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We have studied the temporal and spectral properties of SXP 15.3 observed by \textit{NuSTAR} in hard energy range 3-79 keV during late 2018. The timing analysis of \textit{NuSTAR} observation predicts coherent pulsation at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-24 Manoj Ghising , Binay Rai , Mohammed Tobrej , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

We study the recently discovered Be/X-ray pulsar MAXI J0655--013 using the 2022 \emph{NuSTAR} observations. The paper is the first detailed study of the timing and spectral properties of the source. The pulse profiles of the pulsar vary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Binay Rai , Mohammed Tobrej , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

We present spectral and timing analysis of NuSTAR observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar 2RXP J130159.6-635806. The source was serendipitously observed during a campaign focused on the gamma-ray binary PSR B1259-63 and was later…

The Be X-ray pulsar (BeXRP) SXP 59 underwent a giant outburst in 2017 with a peak X-ray luminosity of $1.1\times10^{38}$ erg~s$^{-1}$. We report on the X-ray behaviour of SXP 59 with the XMM--Newton and NuSTAR observations collected at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-19 Shan-Shan Weng , Ming-Yu Ge , Hai-Hui Zhao

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 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

Context. About 120 Be/X-ray binaries (BeXBs) are known in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC); about half of them are pulsating with periods from a few to hundreds of seconds. SXP 1323 is one of the longest-period pulsars known in this galaxy.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Stefania Carpano , Frank Haberl , Richard Sturm

We present the results obtained from timing and spectral studies of the newly discovered accreting X-ray binary pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using a NuSTAR observation in 2017 October at a flux level of ~280 mCrab. Pulsations at 9.85423(5) s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-30 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik , J. Chenevez

We report X-ray observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) pulsar 4U 1907+09. Spectral and Timing analysis of the source has been performed using NuSTAR observation. Timing analysis of the photon events revealed the coherent X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-14 Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

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

Context: Be/X-ray binaries show outbursts with peak luminosities up to a few times $10^{37}\,$erg/s, during which they can be observed and studied in detail. Most (if not all) Be/X-ray binaries harbour accreting pulsars, whose X-ray spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Christian Malacaria , Dmitry Klochkov , Andrea Santangelo , Rüdiger Staubert

We report the results provided by the XMM-Newton observation of the X-ray binary pulsar SXP59.0 during its most recent outburst in April 2017. The source was detected at $f_{\rm X}$(0.2-12 keV) = 8$\times 10^{-11}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 N. La Palombara , P. Esposito , F. Pintore , L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , A. Tiengo

The spectra of several X-ray binary pulsars display a clear soft excess, which in most cases can be described with a blackbody model, above the main power-law component. While in the high-luminosity sources it is usually characterized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 N. La Palombara , L. Sidoli , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti

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

In this paper we present the identification of two periodic X-ray signals coming from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). On detection with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), the 175.4s and 85.4s pulsations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 L. J. Townsend , S. P. Drave , A. B. Hill , M. J. Coe , R. H. D. Corbet , A. J. Bird

The discovery of source states in the X-ray emission of black-hole binaries and neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries constituted a major step forward in the understanding of the physics of accretion onto compact objects. While there are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-13 Pablo Reig , Elisa Nespoli

We have studied the timing and spectral properties of the BeXB 4U 1901+03 during the 2019 outburst using \textit{NuSTAR}, \textit{Swift}, and \textit{NICER} observations. Flares are in all observations and were of tens to hundreds of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Binay Rai , Bikash Chandra Paul

We report on an X-ray observation of the Be X-ray Binary Pulsar RX J0059.2-7138, performed by XMM-Newton in March 2014. The 19 ks long observation was carried out about three months after the discovery of the latest outburst from this Small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Sidoli , N. La Palombara , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti

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

We present an X-ray spectral and timing analysis of two $NuSTAR$ observations of the transient Be X-ray binary SAX J2103.5+4545 during its April 2016 outburst, which was characterized by the highest flux since $NuSTAR$'s launch. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 McKinley C. Brumback , Ryan C. Hickox , Felix S. Fürst , Katja Pottschmidt , Paul Hemphill , John A. Tomsick , Jörn Wilms , Ralf Ballhausen
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