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We present X-ray light curves of Cygnus X-3 as measured by the recently launched AstroSat satellite. The light curve folded over the binary period of 4.8 hours shows a remarkable stability over the past 45 years and we find that we can use…

We present a detailed analysis of the X-ray/IR fast variability of the Black-Hole Transient GX 339-4 during its low/hard state in August 2008. Thanks to simultaneous high time-resolution observations made with the VLT and RXTE, we performed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 F. M. Vincentelli , P. Casella , T. J. Maccarone , P. Uttley , P. Gandhi , T. Belloni , B. De Marco , D. M. Russell , L. Stella , K. O'Brien

Highly ionized X-ray wind signatures have been found in the soft states of high-inclination Black Hole Low Mass X-ray Binaries (BHLMXBs) for more than two decades. Yet signs of a systematic evolution of the outflow itself along the outburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 M. Parra , S. Bianchi , P. -O. Petrucci , T. Bouchet , M. Shidatsu , F. Capitanio , Michal Dovciak , T. D. Russell , V. E. Gianolli , F. Carotenuto

We present an X-ray eclipse timing analysis of the transient low mass X-ray binary XTE J1710-281. We report observations of 57 complete X-ray eclipses, made with the proportional counter array detectors aboard the RXTE satellite. Using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Chetana Jain , Biswajit Paul

Recent detection of suborbital gamma-ray variability of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 279 by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is in severe conflict with established models of blazar emission. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-15 Krzysztof Nalewajko

We present here results from the X-ray timing and spectral analysis of the X-ray binary Cyg X-3 using observations from Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) on-board AstroSat. Consecutive lightcurves observed over a period of one…

Using data from eROSITA, the soft X-ray instrument aboard Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG), we report the discovery of two new hard transients, eRASSU J050810.4-660653 and eRASSt J044811.1-691318, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We also report…

We present cross-correlation studies of gamma-ray (0.1-300 GeV), X-ray (0.2-10 keV) and optical (R-band) variability of a sample of 26 blazars during 2008-2016. The light curves are from Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and the Yale-SMARTS blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Anwesh Majumder , Kaustav Mitra , Ritaban Chatterjee , C. M. Urry , C. D. Bailyn , Prantik Nandi

Spectroscopy of the low mass X-ray binary Ser X-1 using the Gran Telescopio Canarias have revealed a ~2 hr periodic variability that is present in the three strongest emission lines. We tentatively interpret this variability as due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Cornelisse , J. Casares , P. A. Charles , D. Steeghs

We present the first Swift/XRT long-term monitoring of 2S 0114+650, a wind-fed supergiant X-ray binary for which both orbital and superorbital periods are known (P_orb~11.6d and P_sup~0.8d). Our campaign, summing up to ~ 79ks, is the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-15 P. Romano , E. Bozzo , N. Islam , R. H. D. Corbet

The high-frequency bump, characterized by a frequency exceeding ~30 Hz, represents a seldom-explored time-variability feature in the power density spectrum (PDS) of black-hole X-ray binaries. In the 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010 outbursts of GX…

Circinus X-1 (Cir X-1) is a neutron star binary with an elliptical orbit of 16.6~days. The source is unique for its extreme youth, providing a key to understanding early binary evolution. However, its X-ray variability is too complex to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-15 Mayu Tominaga , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Ken Ebisawa , Teruaki Enoto , Kimitake Hayasaki

We report on 10 years of monitoring of the 8.7-s Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61 using the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). This pulsar exhibited stable rotation from 2000 March until 2006 February: the RMS phase residual for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Dib , V. M. Kaspi , F. P. Gavriil

We studied the long-term evolution of the spectral-temporal correlated properties of the black hole candidate Swift J1753.5-0127 from the onset of its outburst until 2011 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The source stayed most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Qingcui Bu , Lian Tao , Yu Lu , Shuangnan Zhang , Liang Zhang , Yue Huang , Li Chen , Jinlu Qu , Xiang Ma

Context. Many critical physical processes, such as Roche lobe overflow, strain modern simulation methods due to their durations and multidimensionality. Aims. We employ a novel method of time-domain multidimensional simulations to provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 David Dickson

We report the discovery of an eclipsing X-ray binary in M101, the first such system to be discovered outside the Local Group. Based on a sequence of 25 Chandra observations that sample a wide range of orbital phases, we find a period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jifeng Liu , Rosanne di Stefano , Jeffrey McClintock , Albert Kong , Joel Bregman , Kip Kuntz

During the third all-sky survey (eRASS3), eROSITA, the soft X-ray instrument aboard Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma, detected a new hard X-ray transient, eRASSt J040515.6-745202, in the direction of the Magellanic Bridge. We arranged follow-up…

The M31 globular cluster X-ray binary XB158 (a.k.a. Bo 158) exhibits intensity dips on a 2.78 hr period in some observations, but not others. The short period suggests a low mass ratio, and an asymmetric, precessing disk due to additional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 R. Barnard , M. R. Garcia , S. S. Murrray

LSI +61 303 is one of the few X-ray binaries with a Be star companion from which radio, X-rays and high-energy gamma-ray (GeV and TeV) emission have been observed. The nature of the high energy activity of the system is not yet fully…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 M. Chernyakova , Iu. Babyk , D. Malyshev , Ie. Vovk , S. Tsygankov , H. Takahashi , Ya. Fukazawa

Using the 9 years of continuous data now available from the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) aboard CGRO, we have measured orbital periods and produced folded lightcurves for 8 High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXB). Given the length…

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