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astro-ph.HE2026

Determination of neutron star radius from pulse profile modeling using profile likelihood

Vyaas Ramakrishnan, Shantanu Desai

In recent years, NICER data have been extensively used to determine neutron star masses and radii using pulse profile modeling. Pulse profile modeling is implemented with the {\tt…

astro-ph.HE2026

Probing dipole and quadrupole anisotropy in Gamma-ray bursts from Swift dataset

Vedant Mokal, Shantanu Desai

Testing the validity of the cosmological principle's assumption of large-scale isotropy remains crucial for modern cosmology. We investigate the angular distributions of gamma-ray…

astro-ph.HE2026

A MINOT-based Study of Gamma-ray emission from SPT-CL J2012-5649/Abell 3667

Siddhant Manna, Shantanu Desai

We present an analysis of the non-thermal properties of the merging galaxy cluster SPT-CL J2012-5649/Abell~3667 (, ) using the M…

astro-ph.HE2026

Study of UV line and continuum variabilities in the Broadline Seyfert 1 Galaxy ESO 141-G55

Mayukh Pahari, Veda Samhita, Harikumar N. +2

We present the results from a 3-year-long Ultraviolet monitoring campaign of the broad line Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO 141-G55 using International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE). By modellin…

astro-ph.HE2026

Black hole-Neutron star distinction based on long-term MAXI and Swift study of 42 low mass X-ray binaries

Prakhar Maheshwari, Mayukh Pahari, Anish Sarkar +1

In this study, we analysed about 13 years of publicly available data from MAXI and Swift/BAT to examine the long-term source evolution of 42 transient low-mass X-ray binaries…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectro-timing origin of large amplitude X-ray variability in GRS 1915+105 using AstroSat/LAXPC and SXT

Shree Suman, Shuvajit Khatua, Vishal Jadoliya +2

The origin of the large-amplitude, quasi-periodic X-ray flux variations in several classes of the Galactic microquasar GRS~1915+105 remains unresolved. We address this issue throug…

astro-ph.HE2026

Understanding coronal geometry in NGC 4593 using Fourier frequency-resolved covariance and time-lag spectral analysis

Shree Suman, Mayukh Pahari, Gulab Dewangan +1

Understanding disc-corona geometry through X-ray reverberation variability studies in Seyfert galaxies is crucial, yet our knowledge mostly relies on flux-averaged mean spectral an…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

The Indian Pulsar Timing Array Data Release 2: II. Customised Single-Pulsar Noise Analysis and Noise Budget

K. Nobleson, Churchil Dwivedi, Shantanu Desai +33

We present the results of customised single-pulsar noise analysis of 27 millisecond pulsars from the second data release of the Indian Pulsar Timing Array (InPTA-DR2). We model var…

astro-ph.HE2025

A test of Amati relation using HII galaxy distances

Rikiya Okazaki, Shantanu Desai

We use model-independent luminosity distances of 186 HII galaxy observations to address the circularity problem in the Amati relation for Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). For this purpose,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Measuring accretion disc properties in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 using XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, NICER and Chandra

Vishal Jadoliya, Mayukh Pahari, Sudip Bhattacharyya +1

Whether the accretion disc in the X-ray high-mode of transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSP) reaches near the neutron star surface by penetrating the magnetosphere is a crucial que…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for spatial coincidences between galaxy mergers and Fermi-LAT 4FGL-DR4 sources

Siddhant Manna, Shantanu Desai

We present a systematic search for spatial association between a high confidence sample of 3,166 morphologically selected galaxy mergers drawn from the initial convolutional neural…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for Lorentz Invariance Violation with spectral lags of GRB 190114C using profile likelihood

Vyaas Ramakrishnan, Shantanu Desai

We search for Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) by re-analyzing the spectral lag data for GRB 190114C from Fermi-GBM using frequentist analysis, where we deal with the astrophysic…

astro-ph.HE2025

Post-glitch Recovery and the Neutron Star Structure: The Vela Pulsar

Himanshu Grover, Erbil Gügercinoğlu, Bhal Chandra Joshi +4

We present a detailed analysis of the Vela pulsar's rotational behaviour using approximately 100 months of observational data spanning from September 2016 to January 2025, during w…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for spatial coincidence between magnetars and IceCube detected neutrinos

Fathima Shifa M., Shantanu Desai

We implement a search for spatial coincidence between high energy neutrinos detected by the IceCube neutrino detector (using the publicly available 10-year muon track data) and 37…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

A Stacked Analysis of GeV Gamma-Ray Emission from SPT-SZ Galaxy Clusters with 16 Years of Fermi-LAT Data

Siddhant Manna, Shantanu Desai

We report a statistically significant detection of cumulative -ray emission from a stacked sample of SPT-SZ selected galaxy clusters using 16.4 years of data from the Fermi Gamm…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation from Gamma-ray Burst rest-frame spectral lags using Profile Likelihood

Vyaas Ramakrishnan, Shantanu Desai

We reanalyze the spectral lag data for 56 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the cosmological rest frame to search for Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) using frequentist inference. For t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Search for transient gamma-ray emission from magnetar flares using Fermi-LAT

Vyaas Ramakrishnan, Shantanu Desai

We search for transient gamma-ray emission in the energy range from 0.1-10 GeV using data from the Fermi-LAT telescope in coincidence with magnetar flares. For our analysis, we loo…

astro-ph.HE2024

Probing the origin of the extended flaring branch of Z-type X-ray binaries GX 340+0 and GX 5-1 using AstroSat

Tanmoy Dutta, Mayukh Pahari, Anish Sarkar +2

`Z' type neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries typically show a `Z'-like three-branched track in their hardness intensity diagram. However, a few such `Z' sources show an additional…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Constraint on Lorentz Invariance Violation for spectral lag transition in GRB 160625B using profile likelihood

Shantanu Desai, Shalini Ganguly

We reanalyze the spectral lag data for GRB 160625B using frequentist inference in order to constrain the energy scale () of Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV). For this pur…

astro-ph.HE2024

X-ray and Radio Campaign of the Z-source GX 340+0 II: the X-ray polarization in the normal branch

Yash Bhargava, Thomas D. Russell, Mason Ng +11

We present the first X-ray polarization measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z-source, GX 3400, in the normal branch (NB) using a 200 ks observation with th…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Search for spatial coincidence between IceCube neutrinos and gamma-ray bright red dwarfs

Fathima Shifa M, Shantanu Desai

We search for a spatial coincidence between high energy neutrinos detected by the IceCube neutrino detector and ten red dwarfs which have been observed in gamma-rays. For our analy…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Effect of Magnetic Field on the Formation of Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow around Black Holes

Anish Sarkar, Mayukh Pahari

We study the effects of magnetic field in the formation of a radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) in the presence of Bremsstrahlung cooling, which facilitates the formatio…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Search for GeV gamma-ray emission from SPT-CL J2012-5649 with six years of DAMPE data

Siddhant Manna, Shantanu Desai

We search for gamma-ray emission from the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J2012-5649 in the energy range from 3 GeV to 1 TeV using the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) telescope. For ou…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Search for MeV Gamma-ray emission from TeV bright red dwarfs with COMPTEL

Niharika Shrivastava, Siddhant Manna, Shantanu Desai

The SHALON atmospheric Cherenkov telescope has detected very high energy gamma-ray emission at TeV energies from eight red dwarfs, namely, V388 Cas, V547 Cas, V780 Tau, V962 Tau, V…