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We report the X-ray observations of the Galactic X-ray transient source GRS 1915+105 with the PPCs of the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment(IXAE) onboard the Indian satellite IRS-P3 during 1997 June - August, which have revealed the…

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After 6 years of quiescence, Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) 4U 0142+61 entered an active phase in 2006 March that lasted several months. During the active phase, several bursts were detected, and many aspects of the X-ray emission changed. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Fotis P. Gavriil , Rim. Dib , Victoria M. Kaspi

We have used the CANGAROO-III imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to observe the high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object PKS 2155-304 between 2006 July 28 (MJD 53944) and August 2, triggered by the H.E.S.S. report that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 III collaboration , Y. Sakamoto , K. Nishijima , T. Mizukami , E. Yamazaki , J. Kushida

Starting in 2006, Swift has been targeting a region of ~21'X21' around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) with the onboard X-ray telescope. The short, quasi-daily observations offer an unique view of the long-term X-ray behavior of the supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Degenaar , J. M. Miller , J. Kennea , N. Gehrels M. T. Reynolds , R. Wijnands

The gamma-ray burst of 1997 February 28 was localized using the arrival-time analysis method with the Ulysses, BeppoSAX, and WIND spacecraft. The result is a plus-or-minus 31.5 arcsec (3 sigma) wide annulus of possible arrival directions…

New radio observations of the radio-jet X-ray binary Circinus X-1 over nearly an entire 16.6-day orbit are presented. The source continues to undergo radio flaring in the phase interval 0.0 - 0.2 and appears to be brightening since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. P. Fender

The X-ray pulsar GX 1+4 was observed with the RXTE satellite for a total of 51ks between 1996 July 19 - 21. During this period the flux decreased smoothly from an initial mean level of ~ 6 X 10^36 erg/s to a minimum of ~ 4 X 10^35 erg/s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. K. Galloway , A. B. Giles , J. G. Greenhill , M. C. Storey

The blazar 3C 279, one of the brightest identified extragalactic objects in the gamma-ray sky, underwent a flare of a factor 10 amplitude in gamma-rays towards the end of a 3-week pointing by CGRO, in 1996 January-February. The flare peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. E. Wehrle , E. Pian , C. M. Urry , L. Maraschi , G. Ghisellini , R. C. Hartman

FRB180301 is one of the most actively repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) which has shown polarization angle changes in its radio burst emission, an indication for their likely origin in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetized neutron star.…

The transient X-ray source GS 1826-238 was monitored during five different observing periods between August 1996 and October 1998 with the BeppoSAX Wide Field Camera instrument in the framework of a deep observation of the Galactic Center…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Ubertini , A. Bazzano , M. Cocchi , L. Natalucci , J. Heise , J. M. Muller , J. J. M. in 't Zand

We discuss flaring variability of radio emission of microquasars, measured in monitoring programs with the RATAN-600 radio telescope. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei A. Trushkin , Nikolaj N. Bursov , Nikolaj A. Nizhelskij

Simultaneous HESS/CHANDRA/optical observations were performed on the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 in the night of July 29-30 2006, when the source underwent its second major gamma-ray outburst in Summer 2006. This event took place about 44…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 HESS Collaboration , F. Aharonian

X-ray flashes are detected in the Wide Field Cameras on BeppoSAX in the energy range 2-25 keV as bright X-ray sources lasting of the order of minutes, but remaining undetected in the Gamma Ray Bursts Monitor on BeppoSAX. They have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Heise , Jean in 't Zand , Marc Kippen , Peter Woods

The well studied blazar 3C 279 underwent a giant $\gamma$-ray outburst in 2014 March-April. The measured $\gamma$-ray flux (1.21 $\pm$ 0.10 $\times$ 10$^{-5}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ in 0.1-300 GeV energy range) is the highest detected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Vaidehi S. Paliya , S. Sahayanathan , C. S. Stalin

Observations of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) with Swift produced the initially surprising result that many bursts have large X-ray flares superimposed on the underlying afterglow. The flares were sometimes intense, had rapid rise and decay…

We present X-ray light curves (1.5-12 keV) for fifteen gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the All-Sky Monitor on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. We compare these soft X-ray light curves with count rate histories obtained by the…

We report on Chandra, RXTE, Swift/BAT and MAXI observations of a ~1 day X-ray flare and subsequent outburst of a transient X-ray source observed in October-November 2011 in the globular cluster Terzan 5. We show that the source is the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Altamirano , L. Keek , A. Cumming , G. R. Sivakoff , C. O. Heinke , R. Wijnands , N. Degenaar , J. Homan , D. Pooley

Aims. The Crab nebula displayed a large gamma-ray flare on September 18, 2010. To more closely understand the origin of this phenomenon, we analyze the INTEGRAL (20-500 keV) and FERMI (0.1-300 GeV) data collected almost simultaneously…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Balbo , R. Walter , C. Ferrigno , P. Bordas

We present two years of intense Swift monitoring of three SFXTs, IGR J16479-4514, XTE J1739-302, and IGR J17544-2619 (since October 2007). Out-of-outburst intensity-based X-ray (0.3-10keV) spectroscopy yields absorbed power laws with by…

The flux and spectrum of the black hole candidate GX339-4 has been monitored by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory (CGRO) since the observatory became operational in May 1991. Between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. C. Rubin , B. A. Haron , W. S. Paciesas , C. R. Robinson , S. N. Zhang , G. J. Fishman