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We report on an outburst of the high mass X-ray binary 4U 0115+63 with a pulse period of 3.6s in 2008 March/April as observed with RXTE and INTEGRAL. During the outburst the neutron star's luminosity varied by a factor of 10 in the…

The Be X-ray binary GRO J2058+42 recently went through a Type-II outburst during March-April 2019 lasting for about 50 days. This outburst was detected with the operating all sky X-ray monitors like the Fermi-GBM, Swift-BAT and MAXI-GSC.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Sanhita Kabiraj , Biswajit Paul

We report X-ray observations of the newly discovered pulsating white dwarf eRASSU J191213.9-441044 with Spectrum Roentgen Gamma and eROSITA (SRG/eROSITA) and XMM-Newton. The new source was discovered during the first eROSITA all-sky survey…

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We present the first detailed spectral and timing analysis of the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) 4U 1909+07 with INTEGRAL and RXTE. 4U 1909+07 is detected with an average of 2.4cps in ISGRI, but shows flares up to ~50cps. The system shows a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-29 F. Fuerst , I. Kreykenbohm , L. Barragán , J. Wilms , R. E. Rothschild , S. Suchy , K. Pottschmidt

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…

IGR J0607.4+2205 is a transient Be X-ray binary discovered two decades ago. IGR J0607.4+2205 underwent an outburst in 2023 during which it was observed twice with \textit{NuSTAR}. The main goal of this work is to model the broadband X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-28 Kinjal Roy , Rahul Sharma , Hemanth Manikantan , Biswajit Paul

We present results from two observations of the wind-accreting X-ray pulsar 4U 1907+09 using the Suzaku observatory. The broadband time-averaged spectrum allows us to examine the continuum emission of the source and the cyclotron resonance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 E. Rivers , A. Markowitz , K. Pottschmidt , S. Roth , L. Barragán , F. Fürst , S. Suchy , I. Kreykenbohm , J. Wilms , R. Rothschild

The source 4U 2206+54 is one of the most enigmatic high-mass X-ray binaries. In spite of intensive searches, X-ray pulsations have not been detected in the time range 0.001-1000 s. A cyclotron line at ~30 keV has been suggested by various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Reig , J. M Torrejon , I. Negueruela , P. Blay , M. Ribo , J. Wilms

We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral study of GRS 1915+105 during its low-flux rebrightening phase using the broadband capabilities of AstroSat and NuSTAR in May-June 2019. The AstroSat light curves revealed erratic X-ray flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Shahzada Akhter , Sajad Boked , Bari Maqbool , Ranjeev Misra , V. Jithesh

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…

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

The Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 underwent a giant outburst in late 2022 and lasted three months. The Insight-HXMT has observed this source at several instances of the entire outburst in 2022-2023. We used these bright outburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Prahlad R. Epili , Wei Wang

We present broadband X-ray observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) pulsar SMC X-2, using concurrent NuSTAR and NICER observations during its 2022 outburst. The source is found to be spinning with a period of 2.37281(3) s. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

X-ray timing properties of the magnetar SGR 1900+14 were studied, using the data taken with Suzaku in 2009 and NuSTAR in 2016, for a time lapse of 114 ks and 242 ks, respectively. On both occasions, the object exhibited the characteristic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 K. Makishima , T. Tamba , Y. Aizawa , H. Odaka , H. Yoneda , T. Enoto , H. Suzuki

We study the variations in the Cyclotron Resonant Scattering Feature (CRSF) during 2011 outburst of the high mass X-ray binary 4U 0115+63 using observations performed with Suzaku, RXTE, Swift and INTEGRAL satellites. The wide-band spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 N. Iyer , D. Mukherjee , G. C. Dewangan , D. Bhattacharya , S. Seetha

The X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 went through a giant outburst in 2022 and reached a record-high flux of 2.3 Crab, as observed by Swift/BAT. We study the evolution of different spectral and timing properties of the source using NICER…

We report NuSTAR observations of the millisecond pulsar - low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) transition system PSR J1023+0038 from June and October 2013, before and after the formation of an accretion disk around the neutron star. Between June…

We present results of the analysis of super-Eddington flares registered from the X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 by the NuSTAR observatory in the broad energy range 3-79 keV. The pulsar spectrum is well described by the thermal comptonization model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 A. E. Shtykovsky , V. A. Arefiev , A. A. Lutovinov , S. V. Molkov

We analyzed RXTE archival observations of 4U 1907+09 between 17 February 1996 and 6 March 2002. The pulse timing analysis showed that the source stayed at almost {\bf{constant}} period around August 1998 and then started to spin-down at a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Baykal , S. C. Inam , E. Beklen

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