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We analyze a XRISM/Resolve observation of NGC1068, focusing on the Fe K$\alpha$ and Fe K$\beta$ fluorescent lines and on the Fe XXV and Fe XXVI emission complexes. Line centroid energies, intrinsic widths, flux ratios, and constraints on…

We present evidence for X-ray line emitting and absorbing gas in the nucleus of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy (BLRG), 3C 445. A 200ks Chandra LETG observation of 3C 445 reveals the presence of several highly ionized emission lines in the soft…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 J. N. Reeves , J. Gofford , V. Braito , R. Sambruna

We report the discovery of a high-ionization broad absorption line system at a redshift of z_abs=0.695 in the spectrum of the z_em=1.052 radio-quiet quasar PG 2302+039. Broad absorption with FWHM from 3,000 to 5,000 km/s is detected from C…

We present X-ray observations of the recent outburst of 2022 from the neutron star low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) source 1A 1744-361. Spectral properties of the source have been analyzed using joint NuSTAR and NICER observations. During our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-22 Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Manoj Ghising , Ruchi Tamang , Bikash Chandra Paul

The Galactic center region was observed with the XRISM X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of (RA, Dec)=(17h46m10.8s,…

XRISM has provided an unprecedented view of the emission and absorption lines in the X-ray. Notably, early results showed significant complexity to the Fe-K$\alpha$ line profile in AGN, with clear contributions from at least three emitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Scott Hagen , Chris Done , Gabriele A. Matzeu , Hirofumi Noda

Low mass X-ray binaries exhibit ionized emission from an extended disk atmosphere that surrounds the accretion disk. However, its nature and geometry is still unclear. In this work we present a spectral analysis of the extended atmosphere…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Ioanna Psaradaki , Elisa Costantini , Missagh Mehdipour , Maria Díaz Trigo

Context. The properties of the X-ray emission lines are a fundamental tool for studying the nature of the matter surrounding the neutron star and the phenomena that produce these lines. Aims. The aim of this work is to analyze the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-06 J. J. Rodes-Roca , K. L. Page , J. M. Torrejón , J. P. Osborne , G. Bernabéu

Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) observations of the extremely luminous and violent X-ray binary Cir X-1 reveal many X-ray emission lines showing broad P Cygni profiles. These are from H-like and He-like ions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. S. Schulz , W. N. Brandt

An extended XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 in 2009 detected a photo-ionized outflow with a complex absorption line velocity structure and a broad correlation of velocity with ionization parameter, shown in Pounds et…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 K. A. Pounds , S. Vaughan

We present the discovery of X-ray polarization from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z-source, GX~340$+$0, using an Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observation in March 2024. Along with the IXPE observation, we conducted…

Broad relativistic iron lines from neutron star X-ray binaries are important probes of the inner accretion disk. The X-ray reflection features can be weakened due to strong magnetic fields or very low iron abundances such as is possible in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Aditya S. Mondal , Gulab C. Dewangan , Mayukh Pahari , Ranjeev Misra , Ajit K. Kembhavi , Biplab Raychaudhuri

Gravitationally redshifted absorption lines of Fe XXVI, Fe XXV, and O VIII were inferred recently in the X-ray spectrum of the bursting neutron star EXO 0748-676. We place an upper limit on the stellar magnetic field based on the iron…

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We report on the \nustar{} observation of the newly discovered neutron star X-ray binary Swift~J1858.6-0814 taken on 23rd March 2019. The light curve of the source exhibits several large flares during some time intervals of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Aditya S. Mondal , B. Raychaudhuri , Gulab C Dewangan

We present the discovery of an outflowing ionized wind in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk 335. Despite having been extensively observed by most of the largest X-ray observatories in the last decade, this bright source was not known to host warm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. L. Longinotti , Y. Krongold , G. Kriss , J. Ely , L. Gallo , D. Grupe , S. Komossa , S. Mathur , A. Pradhan

We took advantage of the large collecting area and good timing capabilities of the EPIC cameras on-board XMM-Newton to investigate the accretion geometry onto the magnetized neutron star hosted in the high mass X-ray binary EXO 2030+375…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 C. Ferrigno , P. Pjanka , E. Bozzo , D. Klochkov , L. Ducci , A. A. Zdziarski

We present the first joint NuSTAR and NICER observations of the ultra-compact X-ray binary (UCXB) 4U 1543$-$624 obtained in 2020 April. The source was at a luminosity of $L_{0.5-50\ \mathrm{keV}} = 4.9 (D/7\ \mathrm{kpc})^{2}\times10^{36}$…

We present an analysis of the first two XRISM/Resolve spectra of the well-known Seyfert-1.5 active galactic nucleus in NGC 4151, obtained in December 2023. Our work focuses on the nature of the narrow Fe K$_{\alpha}$ emission line at 6.4…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-27 XRISM Collaboration

We present results of a 100 ks XMM observation of the Seyfert 1.5 NGC 3227. Our best-fit broadband model to the pn spectrum consists of a moderately flat (photon index 1.57) hard X-ray power-law absorbed by cold gas with N_H = 3 * 10^21…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Markowitz , J. N. Reeves , I. M. George , V. Braito , R. Smith , S. Vaughan , P. Arévalo , F. Tombesi

We present the spectral analysis of bright steady states in an outburst of the transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary (NS-LMXB) Swift J1858.6-0814 observed with NICER. We detected an ionized iron K absorption line (H-like Fe) at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-19 Kazumi Asai , Tatehiro Mihara , Kento Sakai , Aya Kubota