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most citedDiscovery of a short orbital period in the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient IGR J16479-4514

47 citations · 295 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book

Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395

The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…

astro-ph.HE2025

Intriguing nature of AM Her type candidate CXOU J204734.8+300105

Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul +2

The detection and characterization of periodic X-ray signals are crucial for identifying new compact objects and studying the mechanisms powering their emission. We report on the t…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Sidebands to mHz QPOs in 4U 162667 in the second spin-down state

Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul +1

We report results from an Target-of-Opportunity (ToO) observation of 4U 162667, performed on 2023 May 18, soon after the discovery of torque reversal to spin-down in…

astro-ph.HE2024

The 2021 outburst of 2S 1417-624 revisited with AstroSat

Chetana Jain

This work presents the first ever broadband (0.7-25.0 keV) timing and spectral analysis of Be-HMXB 2S 1417-624 during its 2021 outburst. Using AstroSat observations, coherent pulsa…

astro-ph.HE2024

A comprehensive study of orbital evolution of LMC X-4: Existence of a second derivative of the orbital period

Chetana Jain, Rahul Sharma, Biswajit Paul

We report here results from pulse arrival time delay analysis of the eclipsing high mass X-ray binary pulsar LMC X-4 using observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, X…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

AstroSat observation of the magnetar SGR J18300645 during its first detected X-ray outburst

Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul +1

We present here timing and spectral analyses of SGR J18300645 based on an AstroSat observation carried out on 2020 October 16, about a week after the onset of its first detected…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 13 cited

4U 1626-67 Returns to Spin-Down: Timing features toe the line

Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul

We present a comprehensive analysis of X-ray pulsar 4U 1626-67 during its current spin-down (2SD) state, following a recent torque reversal. Since its discovery, this ultra-compact…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Torque reversal and cyclotron absorption feature in HMXB 4U 1538-522

Prince Sharma, Chetana Jain, Anjan Dutta

We present a comprehensive timing and spectral analysis of the HMXB 4U 1538-522 by using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observatory data. Using three archived o…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 15 cited

Broadband mHz QPOs and spectral study of LMC X4 with AstroSat

Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain, Ketan Rikame +1

We report the results of broadband timing and spectral analysis of data from an AstroSat observation of the High Mass X-ray binary LMC X4. The Large Area X-ray Proportional Coun…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 7 cited

Eclipse Timings of the LMXB XTE J1710-281 : Discovery of a third orbital period glitch

Chetana Jain, Rahul Sharma, Biswajit Paul

We present an updated measurement of orbital period evolution of LMXB XTE J1710-281 by using eclipse timing technique. Using data obtained with XMM-Newton, Suzaku, RXTE, Chandra an…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 3 cited

Broad-band spectral analysis of LMXB 2S 0921-63 with Suzaku

Prince Sharma, Chetana Jain, Anjan Dutta

We present the broad-band spectral analysis of the low-mass X-ray binary 2S 0921-63 by using the Suzaku archival data covering the orbital phase between 0.31 and 1.16 during four c…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 3 cited

Change in spin-down rate and detection of emission line in HMXB 4U 2206+54 with AstroSat observation

Chetana Jain, Ajay Yadav, Rahul Sharma

This work presents timing and spectral analysis of 4U 2206+54 using data obtained from LAXPC instrument onboard India's AstroSat mission. This source was observed with AstroSat in…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

Discovery of cyclotron and narrow Fe K lines in HMXB GRO J1750-27

Prince Sharma, Chetana Jain, Anjan Dutta

We report on timing and spectral analysis of transient Be X-ray pulsar GRO J1750-27 by using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observation from September 2021. Thi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

Timing and Spectral Analysis of HMXB OAO 1657-415 with NuSTAR

Prince Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain +1

This work presents a comprehensive timing and spectral analysis of high-mass X-ray binary pulsar, OAO 1657-415 by using the observation made with Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Ar…

astro-ph.HE2021

Broad-band spectral study of LMXB black hole candidate 4U 1957+11 with NuSTAR

Prince Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain +2

We present here the results of broadband spectral analysis of low-mass X-ray binary and a black hole candidate 4U 1957+11. The source was observed nine times with the Nuclear Spect…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 10 cited

Broad-band spectral analysis of LMXB XTE J1710-281 with Suzaku

Prince Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain +1

This work presents the broad-band time-averaged spectral analysis of neutron star low-mass X-ray binary, XTE J1710-281 by using the Suzaku archival data. The source was in a hard o…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 8 cited

Study of the reflection spectra of SAX J1748.9-2021

Rahul Sharma, Chetana Jain, Anjan Dutta

We report the spectral analysis of accretion powered millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1748.9-2021 from the NuSTAR observation made during its 2015 outburst. The spectra displayed a br…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 15 cited

Spectral properties of MXB 1658-298 in the low/hard and high/soft state

Rahul Sharma, Abdul Jaleel, Chetana Jain +3

We report results from a broadband spectral analysis of the low mass X-ray binary MXB 1658-298 with the Swift/XRT and NuSTAR observations made during its 2015-2017 outburst. The so…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 23 cited

Indication of a massive circumbinary planet orbiting the Low Mass X-ray Binary MXB 1658-298

Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul, Rahul Sharma +2

We present an X-ray timing analysis of the transient X-ray binary MXB 1658-298, using data obtained from the RXTE and XMM-Newton observatories. We have made 27 new mid eclipse time…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 27 cited

Torque reversals and pulse profile of the pulsar 4U 1626-67

Aru Beri, Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul +1

We review the pulse profile evolution of the unique accretion powered X-ray pulsar 4U 1626-67 over the last 40 years since its discovery. This pulsar showed two distinct eras of st…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 12 cited

Pulse profile stability of the Crab pulsar

Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul

We present an X-ray timing analysis of the Crab pulsar, PSR B0531+21, using the archival RXTE data. We have investigated the stability of the Crab pulse profile, in soft (2-20 keV)…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 5 cited

Search for pulsations in the LMXB EXO 0748-676

Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul

We present here results from our search for X-ray pulsations of the neutron star in the low mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676 at a frequency near a burst-oscillation frequency of 44.7…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 24 cited

Eclipse Timings of the LMXB XTE J1710-281: Orbital Period Glitches

Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul

We present an X-ray eclipse timing analysis of the transient low mass X-ray binary XTE J1710-281. We report observations of 57 complete X-ray eclipses, made with the proportional c…

astro-ph.HE2010

New measurement of orbital and spin period evolution of the Accretion Disk Corona source 4U 1822-37

Chetana Jain, Biswajit Paul, Anjan Dutta

4U 1822-37 is a Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB) system with an Accretion Disk Corona. We have obtained 16 new mid-eclipse time measurements of this source during the last 13 years usi…