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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

IGR~J18245--2452/PSR J1824--2452I is one of the rare transitional accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars, showing direct evidence of switches between states of rotation powered radio pulsations and accretion powered X-ray pulsations, dubbed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 V. De Falco , L. Kuiper , E. Bozzo , C. Ferrigno , J. Poutanen , L. Stella , M. Falanga

We report on the discovery of a new pulsating X-ray source during Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of a low galactic latitude field centered at RA (J2000) = 19 hr 05 m 43 s and Dec (J2000) = +08 deg 58 arcmin 48 arcsec. Significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Marsden , D. E. Gruber , W. A. Heindl , M. R. Pelling , R. E. Rothschild

I present an observational review of the five currently known accretion-driven millisecond X-ray pulsars. A prominent place in this review is given to SAX J1808.4-3658; it was the first such system discovered and currently four outbursts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rudy Wijnands

We report the discovery of burst oscillations at the spin frequency in ten thermonuclear bursts from the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) IGR J17511-3057. The burst oscillation properties are, like those from the persistent AMXPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Altamirano , A. Watts , M. Linares , C. B. Markwardt , T. Strohmayer , A. Patruno

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 accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1807-294 was observed by XMM-Newton on March 22, 2003 after its discovery on February 21, 2003 by RXTE. The source was detected in its bright phase with an observed average count rate of 33.3 cts/s in…

Since the discovery of the accreting millisecond pulsar XTE J1814-338 a total of 27 thermonuclear bursts have been observed from the source with the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) onboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tod E. Strohmayer , Craig B. Markwardt , Jean H. Swank , Jean in 't Zand

We present the discovery of 163.65 Hz X-ray pulsations from IGR J17062-6143 in the only observation obtained from the source with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. This detection makes IGR J17062-6143 the lowest-frequency accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Tod E. Strohmayer , Laurens Keek

In 1996 during Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of SGR 1900+14, the 89-s X-ray pulsar XTE J1906+09 was discovered. As a result of monitoring campaigns of SGR 1900+14, XTE J1906+09 was also monitored regularly in 1996…

Since the initial discoveries with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in 1996 of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) and burst oscillations in a number of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) containing low-magnetic-field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. van der Klis

In 2003 a previously unpulsed Einstein and ROSAT source cataloged as soft and dim (Lx of few 10^33 ergs) thermal emitting object, namely XTE J1810-197, was identified as the first unambiguous transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar. Two years…

MAXI J1816-195 is a newly discovered accreting millisecond pulsar with prolific thermonuclear bursts, detected during its outburst in 2022 June by Insight-HXMT and NICER. During the outburst, Insight-HXMT detected 73 bursts in its peak and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Yu-Peng Chen , Shu Zhang , Long Ji , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Peng-Ju Wang , Ling-Da Kong , Zhi Chang , Jing-Qiang Peng , Qing-Cang Shui , Jian Li , Lian Tao , Ming-Yu Ge , Jin-Lu Qu

IGR J18245-2452 is the fifteenth discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar and the first source of this class showing direct evidence for transition between accretion and rotational powered emission states. These swing provided the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 C. Ferrigno , E. Bozzo , A. Papitto , N. Rea , L. Pavan , S. Campana , M. Wieringa , M. Filipovic , M. Falanga , L. Stella

We present a phase-coherent timing analysis of the intermittent accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1748.9-2021. A new timing solution for the pulsar spin period and the Keplerian binary orbital parameters was achieved by phase connecting all…

In order to probe the activity of the inner disk flow and its effect on the neutron star surface emissions, we carried out the timing analysis of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of the millisecond X-ray pulsar XTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fan Zhang , J. L. Qu , C. M. Zhang , W. Chen , T. P. Li

X-ray timing of neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) with RXTE has since 1996 revealed several distinct high-frequency phenomena. Among these are oscillations during thermonuclear (type-I) bursts, which (in addition to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Duncan Galloway

IGR J17591-2342 is a recently INTEGRAL discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar that went into outburst around July 21, 2018. To better understand the physics acting in these systems during the outburst episode we performed detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 L. Kuiper , S. S. Tsygankov , M. Falanga , I. A. Mereminskij , D. K. Galloway , J. Poutanen , Z. Li

We present the first detection of X-ray coherent pulsations from the transitional millisecond pulsar XSS J12270-4859, while it was in a sub-luminous accretion disk state characterized by a 0.5-10 keV luminosity of 5E33 erg/s (assuming a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-24 A. Papitto , D. de Martino , T. M. Belloni , M. Burgay , A. Pellizzoni , A. Possenti , D. F. Torres

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