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We report on INTEGRAL, Swift and XMM-Newton observations of IGR J17511-3057 performed during the outburst that occurred between March 23 and April 25, 2015. The source reached a peak flux of 0.7(2)E-9 erg/cm$^2$/s and decayed to quiescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 A. Papitto , E. Bozzo , C. Sanchez-Fernandez , P. Romano , D. F. Torres , C. Ferrigno , J. J. E. Kajava , E. Kuulkers

After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target…

IGR J00291+5934 is the fastest-known accretion-powered X-ray pulsar, discovered during a transient outburst in 2004. In this paper, we report on Integral and Swift observations during the 2015 outburst, which lasts for $\sim25$ d. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-04 V. De Falco , L. Kuiper , E. Bozzo , D. K. Galloway , J. Poutanen , C. Ferrigno , L. Stella , M. Falanga

The accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 may be a transition object between accreting X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars. We have constrained the thermal radiation from its surface through XMM-Newton X-ray observations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. O. Heinke , C. J. Deloye , P. G. Jonker , R. E. Taam , R. Wijnands

We report on the preliminary timing and spectral analysis of the High Mass X-ray Binary Pulsar SAXJ2103.5+4545 as observed with INTEGRAL during the Galactic Pla n Scan of the Core Program. The source shows a hard spectrum, being detected up…

The timing properties of the 4.45 s pulsar in the Be X-ray binary system GRO J1750-27 are examined using hard X-ray data from INTEGRAL and Swift during a Type II outburst observed during 2008. The orbital parameters of the system are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-27 S. E. Shaw , A. B. Hill , E. Kuulkers , S. Brandt , J. Chenevez , P. Kretschmar

Accreting black holes are unique tools to understand the physics under extreme gravity. While black hole X-ray binaries differ vastly in mass from AGN, their accretion and ejection flows are assumed to be essentially similar. Black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-23 V. Grinberg

We report the detection of 376.05 Hz (2.66 ms) coherent X-ray pulsations in NICER observations of a transient outburst of the low-mass X-ray binary IGR J17494-3030 in 2020 October/November. The system is an accreting millisecond X-ray…

The combination of compact objects, short period variability and peculiar chemical composition of the Ultra Compact X-ray Binaries make up a very interesting laboratory to study accretion processes and thermonuclear burning on the neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Fiocchi , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini , A. J. Bird , L. Natalucci , V. Sguera

We introduce a new method for analysing the aperiodic variability of coherent pulsations in accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars. Our method involves applying a complex frequency correction to the time-domain light curve, allowing for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Peter Bult , Marieke van Doesburgh , Michiel van der Klis

The burst-only Swift J1749.4-2807 source was discovered in a high X-ray-active state, while during an {INTEGRAL observations of the Galactic bulge on 2010 April 10. Pulsations at 518 Hz were discovered in the RXTE data, confirming previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Ferrigno , E. Bozzo , M. Falanga , L. Stella , S. Campana , T. Belloni , G. L. Israel , L. Pavan , E. Kuulkers , A. Papitto

We report the detection of X-ray pulsations from the rotation-powered millisecond-period pulsars PSR J0740+6620 and PSR J1614-2230, two of the most massive neutron stars known, using observations with the Neutron Star Interior Composition…

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

The detection of coherent X-ray pulsations at ~314 Hz (3.2 ms) classifies MAXI J1957+032 as a fast-rotating, accreting neutron star. We present the temporal and spectral analysis performed using NICER observations collected during the…

A fraction of the Ultra Luminous X-ray (ULX) sources are known to be accreting neutron stars as they show coherent X-ray pulsations with pulse periods ranging from ~1-30 seconds. While initially thought to host intermediate-mass black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Manish Kumar , Rahul Sharma , Biswajit Paul , Vikram Rana

NGC 300 ULX1 is the fourth to be discovered in the class of the ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars. Pulsations from NGC 300 ULX1 were discovered during simultaneous XMM-Newton / NuSTAR observations in Dec. 2016. The period decreased from 31.71 s…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Chandreyee Maitra , Stefania Carpano , Frank Haberl , Georgios Vasilopoulos

We report on an observation of the recently discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 performed with the RXTE-Proportional Counter Array (PCA) and Chandra-High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS). The RXTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Paizis , M. A. Nowak , J. Wilms , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , K. Ebisawa , J. Rodriguez , P. Ubertini

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 report on the broadband spectral and timing properties of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17498$-$2921 during its April 2023 outburst using data from NICER (1$-$10 keV), NuSTAR (3$-$79 keV), Insight-HXMT (2$-$150 keV), and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-06 Zhaosheng Li , L. Kuiper , Y. Y. Pan , M. Falanga , J. Poutanen , Y. P. Chen , R. X. Xu , M. Y. Ge , Y. Huang , L. M. Song , S. Zhang , F. J. Lu , S. N. Zhang

Neutron stars in close binary systems have the potential to spin up to millisecond periods due to the accretion of matter and angular momentum from their low-mass companions. In later stages of this process, they sometimes start to swing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 S. V. Karpov , Artyom S. Tanashkin , G. M. Beskin , V. L. Plokhotnichenko , Y. A. Shibanov , D. A. Zyuzin