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We aim both to complement the existing data on the spin history of the peculiar accreting X-ray pulsar GX 1+4 with more past and current data from BeppoSAX, INTEGRAL, and Fermi and to interpret the evolution in the framework of accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 A. González-Galán , E. Kuulkers , P. Kretschmar , S. Larsson , K. Postnov , A. Kochetkova , M. H. Finger

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…

The Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 went through a giant outburst in December 2022 with a peak flux of $\sim$2.3 Crab in 15--50 keV. We studied the broad-band timing and spectral properties of RX J0440.9+4431 using four $AstroSat$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Rahul Sharma , Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal , Biswajit Paul , G. K. Jaisawal , Ajay Ratheesh

RX J0440.9+4431, a Be/X-ray binary, had its brightest outburst in 2022 since its discovery, with a peak X-ray flux of 2.25 Crab (as recorded by Swift/BAT, 15-50 keV). We analyze the timing properties of this giant outburst using data from…

We made a detailed study of the timing and spectral properties of the X-ray pulsar 1A 0535+262 during the recent giant outburst in 2020 November and December. The flux of the pulsar reached a record value of $\sim$12.5 Crab as observed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-11 Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal

In this paper, we report on the hard X-ray observation of the X-ray pulsar 1E 1145.1-6141 performed with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array mission (NuSTAR). The coherent pulsation of the source with a period of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Manoj Ghising , Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

We report a time-resolved analysis of the accreting X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 using observations carried out by NuSTAR, which cover approximately two binary orbits in different intensity states. The pulse profile is relatively stable over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 Qi Liu , Wei Wang , Andrea Santangelo , Lingda Kong , Long Ji , Lorenzo Ducci

The high mass X-ray binary system 4U 0114+65 was observed by Nustar in October 2019, and by XMM-Newton in August 2015. Here we performed spectral and timing analysis of the Nustar observation, and carry out timing analysis on the XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-04 Mohammed H. Abdallah , Rasha M. Samir , Denis A. Leahy , Ashraf A. Shaker

We present results from a study of broadband timing and spectral properties of EXO 2030+375 using a Suzaku observation. Pulsations with a period of 41.41 s and strong energy dependent pulse profiles were clearly detected up to ~100 keV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-06 Sachindra Naik , Chandreyee Maitra , Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Biswajit Paul

Context: Monitoring of pulse period variations in accreting binary pulsars is an important tool to study the interaction between the magnetosphere of the neutron star and the accretion disk. While the X-ray flux of the brightest X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Klochkov , R. Staubert , K. Postnov , N. Shakura , A. Santangelo

In this paper we present a coherent timing analysis of the 401 Hz pulsations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2019 outburst. Using observations collected with the Neutron Star Interior Composition…

We report the X-ray spectral and timing analysis of the high mass X-ray binary EXO 2030+375 during the 2021 type II outburst. We have incorporated NuSTAR, NICER, \textit{Swift}/BAT \& \textit{Fermi}/GBM observations to carry out a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-15 Ruchi Tamang , Manoj Ghising , Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Bikash Chandra Paul

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

The November 1999 outburst of the transient pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545 was monitored with the large area detectors of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer until the pulsar faded after a year. The 358 s pulsar was spun up for 150 days, at which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Baykal , M. J. Stark , J. H. Swank

We report on time-resolved optical imaging of the X-ray binary SAX J1808.4-3658 during its quiescent state and 2008 outburst. The binary, containing an accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, has a large sinusoidal-like modulation in its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Z. Wang , R. P. Breton , C. O. Heinke , C. J. Deloye , J. Zhong

We report the results of AstroSat and NuSTAR observations of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar SXP 15.3 in the Small Magellanic Cloud during its outburst in late 2017, when the source reached a luminosity level of ~ 10^{38} erg s^{-1}, close to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-15 Chandreyee Maitra , Biswajit Paul , Frank Haberl , Georgios Vasilopoulos

We investigate optical reprocessing of X-rays in the LMXB pulsar 4U 1626-67 in its current spin-up phase using observations with Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), near-simultaneous observations with Swift-XRT and non-simultaneous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-18 Gayathri Raman , Biswajit Paul , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Vijay Mohan

The pulse profiles of the accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 at different energies are studied. The two main emission component, a black body and a power-law tail, clearly identified in the time-averaged spectrum, do not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juri Poutanen , Marek Gierlinski

NGC 300 ULX1 is the fourth to be discovered in the class of the ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars. Pulsations from NGC 300 ULX1 were discovered during simultaneous XMM-Newton / NuSTAR observations in Dec. 2016. The period decreased from 31.71 s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Chandreyee Maitra , Stefania Carpano , Frank Haberl , Georgios Vasilopoulos

The spin behaviour of the neutron star in the newly discovered young Be/X-ray long-period pulsar SXP 1062 is discussed. The star is observed to rotate with the period of 1062s, and spin-down at the rate ~ - 2.6 \times 10^{-12} Hz s^{-1}. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-24 N. R. Ikhsanov
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