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We report the results of an analysis of data obtained with the INTEGRAL, Swift and RXTE observatories during the 2010 April and September outbursts of the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431. The temporal and spectral properties of the pulsar in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Tsygankov , R. Krivonos , A. Lutovinov

The high-mass X-ray binary and accreting X-ray pulsar IGR J16393-4643 was observed by NuSTAR in the 3-79 keV energy band for a net exposure time of 50 ks. We present the results of this observation which enabled the discovery of a cyclotron…

We report results of a spectral and timing analysis of the poorly studied transient X-ray pulsar 2S 1553-542 using data collected with the NuSTAR and Chandra observatories and the Fermi/GBM instrument during an outburst in 2015. Properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Sergey S. Tsygankov , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Roman A. Krivonos , Sergey V. Molkov , Peter J. Jenke , Mark H. Finger , Juri Poutanen

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

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 in the ISGRI 20-40 keV energy band with an average countrate of 2.6 cps. The pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Fuerst , I. Kreykenbohm , S. Suchy , L. Barragan , J. Wilms , R. E. Rothschild , K. Pottschmidt

We report on the first NuSTAR observation of the gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsar binary PSR J1723-2837. X-ray radiation up to 79 keV is clearly detected and the simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift spectrum is well described by an absorbed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 A. K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , K. L. Li , P. H. T. Tam

We observed the ultra-compact binary candidate 4U 0614+091 for a total of 200 ksec with the high-energy transmission gratings onboard the \chandra X-ray Observatory. The source is found at various intensity levels with spectral variations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Norbert S. Schulz , Michael P. Nowak , Deepto Chakrabarty , Claude R. Canizares

Results on timing and spectral properties of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar 3A 0726-260 (4U 0728-25) are presented. The binary was observed on 2016 May 6-7 with the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) and Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Jayashree Roy , P. C. Agrawal , B. Singari , R. Misra

We present the results of our study of the X-ray pulsar IGR J21343+4738 based on NuSTAR, Swift, and SRG observations in the wide energy range 0.3 - 79 keV. The absence of absorption features in the energy spectra of the source, both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-30 A. S. Gorban , S. V. Molkov , A. A. Lutovinov , A. N. Semena

In this paper, we report the results of the detailed temporal and spectral studies of the BeXRB J21347+4737 based on the data from the NuSTAR and \textit{SWIFT/XRT} in a wide energy range of 0.5-50 keV. Coherent pulsation with a period of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-22 Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Binay Rai , Mohammed Tobrej , Bikash Chandra Paul

We have investigated the dipping activity observed in the high-mass X-ray binary 4U 1907+09 and shown that the source continues to pulsate in the "off" state, noting that the transition between the "on" and "off" states may be either…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-17 V. Doroshenko , A. Santangelo , L. Ducci , D. Klochkov

4U 1626-67 is an accretion powered X-ray pulsar that shows remarkably stable X-ray luminosity above hours timescale and gradual intensity variation on a few years timescale. Here we report a significant increase in the X-ray intensity in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Chetana Jain , Biswajit Paul , Anjan Dutta

We have discovered a ~29 keV Cyclotron Resonant Scattering Feature (CRSF) in the X-Ray spectrum of 4U 0352+309 (X Per) using observations taken with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. 4U 0352+309 is a persistent low luminosity (L_x =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. Coburn , W. A. Heindl , D. E. Gruber , R. E. Rothschild , R. Staubert , J. Wilms , I. Kreykenbohm

X-ray spectra of accreting pulsars are generally observed to vary with their X-ray luminosity. In particular, the hardness of the X-ray continuum is found to depend on luminosity. In a few sources, the correlation between the energy of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 V. Vybornov , D. Klochkov , M. Gornostaev , K. Postnov , E. Sokolova-Lapa , R. Staubert , K. Pottschmidt , A. Santangelo

We present detailed spectral and timing studies using a NuSTAR observation of GX 1+4 in October 2015 during an intermediate intensity state. The measured spin period of 176.778 s is found to be one of the highest values since its discovery.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik , Shivangi Gupta , J. Chenevez , Prahlad Epili

Spin properties and spectral variations of high mass X-ray binary 4U 2206+54 are studied with long-term hard X-ray monitoring observations by INTEGRAL. A long-period X-ray pulsar of P_spin\sim 5558 s has been identified in 4U 2206+54. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Wei Wang

In this study, X-ray spectral and pulse timing analysis of the high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) pulsar 4U 1907+09, based on the observations with RXTE are presented. Spin rate measurements indicate a new spin-down episode with a rate close to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Sahiner , S. C. Inam , A. Baykal

Sagittarius A* harbors the supermassive black hole that lies at the dynamical center of our Galaxy. Sagittarius A* spends most of its time in a low luminosity emission state but flares frequently in the infrared and X-ray, increasing up to…

We investigated the X-ray emission of HD 149404, a 9.81-day period O-star binary in a post-Roche lobe overflow evolutionary stage. X-ray emission of O-star binaries consists of the intrinsic emission of the individual O stars and a putative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-25 G. Rauw , S. Lizin , S. Rosu , E. Mossoux

During hard X-ray observations of the Norma spiral arm region by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) in 2013 February, a new transient source, NuSTAR J163433-4738.7, was detected at a significance level of 8-sigma in the 3-10…

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