Publications (84)
LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
M. Feroci, J. W. den Herder, E. Bozzo +245
The LOFT mission concept is one of four candidates selected by ESA for the M3 launch opportunity as Medium Size missions of the Cosmic Vision programme. The launch window is curren…
The transient jet of the galactic supersoft X-ray source RX J0925.7-4758
C. Motch
We report the discovery of a transient jet in the supersoft X-ray source RX J0925-4758 . The jet was observed in the Halpha line during a single night in June 1997 and had disappea…
VLT optical observations of the isolated neutron star RX J0420.0-5022
R. P. Mignani, C. Motch, F. Haberl +3
X-ray observations performed with ROSAT led to the discovery of 7 radio-silent isolated neutron stars (INSs) which are detected only through the relatively dim and purely thermal X…
X-ray and optical observations of 1RXS J154814.5-452845: a new intermediate polar with soft X-ray emission
F. Haberl, C. Motch, F. -J. Zickgraf
We report the identification of the ROSAT all-sky survey source 1RXS J154814.5-452845as new intermediate polar and present the results from follow-up optical and X-ray observations…
X-ray observations of the slowest known Be/X-ray pulsars RX J0146.9+6121 and X Persei
F. Haberl, L. Angelini, C. Motch +1
We present ASCA and ROSAT observations of the Be/X-ray binary pulsars RX J0146.9+6121 and X Persei between 1990 and 1996. Measuring the neutron star spin period and X-ray luminosit…
Athena+: The first Deep Universe X-ray Observatory
D. Barret, K. Nandra, X. Barcons +31
The Advanced Telescope for High-energy Astrophysics (Athena+) is being proposed to ESA as the L2 mission (for a launch in 2028) and is specifically designed to answer two of the mo…