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We have studied the aperiodic variability of the 401 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 using the complete data set collected with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer over 14 years of observation. The source shows a number…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Peter Bult , Michiel van der Klis

We report on continued monitoring of the Anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) 1E 1048.1-5937 using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. We confirm that this pulsar has exhibited significant pulsed flux variability. The principal features of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fotis P. Gavriil , Victoria M. Kaspi

We report on the timing and spectral properties of PSR J1838-0655 using joint observations from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). By disentangling the pulsar's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Xian-Ao Wang , Han-Long Peng , Jin-Tao Zheng , Shi-Qi Zhou , Wen-Tao Ye , Ming-Yu Ge , Xiang-Hua Li , Shi-Jie Zheng

We report on a coherent timing analysis of the 163 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17062-6143. Using data collected with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer and XMM-Newton, we investigated the pulsar evolution over a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-19 Peter Bult , Tod E. Strohmayer , Christian Malacaria , Mason Ng , Zorawar Wadiasingh

We present Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) hard X-ray timing and spectroscopy of the three exceptionally energetic rotation-powered millisecond pulsars PSRs B1821-24, B1937+21, and J0218+4232. By correcting the NuSTAR onboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 E. V. Gotthelf , S. Bogdanov

We present the results of a BeppoSAX observation of the fastest rotating pulsar known: PSR B1937+21. The ~200 ks observation (78.5 ks MECS/34 ks LECS on-source time) allowed us to investigate with high statistical significance both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Nicastro , G. Cusumano , O. Loehmer , M. Kramer , L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen , T. Mineo , W. Becker

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

The recent discovery by Bachetti et al. (2014) of a pulsar in M82 that can reach luminosities of up to 10^40 ergs s^-1, a factor of ~100 the Eddington luminosity for a 1.4 Msol compact object, poses a challenge for accretion physics. In…

We report for the first time on the rapid X-ray variability of the galactic bulge source and X-ray burster SLX 1735-269. The power spectrum as observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer is characterized by a strong band-limited noise…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis

We present a comprehensive timing and spectral analysis of the HMXB 4U 1538-522 by using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observatory data. Using three archived observations made between 2019 and 2021, we have detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Prince Sharma , Chetana Jain , Anjan Dutta

We report results of Swift observations for the high mass Be/X-ray binary system 1A 1118-615, during an outburst stage in January, 2009 and at a flaring stage in March, 2009. Using the epoch-folding method, we successfully detected a pulsed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-19 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Jumpei Takata , Albert K. H. Kong , Chorng-Yuan Hwang

After nearly a decade of quiescence, the transient Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0520.5-6932 underwent an outburst in 2024. We performed X-ray monitoring of the source with NICER and AstroSat near the peak of the event. Our primary objective…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Rahul Sharma , Aru Beri , Biswajit Paul , Andrea Sanna , Chandreyee Maitra , Haonan Yang

We present the timing and spectral properties of the transient Be/X-ray binary pulsar 3A 0535+262 during quiescence using three observations with the narrow field imaging instruments (NFI) of BeppoSAX. Assuming a distance of 2 kpc for this…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 U. Mukherjee , B. Paul

We have monitored a Type II outburst of the Be/X-ray binary MXB 0656-072 in a series of pointed RXTE observations during October through December 2003. The source spectrum shows a cyclotron resonance scattering feature at 32.8 +/- 0.5 keV,…

We present the results obtained from timing and spectral studies of Be/X-ray binary pulsar EXO 2030+375 using observations with the Large Area Xenon Proportional Counters and Soft X-ray Telescope of AstroSat, at various phases of its Type-I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-15 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik , Shivangi Gupta , P. C. Agrawal , Arghajit Jana , Birendra Chhotaray , Prahlad R. Epili

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…

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 based on the Insight-HXMT observations. Pulsations can be detected in the energy band of 1-150 keV. The pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Yu-Jia Du , Lorenzo Ducci , Long Ji , Qing-Cui Bu , Ling-Da Kong , Peng-Ju Wang , Youli Tuo , Andrea Santangelo

The Be X-ray binary EXO 2030+375 was in an extended low luminosity state during most of 2016. We observed this state with NuSTAR and Swift, supported by INTEGRAL observations as well as optical spectroscopy with the NOT. We present a…

During normal Type I outbursts, the pulse profiles of Be/X-ray binary pulsars are found to be complex in soft X-ray energy ranges. The profiles in soft X-ray energy ranges are characterized by the presence of narrow absorption dips or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 Sachindra Naik

Spin period variations and hard X-ray spectral properties of Be/X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 are studied with INTEGRAL observations. The pulsation periods at 93.66 s in 2004 and at 93.73 s in 2009 are determined. Pulse profiles of GRO J1008-57…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Wei Wang