[HTML][HTML] Ultraluminous X-ray sources

A King, JP Lasota, M Middleton - New Astronomy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The study of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has changed dramatically over the last
decade. In this review we first describe the most important observations of ULXs in various …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in understanding high-mass X-ray binaries with INTEGRALand future directions

P Kretschmar, F Fürst, L Sidoli, E Bozzo… - New Astronomy …, 2019 - Elsevier
High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way, as well as
in nearby Galaxies. Thanks to their highly variable emissions and complex phenomenology …

Cyclotron lines in highly magnetized neutron stars

R Staubert, J Trümper, E Kendziorra… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Cyclotron lines, also called cyclotron resonant scattering features are spectral features,
generally appearing in absorption, in the X-ray spectra of objects containing highly …

Optically thick envelopes around ULXs powered by accreating neutron stars

AA Mushtukov, VF Suleimanov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Magnetized neutron stars power at least some ultraluminous X-ray sources. The accretion
flow in these cases is interrupted at the magnetospheric radius and then reaches the surface …

The gas-to-extinction ratio and the gas distribution in the Galaxy

H Zhu, W Tian, A Li, M Zhang - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the relation between the optical extinction (AV) and the hydrogen column
density (NH) determined from X-ray observations of a large sample of Galactic sightlines …

Accreting Neutron Stars in 3D General-relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations: Jets, Magnetic Polarity, and the Interchange Slingshot

K Parfrey, A Tchekhovskoy - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Accreting neutron stars differ from black holes by the presence of the star's own magnetic
field, whose interaction with the accretion flow is a central component in understanding …

SMC X-3: the closest ultraluminous X-ray source powered by a neutron star with non-dipole magnetic field

SS Tsygankov, V Doroshenko, AA Lutovinov… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Aims. The magnetic field of accreting neutron stars determines their overall behavior
including the maximum possible luminosity. Some models require an above-average …

Luminosity dependence of the cyclotron line and evidence for the accretion regime transition in V 0332+ 53

V Doroshenko, SS Tsygankov… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We report on the analysis of NuSTAR observations of the Be-transient X-ray pulsar V 0332+
53 during the giant outburst in 2015 and another minor outburst in 2016. We confirm the …

The 2019 super-Eddington outburst of RX J0209. 6− 7427: detection of pulsations and constraints on the magnetic field strength

G Vasilopoulos, PS Ray, KC Gendreau… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In 2019 November, MAXI detected an X-ray outburst from the known Be X-ray binary system
RX J0209. 6− 7427 located in the outer wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud. We followed the …

An evolving jet from a strongly magnetized accreting X-ray pulsar

J van den Eijnden, N Degenaar, TD Russell… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Relativistic jets are observed throughout the Universe and strongly affect their surrounding
environments on a range of physical scales, from Galactic binary systems to galaxies and …