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We present results of the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 with the NuSTAR observatory in the broad energy range 3-79 keV. Along with the detailed analysis of the averaged source spectrum, the high-precision pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 A. E. Shtykovsky , A. A. Lutovinov , V. A. Arefiev , S. V. Molkov , S. S. Tsygankov

We present a comprehensive analysis of AstroSat/LAXPC data of the second spin-up and second spin-down phases of the persistent X-ray pulsar 4U 1626-67. Flares followed by a broad dip are detected in the spin-up observations. The pulse…

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We have collected data spanning seven years of observations of the magnetar 4U 0142+61 in the infrared, optical and soft X-rays. These combine our own observations and analysis of archival data. We find that the source is variable in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Martin Durant , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

We report on an observational campaign performed with Swift/XRT on the wind-fed supergiant X-ray binary 4U 1909+07 to investigate the nature of the orbital and superorbital modulation of its X-ray emission. A total of 137 XRT observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 P. Romano , H. I. Cohen , E. Bozzo , N. Islam , A. Lange , R. H. D. Corbet , J. B. Coley , K. Pottschmidt

We report on the energy-resolved timing and phase-resolved spectral analysis of X-ray emission from PSR J0659+1414 observed with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. We find that the new data rule out the previously suggested model of the phase-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Prakash Arumugasamy , Oleg Kargaltsev , Bettina Posselt , George G. Pavlov , Jeremy Hare

We present the first results of the observations of the X-ray pulsars LMC X-4, 4U0352+309 and EXO1722-363 performed with the INTEGRAL observatory. The LMC X-4 was investigated during the whole superorbital cycle ($\sim$30 days) and it was…

We present the results obtained from broadband spectroscopy of the high mass X-ray binary 4U 1700-37 using data from a Suzaku observation in 2006 September 13-14 covering 0.29-0.72 orbital phase range. The light curves showed significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik

We investigated the optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray variability of the pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545. Our timing and spectral analyses of the X-ray and gamma-ray emissions from the source using RXTE and INTEGRAL data show that the shape of its…

The examination of two 2010 Chandra ACIS exposures of the Circinus galaxy resulted in the discovery of two pulsators: CXO J141430.1-651621 and CXOU J141332.9-651756. We also detected 26-ks pulsations in CG X-1, consistently with previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , D. Milisavljevic , M. Mapelli , L. Zampieri , L. Sidoli , G. Fabbiano , G. A. Rodríguez Castillo

We present a spectral and timing study of the High Mass X-ray Binary transient source 4U 1700-37 using NuSTAR and ASTROSAT/LAXPC. The source is observed in two different flux states. A combined spectral analysis of NuSTAR's FPMA and FPMB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-13 Suman Bala , Jayashree Roy , Dipankar Bhattacharya

We present the spectral analysis of the LMXB GRO J1744-28 using $\sim$29 ks of NuSTAR data taken in 2017 February at a low luminosity of $3.2\times 10^{36}$ erg/s (3-50 keV). The continuum spectrum is modeled with an absorbed power-law with…

In this paper, we report on the analysis of the peculiar X-ray variability displayed by the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 in a 80 ks-long joint NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observation performed during the source outburst in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 C. Ferrigno , E. Bozzo , A. Sanna , F. Pintore , A. Papitto , A. Riggio , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , A. D'Aì

High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest objects of our Galaxy in the high energy domain (0.1-100 keV). Despite our relatively good knowledge of their basic emission mechanisms, the complex problem of understanding their time and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Ferrigno , M. Falanga , E. Bozzo , P. A. Becker , D. Klochkov , A. Santangelo

In this paper we present X-Shooter time resolved spectroscopy and RXTE PCA light curves of the ultra-compact X-ray binary candidate 4U 0614+091. The X-Shooter data are compared to the GMOS data analyzed previously by Nelemans et al. (2004).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 O. K. Madej , P. G. Jonker , P. J. Groot , L. M. van Haaften , G. Nelemans , T. J. Maccarone

We report on timing and spectral analysis of transient Be X-ray pulsar GRO J1750-27 by using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observation from September 2021. This is the fourth outburst of the system since 1995. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Prince Sharma , Chetana Jain , Anjan Dutta

From the analysis of a ~100 ks Chandra observation of the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 1569, we have found that the X-ray point sources, CXOU 043048.1+645050 and CXOU 043048.6+645058, showed significant time variability. During this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Heike , H. Awaki , Y. Misao , K. Hayashida , K. A. Weaver

We present a broadband (~0.5-79 keV) spectral and temporal analysis of multiple NuSTAR observations combined with archival Suzaku and Chandra data of NGC4945, the brightest extragalactic source at 100 keV. We observe hard X-ray (> 10 keV)…

After at least 6 years of quiescence, Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) 4U 0142+61 entered an active phase in 2006 March that lasted several months and included six X-ray bursts as well as many changes in the persistent X-ray emission. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-21 Fotis P. Gavriil , Rim Dib , Victoria M. Kaspi

We present the most extensive high-time resolution multi-band campaign to date on the candidate transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) 3FGL J1544.6-1125 in the sub-luminous disk state, with coordinated observations from the radio to the…

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