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2016-01-01

Bahramian, Arash, Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Tremou, Evangelia, Linares, Manuel, Tudor, Vlad, Miller-Jones, James. C. A., Heinke, Craig O., Chomiuk, Laura, Strader, Jay, Altamirano, Diego, Degenaar, Nathalie, Maccarone, Thomas J., Patruno, A., Sanna, Andrea, Wijnands, Rudy, Tetarenko, Alexandra Jean

We present the results of Very Large Array, Australia Telescope Compact Array, and Swift X-ray Telescope observations of the 2015 outburst of the transient neutron star X-ray binary (NSXB), EXO 1745−248, located in the globular cluster Terzan 5. Combining (near-) simultaneous radio and X-ray...

2018-01-01

Sanna, Andrea, Bahramian, Arash, Bozzo, E., Heinke, Craig O., Wijnands, Rudy, Degenaar, Nathalie, Maccarone, T., Riggio, Alessandro, Di Salvo, Tiziana, Iaria, Rosario, Burgay, M., Possenti, Andrea, Ferrigno, C., Papitto, A., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, D'Amico, Nicolo, Burderi, Luciano, Altamirano, Diego

We report the discovery of X-ray pulsations at 105.2 Hz (9.5 ms) from the transient X-ray binary IGR J16597–3704 using NuSTAR and Swift. The source was discovered by INTEGRAL in the globular cluster NGC 6256 at a distance of 9.1 kpc. The X-ray pulsations show a clear Doppler modulation that...

2016-01-01

Bahramian, Arash, Tetarenko, Alexandra Jean, Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Tremou, Evangelia, Linares, Manuel, Tudor, Vlad, Miller-Jones, James C. A., Heinke, Craig O., Chomiuk, Laura, Strader, Jay, Altamirano, Diego, Degenaar, Nathalie, Maccarone, Thomas J., Patruno, A., Sanna, Andrea, Wijnands, Rudy

The paper “Disc-Jet Coupling in the Terzan 5 Neutron Star X-ray Binary EXO 1745−248” was published as Tetarenko et al. 2016, MNRAS, 460, 345–355. In Section 3.3 of the paper there is a minor error in equation (1). The correct equation is as follows, (logLR−logLR,c)=logξ+β(logLX−logLX,c). (1) The...

2018-01-01

Tudor, Vlad, Miller-Jones, James C. A., Knigge, C., Maccarone, Thomas J., Tauris, T. M., Bahramian, Arash, Chomiuk, Laura, Heinke, Craig O., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Strader, Jay, Plotkin, Richard M., Soria, Roberto, Albrow, M. D., Anderson, G. E., van den Berg, Maureen, Bernardini, Federico, Bogdanov, Slavko, Britt, Christopher. T., Russell, D. M., Zurek, David R.

To confirm the nature of the donor star in the ultracompact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9, we obtained optical spectra (3000–10 000 Å) with the Hubble Space Telescope / Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. We find no strong emission or absorption features in the spectrum of X9. In particular,...

2015-01-01

Degenaar, Nathalie, Wijnands, Rudy, Bahramian, Arash, Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Heinke, Craig O., Brown, E. F., Fridriksson, Joel K., Homan, Jeroen, Cackett, Edward M., Cumming, A., Miller, Jon M., Altamirano, Diego, Pooley, David

When neutron stars reside in transient X-ray binaries, their crustal layers become heated during accretion outbursts and subsequently cool in quiescence. Observing and modelling this thermal response has yielded valuable insight into the physics of neutron star crusts. However, one unresolved...

2017-01-01

Bahramian, Arash, Heinke, Craig O., Tudor, Vlad, Miller-Jones, James. C. A., Bogdanov, Slavko, Maccarone, Thomas J., Knigge, C., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Chomiuk, Laura, Strader, Jay, Garcia, Javier A., Kallman, Timothy

47 Tuc X9 is a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, and was previously thought to be a cataclysmic variable. However, Miller-Jones et al. recently identified a radio counterpart to X9 (inferring a radio/X-ray luminosity ratio consistent with black hole LMXBs), and...