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We present the results of a ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter observation of the variable radio star \ls. The source has a power law spectrum with photon index 1.1 +/- 0.3 and a luminosity of 5.9 x 10^{33} erg/s in the 0.1 -2.4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 P. Goldoni , S. Mereghetti

The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has found that the neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries exhibit oscillations in the range 300-1200 Hz. Persistent emission may exhibit one or both of two features. In bursts a nearly coherent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Swank

Eclipsing binaries with M-type components are still rare objects. Strong observational biases have made that today only a few eclipsing binaries with component masses below 0.6 Msun and well-determined fundamental properties are known.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ignasi Ribas

This paper presents a quantification of the X-ray variability amplitude for 79 ASCA observations of 36 Seyfert 1 galaxies. We find that consideration of sources with the narrowest permitted lines in the optical band introduces scatter into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. J. Turner , I. M. George , K. Nandra , D. Turcan

The gamma-ray binary LS I+61 303 has been widely monitored at different wavelengths since its discovery more than sixty years ago. However, the nature of the compact object and the peculiar behavior of the system are still largely debated.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 J. Lopez-Miralles , Sara E. Motta , S. Migliari , F. Jaron

Orbits of stellar binaries are in general eccentric. These eccentricities encode information about their early lives. Here, we use thousands of main-sequence binaries from the Gaia DR3 catalog to reveal that, binaries inwards of a few AU…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yanqin Wu , Sam Hadden , Janosz Dewberry , Kareem El-Badry , Christopher D. Matzner

We explored the statistical properties of short-term X-ray variability using long-exposure {\it XMM-Newton} data during high X-ray variability phases of blazars S5 0716+714 and PKS 2155-304. In general, hardness ratio shows correlated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 Pankaj Kushwaha , Main Pal

We combine the catalogue of eclipsing binaries from the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) with the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS). The combination results in 836 eclipsing binaries that display coronal activity and is the largest sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 D. M. Szczygiel , A. Socrates , B. Paczynski , G. Pojmanski , B. Pilecki

Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems for which the spectral energy distribution (discounting the thermal stellar emission) peaks at high energies. Detected from radio to TeV gamma rays, the gamma-ray binary LS I 61 303 is highly variable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

We present ROSAT All-Sky Survey and ROSAT pointed observations (PSPC and HRI) of a complete sample of 113 bright soft X-ray AGN selected from the ROSAT Bright Source Catalog. We compare these observations in order to search for extreme…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Grupe , H. -C. Thomas , K. Beuermann

Cyclostationary processes are those signals whose have vary almost periodically in statistics. It can give rise to random data whose statistical characteristics vary periodically with time although these processes not periodic functions of…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-04 Jiang Dong

Temporal analysis of X-ray binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei have shown that hard X-rays react to variation of soft ones after a time delay. The opposite trend, or soft lag, has only been seen in a few rare Quasi-periodic Oscillations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shruti Tripathi , Ranjeev Misra , Gulab Dewangan , Shantanu Rastogi

We report the results of WBVR photometry of the massive close x-ray binary V1341 Cyg=Cyg X-2 in 1986-1992. In the "off" state the amplitudes of the periodic component of light variations lie in the $0^{m}.265 - 0^{m}.278$ and $0^{m}.290 -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-23 A. N. Sazonov

We present the light curve variations of the two active binaries with hot subdwarf component. According to the brightness variations outside of the eclipses, the giant components of the systems are chromospherically active stars. The dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Esin Sipahi , Serdar Evren

We report on the full analysis of a Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) Proportional Counter Array (PCA) monitoring of the {\gamma}-ray binary system LS I +61 303. The data set covers 42 contiguous cycles of the system orbital motion.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jian Li , Diego F. Torres , Shu Zhang , Yupeng Chen , Daniela Hadasch , Paul S. Ray , Peter Kretschmar , Nanda Rea , Jianmin Wang

Rotational variables are stars that vary in brightness due to star spots modulated by rotation. They are probes of stellar magnetism, binarity, and evolution. Phillips et al. (2023) explored distinct populations of ~50,000 high-amplitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 Jack Stethem , Christopher S. Kochanek , Anya Phillips , Lyra Cao , Marc Pinsonneault

Preliminary results of a systematic study on the simultaneous optical-to-X-rays variability in blazars are presented. Data from Swift observations of four bright gamma-ray blazars (3C 279, ON+231, S5 0716+71, PKS 2155-304) have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Foschini

Be/X-ray binaries are the most numerous group of high-mass X-ray binaries. Their long-term optical and infrared variability reflects the evolution of the circumstellar disk around the luminous companion. This variability manifests…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 P. Reig , D. Blinov , A. Tzouvanou

We show that the rms-flux relation recently discovered in the X-ray light curves of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and X-ray binaries (XRBs) implies that the light curves have a formally non-linear, exponential form, provided the rms-flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Uttley , I. M. McHardy , S. Vaughan

We present an analysis of four Chandra observations of the 45 Myr old DS Tuc binary system. We observed X-ray variability of both stars on timescales from hours to months, including two strong X-ray flares from star A. The implied flaring…