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We report the results from a detailed timing and spectral study of transient X-ray pulsars, 4U 1901+03 during its 2019 outburst. We performed broadband spectroscopy in the 1-70 keV energy band using four observations made with Swift and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Aru Beri , Tinku , Nirmal K. Iyer , Chandreyee Maitra

We present timing and spectral analysis of data from an observation of the High Mass X-ray Binary pulsar 4U 1907+09 with the LAXPC instrument onboard AstroSat. The light curve consisted of a flare at the beginning of the observation,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-07 Varun , Pragati Pradhan , Chandreyee Maitra , Harsha Raichur , Biswajit 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

We analyze the observations of the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63 with the RXTE and INTEGRAL observatories in a wide X-ray (3-100 keV) energy band during its intense outbursts in 1999 and 2004. The energy of the fundamental harmonic of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov , E. M. Churazov , R. A. Sunyaev

We have performed pulse phase resolved spectroscopy of the Cyclotron Resonance Scattering Features (CRSF) of some bright accretion powered X-ray pulsars like 1A 1118-61, Vela X-1, A0535+26, XTE J1946+274, 4U 1907+09, 4U 1626-67 and GX 301-2…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Chandreyee Maitra , Biswajit Paul

We have discovered a ~29 keV Cyclotron Resonant Scattering Feature (CRSF) in the X-Ray spectrum of 4U 0352+309 (X Per) using observations taken with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. 4U 0352+309 is a persistent low luminosity (L_x =…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. Coburn , W. A. Heindl , D. E. Gruber , R. E. Rothschild , R. Staubert , J. Wilms , I. Kreykenbohm

We present timing and broad-band spectral studies of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1909+07 using data from Suzaku observation during 2010 November 2-3. The pulse period of the pulsar is estimated to be 604.11+/-0.14 s. Pulsations are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-16 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik , Biswajit Paul

We present pulse phase averaged spectra of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1538-52/QV Nor. Observations of this persistent accreting pulsar were made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). We study the variability of cyclotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-26 J. J. Rodes-Roca , J. M. Torrejón , J. G. Bernabéu

We have discovered a third harmonic cyclotron resonance scattering feature (CRSF) in observations of the recent outburst of 4U 0115+63 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The spectrum in a narrow pulse phase range shows CRSFs at…

Using a consistent set of models, we parameterized the X-ray spectra of all accreting pulsars in the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer database which exhibit Cyclotron Resonance Scattering Features (CRSFs, or cyclotron lines). These sources in…

We investigate the cyclotron resonant scattering features (CRSFs) of the accreting X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 and significantly detect the 29 keV cyclotron line features in the hard X-ray averaged spectroscopy studies based on the recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-29 Qi Liu , Wei Wang , Wen Yang , Xiao Chen , Hanji Wu

We aim to investigate the energy-resolved pulse profile changes of the accreting X-ray pulsar V 0332+53, focusing in the cyclotron line energy range, using the full set of available NuSTAR observations. We applied a tailored pipeline to…

Seventeen accreting neutron star pulsars, mostly high mass X-ray binaries with half of them Be-type transients, are known to exhibit Cyclotron Resonance Scattering Features (CRSFs) in their X-ray spectra, with characteristic line energies…

High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest objects of our Galaxy in the high energy domain (0.1-100 keV). Despite our relatively good knowledge of their basic emission mechanisms, the complex problem of understanding their time and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Ferrigno , M. Falanga , E. Bozzo , P. A. Becker , D. Klochkov , A. Santangelo

We report a detailed timing and spectral analysis of the X-ray pulsar 2S~1417-624 using the data from Insight-HXMT during the 2018 outburst. The pulse profiles are highly variable with respect to both unabsorbed flux and energy. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Q. Liu , A. Santangelo , L. D. Kong , L. Ducci , L. Ji , W. Wang , M. M. Serim , C. Güngör , Y. L. Tuo , D. Serim

We report the first report on cyclotron line studies with the LAXPC instrument onboard AstroSat of the High mass X-ray Binary pulsar 4U 1538-52. During the observation of source which spanned about one day with a net exposure of 50 ks,the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Varun , Chandreyee Maitra , Pragati Pradhan , Harsha Raichur , Biswajit Paul

Aims. We investigate the long-term evolution of the Cyclotron Resonance Scattering Feature (CRSF) in the spectrum of the binary X-ray pulsar Her X-1 and present evidence of a true long-term decrease in the centroid energy Ecyc of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-10 R. Staubert , D. Klochkov , J. Wilms , K. Postnov , N. I. Shakura , R. E. Rothschild , F. Fürst , F. A. Harrison

We present the results of the pulse-amplitude-resolved spectroscopy of the accreting pulsar V 0332+53 using the NuSTAR observations of the source in 2015 and 2016. We investigate the dependence of the energy of the cyclotron resonant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Vadim Vybornov , Viktor Doroshenko , Rürdiger Staubert , Andrea Santangelo

We present analysis of 4U 1626-67, a 7.7 s pulsar in a low-mass X-ray binary system, observed with the hard X-ray detector of the Japanese X-ray satellite Suzaku in March 2006 for a net exposure of \sim88 ks. The source was detected at an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 W. B. Iwakiri , Y. Terada , T. Mihara , L. Angelini , M. S. Tashiro , T. Enoto , S. Yamada , K. Makishima , M. Nakajima , A. Yoshida

We have studied the timing and spectral properties of the BeXB 4U 1901+03 during the 2019 outburst using \textit{NuSTAR}, \textit{Swift}, and \textit{NICER} observations. Flares are in all observations and were of tens to hundreds of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Binay Rai , Bikash Chandra Paul
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