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Using X-ray data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we carried out pulse timing analysis of the transient X-ray pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545. An outburst was detected by All Sky Monitor (ASM) October 25 1999 and reached a peak X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Baykal , M. Stark , J. Swank

The Crab nebula and its pulsar have been observed for about 3 hours with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA in January 2002 at the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope. The Crab pulsar intensity and polarization are determined at all phases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 G. Kanbach , A. Slowikowska , S. Kellner , H. Steinle

The linear polarisation of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400 - 750 nm). Time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-12 Agnieszka Słowikowska , Gottfried Kanbach , Michael Kramer , Alexander Stefanescu

We analyze the observations of the X-ray pulsar LMC X-4 performed by the INTEGRAL observatory and the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) of the RXTE observatory over a wide energy range. The observed hard X-ray flux from the source is shown to change by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

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

Glitches are important to understand the internal structure of neutron stars. They are studied using timing observations. The best studied neutron star in this respect is the Crab Pulsar. The first glitch recorded in this pulsar occurred in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 M. Vivekanand

We present the first phase-resolved study of the X-ray spectral properties of the Crab Pulsar that covers all pulse phases. The superb angular resolution of the Chandra X-ray Observatory enables distinguishing the pulsar from the…

The AstroSat mission carries several high-energy detectors meant for fast timing studies of cosmic sources. In order to carry out high precision multi-wavelength timing studies, it is essential to calibrate the absolute time stamps of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Avishek Basu , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Bhal Chandra Joshi

Context: The rotation history of the Crab Pulsar is well described by (1) a rotation frequency $\nu$ and a slowdown model that is specified by its first two time derivatives $\dot \nu$ and $\ddot \nu$, known as the secular slowdown model,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-17 M. Vivekanand

This study demonstrated the pulsar navigation capability of the CubeSat X-ray observatory NinjaSat, which is equipped with two Gas Multiplier Counters (GMCs). The GMCs are sensitive to the 2-50 keV energy band and have an effective area of…

We report on 10 yr 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 until February 2006: the RMS phase residual for a spin-down model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rim Dib , Victoria M. Kaspi , Fotis P. Gavriil

Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) All Sky Monitor observations of the transient Be star X-ray source X0726-260 suggest a 34.5 day period. This is apparently confirmed by a serendipitous RXTE Proportional Counter Array (PCA) slew detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Robin H. D. Corbet , Andrew G. Peele

From 2000 to 2010, monitoring of radio emission from the Crab pulsar at Xinjiang Observatory detected a total of nine glitches. The occurrence of glitches appears to be a random process as described by previous researches. A persistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-21 Jingbo Wang , Na Wang , Hao Tong , Jianping Yuan

Pulsars are well studied all over the electromagnetic spectrum, and the Crab pulsar may be the most studied object in the sky. Nevertheless, a high-quality optical to near-infrared spectrum of the Crab or any other pulsar has not been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-18 J. Sollerman , J. Selsing , P. M. Vreeswijk , P. Lundqvist , A. Nyholm

We have detected pulsed emission from the Vela pulsar at 2 - 30 keV during a 93 ks observation with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The RXTE pulse profile shows two peaks, that are roughly in phase with the EGRET peaks, but does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. S. Strickman , A. K. Harding , O. C. deJager

At present, there is a great worldwide interest in the development of technologies that allow information about the X-ray emission from pulsating cosmic sources to be used to obtain navigation solutions for deep-space spacecraft. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 M. G. Revnivtsev , O. E. Gadzhily , A. A. Lutovinov , S. V. Molkov , V. A. Arefiev , M. N. Pavlinsky , A. G. Tuchin

We present a new study of the X-ray spectral properties of the Crab Pulsar. The superb angular resolution of the Chandra X-ray Observatory enables distinguishing the pulsar from the surrounding nebulosity. Analysis of the spectrum as a…

We perform absolute timing of PSR B1821-24 in M28, using a 50 ksec observation with Chandra/HRC-S. We have obtained the highest signal-to-noise X-ray pulsed lightcurve of this source to date, detecting two X-ray pulses, as well as…

We review the results of a timing analysis of the observations for ten bright X-ray pulsars (with fluxes >100 mCrab in the 20-100 keV energy band) that fell within the INTEGRAL field of view from 2003 to 2007. The dependence of the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Lutovinov , S. S. Tsygankov