15 papers
Probing heartbeat oscillations from the black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 using spectral-timing analysis
Karan Akbari, Chintan Patel, Sayantan Bhattacharya +2
GRS 1915+105 is a black hole X-ray binary whose -class ("heartbeat") oscillations (50--100 s) are attributed to radiation-pressure instabilities in the inner accretion dis…
Circumstellar Disc and X-ray Variability in the Be/X-ray Binary SXP 5.05 During its 2024 Outburst
Chintan Patel, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Karan Akbari +3
Be/X-ray binaries provide a unique opportunity to study the interaction between neutron stars and circumstellar discs. SXP 5.05 is a particularly rare system, exhibiting eclipse-li…
Multiple mountains on a pulsar: implications for gravitational waves and the spin-down rate
Paritosh Verma, Sudip Bhattacharyya
A pulsar, i.e., a spinning neutron star, with a deformation could emit gravitational waves continuously. Such continuous waves, which have not been detected yet, will be very usefu…
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…
A continuous transition from Type-C Quasi Periodic Oscillations to the Heartbeat state in the Black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47
Chintan Patel, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Karan Akbari +2
We present a timing analysis of the black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) 4U 1630-47 using AstroSat observations from 10-19 March 2023, for the first time capturing a rare and rapid tran…
The 2024 outburst of the neutron star LMXB EXO 0748-676: an investigation of bursts and eclipses with AstroSat
Aromal P, Unnati Kashyap, Manoneeta Chakraborty +3
We present a detailed analysis of the Type-I (thermonuclear) X-ray bursts and eclipses observed from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) EXO 0748--676 with AstroSat durin…