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Whilst the Vela pulsar and its associated nebula are often considered as the archetype of a system powered by a \sim10^4 year old isolated neutron star, many features of the spectral energy distribution of this pulsar wind nebula are both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 James Hinton , Stefan Funk , Robert Parsons , Stefan Ohm

We present the results of a BeppoSAX observation of the fastest pulsar known: PSR B1937+21. The ~ 200 ks observation (78.5 (34) ks MECS (LECS) exposure times) allowed us to investigate with high statistical significance both the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Nicastro , G. Cusumano , L. Kuiper , W. Becker , W. Hermsen , M. Kramer

We present the results of a BeppoSAX observation of PSR J0218+4232 which, for the first time, provides detailed information on the pulsar's temporal and spectral emission properties in the broad band 1-10 keV. We detected X-ray pulses with…

We present timing and broad-band spectral studies of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1909+07 using data from Suzaku observation during 2010 November 2-3. The pulse period of the pulsar is estimated to be 604.11+/-0.14 s. Pulsations are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-16 Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik , Biswajit Paul

We present an analysis of the 2-150 keV spectrum of the transient X-ray pulsar V0332+53 taken with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in 2004 December. We report on the detection of three cyclotron resonance features at 27, 51, and 74…

We have observed the Vela pulsar region at TeV energies using the 3.8 m imaging Cherenkov telescope near Woomera, South Australia between January 1993 and March 1995. Evidence of an unpulsed gamma-ray signal has been detected at the 5.8…

Morphologically it appears as if the Vela X PWN consists of two emission regions: whereas X-ray (1 keV) and very high energy (VHE) H.E.S.S. gamma-ray observations appear to define a cocoon type shape south of the pulsar, radio observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. C. de Jager , P. O. Slane , S. LaMassa

(Abridged) We present high-resolution Chandra X-ray observations of PSR B0833-45, the 89 ms pulsar associated with the Vela supernova remnant. We have acquired two observations separated by one month to search for changes in the pulsar and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. J. Helfand , E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

We report on a 30 ks observation of the high-mass X-ray binary pulsar OAO1657-415 performed by BeppoSAX on September 1998. The wide band spectrum is well fit by both a cutoff power law, or a power law modified by a high energy cutoff, plus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Orlandini , D. Dal Fiume , S. Del Sordo , F. Frontera , A. N. Parmar , A. Santangelo , A. Segreto

We systematically analyzed the spectra of X-ray binary pulsars observed with GINGA (Mihara 1995). A new model NPEX (Negative and Positive power-laws EXponential) was introduced t o represent the pulsar continuum. Combining the NPEX…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 Tatehiro Mihara , Kazuo Makishima , Fumiaki Nagase

We report on the discovery of hard spectral tails for energies above 10 keV in the total and pulsed spectra of anomalous X-ray pulsars 1RXS J1708-4009, 4U 0142+61 and 1E 2259+586 using RXTE PCA (2-60 keV) and HEXTE (15-250 keV) data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen , P. R. den Hartog , W. Collmar

We present an X-ray timing analysis of the Crab pulsar, PSR B0531+21, using the archival RXTE data. We have investigated the stability of the Crab pulse profile, in soft (2-20 keV) and hard (30-100 keV) X-ray energies, over the last decade…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Chetana Jain , Biswajit Paul

The 6.4 s X-ray pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937 was observed by BeppoSAX in 1997 May. This source belongs to the class of ``anomalous'' pulsars which have pulse periods in range 5-11 s, show no evidence of optical or radio counterparts, and exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Oosterbroek , A. N. Parmar , S. Mereghetti , G. L. Israel

We present an analysis of the first high-resolution spectra measured from an accretion-driven millisecond X-ray pulsar in outburst. We observed XTE J1751-305 with XMM-Newton on 2002 April 7 for approximately 35 ksec. Using a simple absorbed…

We report a detailed timing and spectral analysis of the X-ray pulsar 2S~1417-624 using the data from Insight-HXMT during the 2018 outburst. The pulse profiles are highly variable with respect to both unabsorbed flux and energy. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Q. Liu , A. Santangelo , L. D. Kong , L. Ducci , L. Ji , W. Wang , M. M. Serim , C. Güngör , Y. L. Tuo , D. Serim

We present the results of our spectral and timing analysis of the emission from the transient X-ray pulsar XTE J1946+274 based on the simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift/XRT observations in the broad energy range 0.3-79 keV carried out in June…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-12 A. S. Gorban , S. V. Molkov , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has revolutionised the $\gamma$-ray pulsar field, increasing the population to over 250 detected pulsars. The majority display spectra with exponential cutoffs in a narrow range around a few GeV. Models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-22 M. Barnard

We aim to investigate the energy-resolved pulse profile changes of the accreting X-ray pulsar V 0332+53, focusing in the cyclotron line energy range, using the full set of available NuSTAR observations. We applied a tailored pipeline to…

We present pulse phase resolved spectra of the hypergiant high mass X-ray binary GX 301-2. We observed the source in 2001 October with RXTE continuously for a total on-source time of almost 200ksec. We model the continuum with both, a…

We report on results from a one-year soft X-ray observing campaign of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar NGC 300 ULX-1 by the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) during 2018--2019. Our analysis also made use of data from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Mason Ng , Ronald A. Remillard , James F. Steiner , Deepto Chakrabarty , Dheeraj R. Pasham