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astro-ph.HE2026

A Comprehensive X-ray Characterization of the Pulsar Wind Nebula CTB 87: Evidence for Reverse-Shock Interaction from Its X-ray and Broadband Emissions

Jaegeun Park, Jason Alford, Hongjun An +4

We present a comprehensive X-ray study of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) CTB 87, utilizing new NuSTAR observations and archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data. Our joint analysis reveal…

astro-ph.HE2026

Discovery of a Nearby Ultra-fast Magnetic White Dwarf Propeller: Common Pathways to Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables

Antonio C. Rodriguez, Kareem El-Badry, R. Michael Rich +11

The fastest spinning white dwarfs (WDs), which approach break-up speeds, are found in close binary systems. In the two known magnetic WD ``propellers'', AE~Aqr and LAMOST J0240+195…

astro-ph.HE2026

XMM-Newton Resolves Parsec-scale X-ray Jets in the PeVatron Microquasar V4641 Sgr

Naomi Tsuji, Caterina Tresoldi, Kaya Mori +34

The microquasar V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr) has recently been established as one of the most powerful Galactic PeV cosmic-ray accelerators (PeVatrons) through the detection of deg…

astro-ph.HE2026

Candidate X-ray Counterparts of Ultra-High-Energy Emission of the Galactic Microquasar V4641 Sgr Revealed by Einstein Probe

Yi-Heng Chi, Shao-Qiang Xi, Ping Zhou +20

Microquasars have emerged as promising PeVatron candidates capable of accelerating particles to PeV energies, with recent observations revealing ultra-high-energy (UHE) -ray emi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Distinct Velocity Components in the Absorption Lines of the Neutron Star X-ray Binary AX J1745.6-2901

Kai Matsunaga, Maxime Parra, Yutaro Nagai +10

Accretion disks in X-ray binaries regulate mass transfer onto compact objects and drive radiative and kinetic feedback to their surroundings. Here we report X-ray spectroscopy of t…

astro-ph.HE2026

X-ray luminous late-type giants: an overlooked population contributing to the Galactic ridge iron line emission

Tong Bao, Gabriele Ponti, Xiao-jie Xu +8

The origin of the highly ionized iron emission (Fe XXV at ) characterizing the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) remains a fundamental puzzle in high-energy a…

astro-ph.HE2026

Modeling isolated magnetar spin-down evolution and implications for long-period radio transients

Jon Kwong, Kaya Mori

Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are a new class of radio sources characterized by long spin periods ( s) and highly variable radio emission. While known m…

astro-ph.HE2026

New Hard X-Ray and Multiwavelength Study of the PeVatron Candidate PWN G0.9+0.1 in the Galactic Center Region

Giulia Brunelli, Kaya Mori, Jaegeun Park +12

We present a new X-ray study and multiwavelength spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling of the young pulsar wind nebula (PWN) powered by the energetic pulsar PSR J1747-2809, i…

astro-ph.HE2025

A wide-field X-ray search for the Geminga pulsar halo with SRG/ART-XC

Roman Krivonos, Silvia Manconi, Vadim Arefiev +8

Searches for the putative large-scale X-ray halo around the Geminga pulsar have been extensively performed using various narrow field-of-view X-ray telescopes. In this paper, we pr…

astro-ph.HE2025

The First X-Ray Polarimetry of an Eclipsing Low-Mass X-Ray Binary: Serendipitous IXPE Observation of AX J1745.6-2901

Romana Mikušincová, Lorenzo Marra, Hemanth Manikantan +38

We present the first X-ray polarimetric measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary system AX J1745.6-2901 conducted by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) sate…

astro-ph.HE2025

Broadband X-ray observations of the periodic optical source ZTF J185139.81+171430.3 and its identification as a massive intermediate polar

Ren Deng, Kaya Mori, Eric Miao +5

We present X-ray observations of the periodic optical source ZTF J185139.81+171430.3 (hereafter ZTF J1851) by the XMM, NICER and NuSTAR telescopes. The source was initially specula…

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★ 2 cited

Unveiling the soft X-ray source population towards the inner Galactic disk with XMM-Newton

