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We present photometry of the Anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E1048.1-5937 in the infrared and optical, taken at Magellan and the VLT. The object is detected in the I, J and Ks bands under excellent conditions. We find that the source has varied…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Martin Durant , Marten H. van Kerkwijk

We report on an X-ray observation of the Be X-ray Binary Pulsar RX J0059.2-7138, performed by XMM-Newton in March 2014. The 19 ks long observation was carried out about three months after the discovery of the latest outburst from this Small…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Sidoli , N. La Palombara , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti

We report on the analysis of the AstroSat dataset of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, obtained during its 2019 outburst. We found coherent pulsations at $\sim 401$ Hz and an orbital solution consistent with previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-29 Rahul Sharma , Andrea Sanna , Aru Beri

We present the highly significant detection of a quasi-periodic flux modulation with a period of 22.2 min seen in the X-ray data of the Sgr A* flare of 2004 August 31. This flaring event, which lasted a total of about three hours, was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guillaume Belanger , Regis Terrier , Okkie De Jager , Andrea Goldwurm , Fulvio Melia

The accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 went into outburst from July to November in 2019 and August to October in 2022, which were observed by \textit{NICER} and \textit{NuSTAR}. In this paper, we first present the light curve for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Katherine Bruce , Sachiko Tsuruta , Andrew C. Liebmann , Marcus Teter

We report on the detection of radio emission from the accretion-powered X-ray millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We detected a ~0.8 mJy source at the position of SAX J1808.4-3658 on 1998 April…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Gaensler , B. W. Stappers , T. J. Getts

We report on a quasi-periodic variation at $\sim1$ Hz during a fast X-ray outburst of a high-mass X-ray binary MAXI J0709$-$159 / LY CMa observed by the Neutron-star interior composition explorer (NICER). The new X-ray transient MAXI…

The symbiotic X-ray binary GX 1+4 possesses a number of peculiar properties that have been studied since the early 1970s. In particular, the orbital period has been a point of debate for many years, until radial velocity measurements were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-05 Moritz Klawin , Lorenzo Ducci , M. Mirac Serim , Andrea Santangelo , Carlo Ferrigno , Enrico Bozzo

We report on the detection of a 400.99018734(1) Hz coherent signal in the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer light curves of the recently discovered X-ray transient, IGR J17498-2921. By analysing the frequency modulation caused by the orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Papitto , E. Bozzo , C. Ferrigno , T. M. Belloni , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , A. Riggio , A. D'Aì , R. Iaria

We report the results of an analysis of data obtained with the INTEGRAL, Swift and RXTE observatories during the 2010 April and September outbursts of the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431. The temporal and spectral properties of the pulsar in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Tsygankov , R. Krivonos , A. Lutovinov

We have performed a timing and spectral analysis of the X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1626.6-5156 during a major X-ray outburst in order to unveil its nature and investigate its flaring activity. Epoch- and pulse-folding techniques were used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Reig , T. Belloni , G. L. Israel , S. Campana , N. Gehrels , J. Homan

The low-mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1626-67 shows 0.048 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and red noise variability as well as coherent pulsations at the 0.130 Hz neutron star spin frequency. Power density spectra of observations made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. M. Kommers , D. Chakrabarty , W. H. G. Lewin

We present a comprehensive timing analysis on the Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 using observations from \textit{NICER} and \textit{Insight}-HXMT during the 2022--2023 outburst. The power density spectrum (PDS) of RX J0440.9+4431…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-23 P. P. Li , L. Tao , R. C. Ma , M. Y. Ge , Q. C. Zhao , S. J. Zhao , L. Zhang , Q. C. Bu , L. D. Kong , Y. L. Tuo , L. Ji , S. Zhang , J. L. Qu , S. N. Zhang , Y. Huang , X. Ma , W. T. Ye , Q. C. Shui

We report on observations of the unusual neutron-star binary system FIRST J102347.6+003841 carried out using the XMM-Newton satellite. This system consists of a radio millisecond pulsar in an 0.198-day orbit with a ~0.2 solar-mass…

We report on the discovery of a new member of the magnetar class, SGR J1935+2154, and on its timing and spectral properties measured by an extensive observational campaign carried out between July 2014 and March 2015 with Chandra and…

We present an X-ray spectral and timing analysis of two $NuSTAR$ observations of the transient Be X-ray binary SAX J2103.5+4545 during its April 2016 outburst, which was characterized by the highest flux since $NuSTAR$'s launch. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 McKinley C. Brumback , Ryan C. Hickox , Felix S. Fürst , Katja Pottschmidt , Paul Hemphill , John A. Tomsick , Jörn Wilms , Ralf Ballhausen

We present results from several years of fast optical photometry of 4U0614+091 (V1055 Orionis), a candidate ultracompact X-ray binary most likely consisting of a neutron star and a degenerate secondary. We find evidence for strong…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pasi Hakala , Phil Charles , Panu Muhli

We discuss the spectral and timing properties of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508 observed by XMM-Newton, NICER and NuSTAR during the X-ray outburst occurred in April 2018. The spectral properties of the source are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 A. Sanna , F. Pintore , A. Riggio , S. M. Mazzola , E. Bozzo , T. Di Salvo , C. Ferrigno , A. F. Gambino , A. Papitto , R. Iaria , L. Burderi

We present the spin frequency and profile evolution of the radio pulsar J1119$-$6127 following magnetar-like X-ray bursts from the system in 2016 July. Using data from the Parkes radio telescope, we observe a smooth and fast spin-down…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 S. Dai , S. Johnston , P. Weltevrede , M. Kerr , M. Burgay , P. Esposito , G. Israel , A. Possenti , N. Rea , J. Sarkissian

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