small class of persistently bright magnetars. Here we report on a monitoring campaign of 4U 0142+61 from 2011 July 26 - 2016 June 12 using the Swift X-ray Telescope, continuing a 16 year timing campaign with the Rossi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 R. F. Archibald , V. M. Kaspi , P. Scholz , A. P. Beardmore , N. Gehrels , J. A. Kennea

We study the timing and spectral properties of the X-ray pulsar 2S 1417--624 during the recent outburst in January 2021 based on the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observation. We also used some early data from the 2018…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal

We analyze all X-ray timing data on 1E 1207.4-5209 in supernova remnant PKS 1209-51/52 gathered in 2000-2005, and find a highly stable rotation with P=424.130451(4) ms and period derivative of (9.6 +/- 9.4)E-17 s/s. This refutes previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

We present new observations of two anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXP) 4U 0142+61 and 1E 1048.1-5937 made in 1998 with the ASCA. The energy spectra of these two AXPs are found to consist of two components, a power-law and a blackbody emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Paul , M. Kawasaki , T. Dotani , F. Nagase

X-ray observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar 4U~1907+09, obtained during February 1996 with the Proportional Counter Array on the Rossi X-ray Timing Experiment (RXTE), have enabled the first measurement of the intrinsic pulse period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. J. M. in 't Zand , A. Baykal , T. E. Strohmayer

X-ray timing studies of the persistent, Galactic, accretion-powered pulsar 4U 1626$-$67 reveal torque reversals, during which the pulse frequency $\nu(t)$ alternates between multiyear episodes of secular acceleration and deceleration,…

Using Chandra data taken on 2008 June, we detected pulsations at 2.59439(4) s in the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1627-41. This is the second measurement of the source spin period and allows us to derive for the first time a long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Esposito , M. Burgay , A. Possenti , R. Turolla , S. Zane , A. De Luca , A. Tiengo , G. L. Israel , F. Mattana , S. Mereghetti , M. Bailes , P. Romano , D. Götz , N. Rea

An overview of the results of observations for the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63, a member of a binary system with a Be star, since its discovery to the present day (~40 years) based on data from more than dozen observatories and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 P. A. Boldin , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

We present timing and spectral results of 2018 outburst of Cepheus X-4, observed twice by AstroSat at luminosity of $2.04 \times 10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$ and $1.02 \times 10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$ respectively. The light curves showed strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Kallol Mukerjee , H. M. Antia

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

The low-mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1626-67 shows 0.048 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and red noise variability as well as coherent pulsations at the 0.130 Hz neutron star spin frequency. Power density spectra of observations made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. M. Kommers , D. Chakrabarty , W. H. G. Lewin

We report on a timing and spectral analysis of a 50-ks NuSTAR observation of IGR J16320-4751 (= AX J1631.9-4752); a high-mass X-ray binary hosting a slowly-rotating neutron star. In this observation from 2015, the spin period was…

The NuSTAR hard X-ray telescope observed the transient Be/X-ray binary GS 0834-430 during its 2012 outburst - the first active state of this system observed in the past 19 years. We performed timing and spectral analysis, and measured the…

We report the results obtained from a detailed timing and spectral studies of Be/X-ray binary pulsar 2S 1417-624 using data from Swift and NuSTAR observatories. The observations were carried out at the peak of a giant outburst of the pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Shivangi Gupta , Sachindra Naik , Gaurava K. Jaisawal

In this paper we study the timing and spectral properties of Be/X-ray binary pulsar EXO 2030+375 using a $Suzaku$ observation on 2012 May 23, during a less intense Type I outburst. Pulsations were clearly detected in the X-ray light curves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Sachindra Naik , Gaurava K. Jaisawal

We report the results from a detailed timing and spectral study of transient X-ray pulsars, 4U 1901+03 during its 2019 outburst. We performed broadband spectroscopy in the 1-70 keV energy band using four observations made with Swift and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Aru Beri , Tinku , Nirmal K. Iyer , Chandreyee Maitra