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We report on our investigation of the NuSTAR and AstroSat observations along with simultaneous NICER observations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4$-$3658, obtained during its tenth outburst from 2022. The NuSTAR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Rahul Sharma , Andrea Sanna , Prince Sharma

We report on observations of four southern Anomalous X-ray Pulsars, (1RXS J170849.0-400910, 1E 1048.1-5937, 1E 1841-045 and AX J1845-0258), obtained at 1.4 GHz using the Parkes radio telescope. Radio pulsations from these sources have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Burgay , N. Rea , G. L. Israel , A. Possenti , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , N. D'Amico , L. Stella

XTE J1946+274 = GRO J1944+26 is a 15.8 s Be/X-ray pulsar discovered simultaneously in 1998 September with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) and the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Colleen. A. Wilson , Mark. H. Finger , M. J. Coe , Ignacio Negueruela

{Timing analysis of Accretion-powered Millisecond Pulsars (AMPs) is a powerful tool to probe the physics of compact objects. The recently discovered \newigrj is the 12 discovered out of the 13 AMPs known. The Rossi XTE satellite provided an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Riggio , A. Papitto , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , M. Bachetti , R. Iaria , A. D'Aì , M. T. Menna

Using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RossiXTE), astronomers have discovered that disk-accreting neutron stars with weak magnetic fields produce three distinct types of high-frequency X-ray oscillations. These oscillations are powered by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Frederick K. Lamb , Stratos Boutloukos

We present the spectral and timing analysis of the X-ray pulsar GRO J1744-28 during its 2014 outburst using data collected with the X-ray satellites Swift, INTEGRAL, Chandra, and XMM-Newton. We derived, by phase-connected timing analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 A. Sanna , A. Riggio , L. Burderi , F. Pintore , T. Di Salvo , A. D'Ai , E. Bozzo , P. Esposito , A. Segreto , F. Scarano , R. Iaria , A. F. Gambino

We present RXTE observations of two recently identified massive X-ray binaries. RX J0440.9+4431/BSD 24-491 and RX J1037.5-564/LS 1698 are confirmed as accreting Be/X-ray systems following the discovery of X-ray pulsations, with barycentric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Pablo Reig , Paul Roche

We report on the detection of pulsed, broad-band, X-ray emission from the transient source RX J0117.6-7330. The pulse period of 22 seconds is detected by the ROSAT/PSPC instrument in a 1992 Sep 30 - Oct 2 observation and by the CGRO/BATSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Macomb , M. H. Finger , B. A. Harmon , R. C. Lamb , T. A. Prince

We analysed Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the accretion-powered 401 Hz pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658, in order to precisely determine the source distance. While the fluences for the five transient outbursts observed from 1996 were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Duncan Galloway , Andrew Cumming

We have shown previously that many of the properties of persistent accretion-powered millisecond pulsars can be understood if their X-ray emitting areas are near their spin axes and move as the accretion rate and structure of the inner disk…

Rotation-powered millisecond radio pulsars have been spun up to their present spin period by a $10^8$ - $10^9$ yr long X-ray-bright phase of accretion of matter and angular momentum in a low-to-intermediate mass binary system. Recently, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Papitto , D. F. Torres , N. Rea , T. Tauris

IGR J17511-3057 is the second X-ray transient accreting millisecond pulsar discovered by INTEGRAL. It was in outburst for about a month from September 13, 2009. The broad-band average spectrum is well described by thermal Comptonization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-18 M. Falanga , L. Kuiper , J. Poutanen , D. K. Galloway , E. W. Bonning , E. Bozzo , A. Goldwurm , W. Hermsen , L. Stella

The fourth transient accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed during its February/March 2003 outburst by INTEGRAL, partly simultaneously with the XMM-Newton and RXTE satellites. We present here the first study of the 0.5-200…

On December 27th 2000 during our regular SMC monitoring program with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, strong pulsations were detected with a period of 4.78 seconds. Subsequent slew observations performed on Jan 9th and 13th across the field of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Laycock , R. H. D. Corbet , M. J. Coe , F. E. Marshall , C. Markwardt , W. Edge , .

Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars (NSs) that are thought to have been spun-up by mass accretion from a stellar companion. It is unknown whether there is a natural brake for this process, or if it continues until the centrifugal breakup…

We present the earliest X-ray observations of the 2018 outburst of XTE J1810-197, the first outburst since its 2003 discovery as the prototypical transient and radio-emitting anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP). The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern , J. A. J. Alford , T. Mihara , H. Negoro , N. Kawai , S. Dai , M. E. Lower , S. Johnston , M. Bailes , S. Oslowski , F. Camilo , H. Miyasaka , K. K. Madsen

IGR J17591$-$2342 is a 527-Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar that was discovered in outburst in 2018 August. In this paper, we present quasi-simultaneous radio and X-ray monitoring of this source during the early part of the outburst.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 T. D. Russell , N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands , J. van den Eijnden , N. V. Gusinskaia , J. W. T. Hessels , J. C. A. Miller-Jones

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that has provided constraints on parameters, with a focus on mass and radius, of five rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. While the technique can also be applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Bas Dorsman , Tuomo Salmi , Anna L. Watts , Mason Ng , Anna Bobrikova , Vladislav Loktev , Juri Poutanen , Joern Wilms

Eight Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars (AMXPs) are known to date. Optical and NIR observations carried out during quiescence give a unique opportunity to constrain the nature of the donor star and to investigate the origin of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. D'Avanzo , S. Campana , J. Casares , S. Covino , G. L. Israel , L. Stella

X-ray timing of the accretion-powered pulsations during the 2003 outburst of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1814-338 has revealed variation in the pulse time of arrival residuals. These can be interpreted in several ways, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anna L. Watts , Alessandro Patruno , Michiel van der Klis