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We report on NuSTAR observations of transient pulsations in the neutron star X-ray binary SMC X-1. The transition from non-pulsing to pulsing states was not accompanied by a large change in flux. Instead, both pulsing and non-pulsing states…

We report here results from detailed timing and spectral studies of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U~1538--52 over several binary periods using observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and BeppoSAX satellites. Pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Mukherjee , H. Raichur , B. Paul , S. Naik , N. Bhatt

We analyzed the rapid aperiodic X-ray variability of the recently discovered millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. The power density spectrum is dominated by a strong band-limited noise component, which follows a power-law with index…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis

We report on observations of the candidate Be/X-ray binary IGR J18219$-$1347 with \textit{Swift}/XRT, \textit{NuSTAR}, and \textit{NICER} during Type-I outbursts in March and June 2020. Our timing analysis revealed the spin period of a…

We present new X-ray timing and spectral observations of PSR J1930+1852, the young energetic pulsar at the center of the non-thermal supernova remnant G54.1+0.3. Using data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and Chandra X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Fangjun Lu , Q. Daniel Wang , E. V. Gotthelf , Jinlu Qu

We study the relation between luminosity and spin-period change in X-ray binary pulsars using long-term light curve obtained by the MAXI/GSC all-sky survey and pulse period data from the Fermi/GBM pulsar project. X-ray binaries, consisting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-17 Mutsumi Sugizaki , Tatehiro Mihara , Motoki Nakajima , Kazutaka Yamaoka

Accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) undergo luminous X-ray outbursts during which the luminosity-dependent spectral and timing features of the neutron star's emission can be analyzed in detail, thus shedding light on the accretion regime at…

We conducted a spectral and temporal analysis of X-ray data from the Be X-ray binary pulsar SXP 15.6 located in the Small Magellanic Cloud based on NuSTAR, NICER and Swift observations during the 2021 outburst. We present for the first time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 G. Vasilopoulos , G. K. Jaisawal , C. Maitra , F. Haberl , P. Maggi , A. S. Karaferias

This work is devoted to the study of the broadband 0.8-79 keV spectral and timing properties of the poorly studied X-ray pulsar XTE J1859+083 during its 2015 outburst based on the data from the NuSTAR and Swift observatories. We show that…

We report a long-term, high-cadence timing and spectral observation of the X-ray pulsar SMC X-1 using NinjaSat, a 6U CubeSat in low-Earth orbit, covering nearly a full superorbital cycle. SMC X-1 is a high-mass X-ray binary exhibiting a 0.7…

We report on optical imaging of the X-ray binary SAX J1808.4-3658 with the 8-m Gemini South Telescope. The binary, containing an accretion-powered millisecond pulsar, appears to have a large periodic modulation in its quiescent optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Zhongxiang Wang , Cees Bassa , Andrew Cumming , Victoria M. Kaspi

There is a remarkable correlation between the spin periods of the accreting neutron stars in Be/X-ray binaries (BeXBs) and their orbital periods . Recently Knigge et al. (2011) showed that the distribution of the spin periods contains two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Z. -Q. Cheng , Y. Shao , X. -D. Li

We identify a new candidate for a Be/X-ray binary in the XMM-Newton slew survey and archival Swift observations that is located in the transition region of the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Magellanic Bridge. We investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , G. Vasilopoulos , E. S. Bartlett , P. Maggi , A. Rau , J. Greiner , A. Udalski

In the last quarter of a century, a unified characterization of the spectral evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries, both containing a neutron star and a black hole, was possible. In this context, the notion of source states characterizing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-08 E. Nespoli , P. Reig

M51 ULX7 is among a small group of known ultraluminous X-ray pulsars (ULXP). The neutron star powering the source has a spin period of 2.8s, orbits its companion star with a period of 2 days, and a super-orbital period of 38 days is evident…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Murray Brightman , Matteo Bachetti , Hannah Earnshaw , Felix Fürst , Marianne Heida , Gian Luca Israel , Sean Pike , Daniel Stern , Dominic J Walton

The 8.7s X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61 was monitored by BeppoSAX between January 1997 and February 1998. This source belongs to the rapidly growing class of "anomalous" X-ray pulsars (AXPs) which have pulse periods in the 6-12s range and no…

We present the detection of a positive correlation between spin-down rate $\dot{P}$ and pulsed X-ray luminosity in the BATSE archival data of the bright hard X-ray pulsar GX 1+4. We have also seen a delay of 5.6 $\pm$ 1.2 days between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Paul , A. R. Rao , K. P. Singh

Using X-ray data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we carried out pulse timing analysis of the transient X-ray pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545. An outburst was detected by All Sky Monitor (ASM) October 25 1999 and reached a peak X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Baykal , M. Stark , J. Swank

We present a detailed temporal analysis for the eclipsing high-mass X-ray binary system Cen X-3 using the Insight-HXMT data in 2018 and 2020. Three consecutive and high statistic observations among data are used for the precise timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 Qi Liu , Wei Wang

We present the timing results of out-of-eclipse observations of Centaurus X-3 spanning half a binary orbit, performed on 12-13 December, 2016 with the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) on-board AstroSat. The pulse profile was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 Parisee Shirke , Suman Bala , Jayashree Roy , Dipankar Bhattacharya