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The pulsations of X-ray pulsars carry information about the accretion and magnetic field geometry. Here we present a study and classification of energy resolved pulse profiles of a sample of X-ray pulsars, focusing on high-mass X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Jaime Alonso-Hernandez , Felix Fuerst , Peter Kretschmar , Isabel Caballero , Amy Joyce

We report on \textit{NuSTAR} observations of the well-known wind-accreting X-ray pulsar \source\ during a strong spin-up episode that took place in January-March 2019. A high luminosity of the source in a most recent observation allowed us…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Armin Nabizadeh , Juhani Mönkkönen , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Victor Doroshenko , Sergey V. Molkov , Juri Poutanen

We have investigated the long-term evolution of individual anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) with relatively well constrained X-ray luminosity and rotational properties. In the frame of the fallback disc model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-29 Onur Benli , Unal Ertan

Dependences of the X-ray luminosity (L$_x$) of single pulsars, due to ejection of relativistic particles, on electric field intensity, rate of rotational energy loss (\.{E}), magnetic field, period, and the energy spectra of the ejected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. H. Guseinov , A. Ankay , S. O. Tagieva , M. O. Taskin

A plausible model for the Crab Nebula is one in which a particle dominated, highly relativistic wind from the pulsar passes through a shock front in which the particles attain a power law energy distribution. The electrons and positrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roger A. Chevalier

The X-ray and gamma-ray spectrum of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars is investigated in a model for acceleration and pair cascades on open field lines above the polar caps. Although these pulsars have low surface magnetic fields, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Vladimir V. Usov , Alex G. Muslimov

We revisit the apparent correlation between soft X-ray band photon index and spin-down rate nudot previously reported for Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) by Marsden & White (2001). Our analysis, improved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Victoria M. Kaspi , Kristen Boydstun

The $Fermi$-LAT has revealed that rotation powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a major contributor to the Galactic $\gamma$-ray source population. Such pulsars may also be important in modeling the quiescent state of several low mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , R. E. Taam

We study the relation between luminosity and spin-period change in X-ray binary pulsars using long-term light curve obtained by the MAXI/GSC all-sky survey and pulse period data from the Fermi/GBM pulsar project. X-ray binaries, consisting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-17 Mutsumi Sugizaki , Tatehiro Mihara , Motoki Nakajima , Kazutaka Yamaoka

We present and interpret several new X-ray features of the X-ray pulsar PSR J1838-0655. The X-ray data are obtained from the archival data of CHANDRA, RXTE}, and SUZAKU. We combine all these X-ray data and fit the spectra with different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Lupin Chun-Che Lin , Jumpei Takata , Chorng-Yuan Hwang , Jau-Shian Liang

Soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are slowly rotating, isolated neutron stars that sporadically undergo episodes of long-term flux enhancement (outbursts) generally accompanied by the emission of short…

Well-motivated extensions of the standard model predict ultra-light and fundamental pseudo-scalar particles (e.g., axions or axion-like particles: ALPs). Similarly to the Primakoff-effect for axions, ALPs can mix with photons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Jhilik Majumdar , Francesca Calore , Dieter Horns

The detection of optical/infrared counterparts to Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) has greatly increased our understanding of these systems. Models for the AXP phenomenon were based upon their X-ray emission, and all but the magnetar model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Durant , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Ferdi Hulleman

High-resolution X-ray spectra of O-type stars revealed less wind absorption than expected from smooth winds with conventional mass-loss rates. Various solutions have been proposed, including porous winds, optically thick clumps or an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Hervé , G. Rauw , Y. Nazé , A. Foster

X-ray pulsars shine thanks to the conversion of the gravitational energy of accreted material to X-ray radiation. The accretion rate is modulated by geometrical and hydrodynamical effects in the stellar wind of the pulsar companions and/or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 Roland Walter , Carlo Ferrigno

Radiation of X-ray bursts and of accretion shocks in weakly magnetized neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries is produced in plane-parallel atmospheres dominated by electron scattering. We first discuss polarization produced by single…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 Juri Poutanen

Gamma-ray loud X-ray binaries are binary systems that show non-thermal broadband emission from radio to gamma rays. If the system comprises a massive star and a young non-accreting pulsar, their winds will collide producing broadband…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-23 V. Zabalza , V. Bosch-Ramon , J. M. Paredes

The properties of X-ray radiation from the polar caps predicted by the radio pulsar models depend on the surface chemical composition, magnetic field and star's mass and radius as well as on the cap temperature, size and position. Fitting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 G. G. Pavlov , V. E. Zavlin

The energy source powering the X-ray emission from anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) is still uncertain. In one scenario, the presence of an ultramagnetized neutron star, or ``magnetar'', with B on the order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rosalba Perna , Jeremy Heyl , Lars Hernquist , Adrienne Juett , Deepto Chakrabarty

A BeppoSAX survey of bright Neutron Star (NS) systems in globular clusters, together with the results obtained on Galactic LMXRB, suggests that a two-component model is a reasonable description of the 0.1-200 keV spectra. At energies lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Guainazzi , A. N. Parmar , T. Oosterbroek