Tong Bao, Gabriele Ponti, Frank Haberl +5

Across the Galactic disk lies a diverse population of X-ray sources, with the fainter end remaining poorly understood due to past survey sensitivity limits. We aim to classify and…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

The first proper motion measurement of the acceleration regions in the large-scale jets of SS 433 powering the W50 nebula

Naomi Tsuji, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Dmitry Khangulyan +10

We report on new Chandra ACIS-I observations of the X-ray knots located in the western and eastern lobes of W50 associated with the parsec-scale jets of the Galactic microquasar SS…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

The very faint X-ray transient Swift J174610-290018 at the Galactic center

Giovanni Stel, Gabriele Ponti, Nathalie Degenaar +17

Very Faint X-ray Transients (VFXTs) are a class of X-ray binary systems that exhibit occasional outbursts with peak X-ray luminosities (L_X< 1e36 erg s^-1) much lower than typical…

astro-ph.HE2025

HAWC, VERITAS, Fermi-LAT and XMM-Newton follow-up observations of the unidentified ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J2108+5157

The VERITAS collaboration, C. B. Adams, P. Bangale +142

We report observations of the ultra-high-energy gamma-ray source LHAASO J21085157, utilizing VERITAS, HAWC, Fermi-LAT, and XMM-Newton. VERITAS has collected 40 hours of d…

astro-ph.HE2025

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632+057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction

Jaegeun Park, Hongjun An, Chanho Kim +60

We present an analysis of new multi-wavelength observations of the TeV gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057, conducted using SALT, Swift, NuSTAR, and VERITAS in 2023--2024. By combining…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Einstein Probe discovery of the short period intermediate polar EP J115415.8-501810

Y. Xiao, M. Ge, N. Rea +21

The X-ray transient source EP240309a/EP\,J115415.8501810 was first detected by the Wide-Field X-ray Telescope (WXT) on board Einstein Probe (EP) during the commissioning phase.…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Exploring MAXI J1744-294: IXPE insights into a Newly Discovered X-ray Transient

Lorenzo Marra, Romana Mikušincová, Federico M. Vincentelli +33

We present the first IXPE spectro-polarimetric observation of the black hole candidate MAXI J1744294, a transient X-ray source discovered during a bright 2025 outburst in the Ga…

astro-ph.HE2025

Constraints on diffuse X-ray Emission from the TeV halo Candidate HESS J1813-126

David Guevel, Kim L Page, Kaya Mori +2

Extended regions of very high energy -ray emission associated with middle-aged pulsars have been found by -ray observatories. These regions, called TeV halos or pulsar halos,…

astro-ph.HE2025

Multiwavelength observation of a candidate pulsar halo LHAASO J0621+3755 and the first X-ray detection of PSR J0622+3749

C. B. Adams, A. Archer, P. Bangale +71

Pulsar halos are regions around middle-aged pulsars extending out to tens of parsecs. The large extent of the halos and well-defined central cosmic-ray accelerators make this new c…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Detection of molecular clouds in the PeVatron candidate source LHAASO J03415258 by the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope

Naomi Tsuji, Shunya Takekawa, Kaya Mori +8

We report a new CO observation survey of LHAASO J03415258 using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) 45-m telescope. LHAASO J03415258 is one of the unidentified ultra-high-en…

astro-ph.HE2025

Discovery of a Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate Associated with the Galactic PeVatron 1LHAASO J0343+5254u

Stephen DiKerby, Shuo Zhang, Tulun Ergin +6

The astronomical origin of the most energetic galactic cosmic rays and gamma rays is still uncertain. X-ray followup of candidate "PeVatrons", systems producing cosmic rays with en…

astro-ph.HE2024

Detection of extended X-ray emission around the PeVatron microquasar V4641 Sgr with XRISM

Hiromasa Suzuki, Naomi Tsuji, Yoshiaki Kanemaru +26

A recent report on the detection of very-high-energy gamma rays from V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr) up to ~0.8 peta-electronvolt has made it the second confirmed "PeVatron" microquas…