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astro-ph.HE2026

Importance and Science Outcomes from the first XSPECT/XPoSat Workshop

Anuj Nandi, Rwitika Chatterjee, V. P. Shyam Prakash +49

This paper summarizes the science outcomes of the first Workshop on Data Analysis using observations from the XSPECT payload onboard the XPoSat, which brought together early-career…

astro-ph.HE2026

Tracing the outburst decay of soft X-ray transients Aql X-1 and 4U 1608-52 with XSPECT

Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek Kumar Agrawal, V. P. Shyam Prakash +2

XSPECT instrument on-board XPoSat mission is a soft X-ray spectrometer sensitive in the energy band 0.815 keV. XSPECT has observed several bright neutron star low mass X-ray bin…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Spectral nature of Sco X-1 observed using the X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timing (XSPECT) payload on-board XPoSat

V. P. Shyam Prakash, Vivek K. Agrawal, Rwitika Chatterjee +3

Scorpius X-1 is the brightest and first discovered X-ray source in the sky. Studying this source in the low-energy band has been challenging in the past due to its high brightness.…

astro-ph.HE2024

Simultaneous X-ray and optical polarization observations of the blazar Mrk 421

Athira M. Bharathan, C. S. Stalin, S. Sahayanathan +7

We present near-simultaneous X-ray and optical polarization measurements in the high synchrotron peaked (HSP) blazar Mrk 421. The X-ray polarimetric observations were carried out u…

astro-ph.HE2024

The first detection of X-ray polarization in a newly discovered Galactic transient Swift\,J151857.0-572147

Santanu Mondal, S. Pujitha Suribhatla, Kaushik Chatterjee +2

We study the spectro-polarimetric properties of a newly discovered black hole X-ray binary Swift\,J151857.0-572147 jointly using {\it IXPE} and {\it NuSTAR} observations during Mar…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations

Santanu Mondal, Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek K. Agrawal +1

We conducted a study on the X-ray polarization properties of MCG-5-23-16 by analyzing long-term monitoring data from {\it NuSTAR} jointly with {\it IXPE} observations made in May a…

astro-ph.HE2024

First detection of X-ray polarization in Galactic ULX pulsar Swift J0243.66124 with {\it IXPE}

Seshadri Majumder, Rwitika Chatterjee, Kiran M. Jayasury +2

We report the results of first ever spectro-polarimetric analyses of the Galactic ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6 during the 2023 outburst using quasi-simultaneous…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Detection of X-ray Polarization in the High Synchrotron Peaked Blazar 1ES 1959+650

Athira M. Bharathan, C. S. Stalin, Rwitika Chatterjee +4

We report the measurement of X-ray polarization in the high synchrotron peaked blazar 1ES 1959+650. Of the four epochsof observations from the {\it Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explor…

astro-ph.HE2023

X-ray polarization observations of IC 4329A with IXPE: Constraining the geometry of the X-ray corona

Indrani Pal, C. S. Stalin, Rwitika Chatterjee +1

X-ray polarimetry is a powerful tool to probe the geometry of the hot X-ray corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Here, we present our results on the characterisation of the X-ra…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 21 cited

Spectro-polarimetric view of bright atoll source GX 9+9 using IXPE and AstroSat

Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek K. Agrawal, Kiran M. Jayasurya +1

We have carried out the first spectro-polarimetric study of the bright NS-LMXB GX 9+9 using IXPE and AstroSat observations. We report a significant detection of polarization of $1.…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Detection of significant X-ray polarization from transient NS-LMXB XTE J1701-462 with IXPE and its implication on the coronal geometry

Kiran M. Jayasurya, Vivek K. Agrawal, Rwitika Chatterjee

In this paper, we performed a spectro-polarimetric analysis of the transient NS-LMXB XTE J1701-462 using IXPE, NICER, and NuSTAR data during its 2022 outburst. We report the signif…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 4 cited

Long-term XMM-Newton view of magnetar CXOU J010043.1721134: Comprehensive spectral and temporal results

Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek K. Agrawal, Anuj Nandi

We present an in-depth analysis and results of eleven XMM-Newton datasets, spanning 2000 to 2016, of the anomalous X-ray Pulsar CXOU J010043.1721134 which has been classified as…