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Searching for optical pulsations from spider millisecond pulsars with the fast photometer SiFAP2
Christian Malacaria, Alessandro Papitto, Filippo Ambrosino +19
Optical pulsations from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have recently been detected in a transitional MSP and an accreting MSP. Evidence for optical pulsations has also been found for a…
Peering through the dip: IXPE unveils the extended scattering environment of GX 13+1
Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, Luigi Stella +17
Neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries feature complex accretion geometries, often including an accretion disk corona or disk winds. Here, a study of the highly inclined dipping sour…
Gravitational self-lensing of Fast Radio Bursts in neutron star magnetospheres: II. Applications to strong repeaters and the CHIME population
Riccardo La Placa, Simone Dall'Osso, Luigi Stella +1
Paper I in this series introduced a model in which seed radio bursts produced by a hotspot anchored in the magnetosphere of a highly-magnetic neutron star (NS) are greatly amplifie…
A semi-coherent search for optical pulsations from Scorpius X-1
Riccardo La Placa, Alessandro Papitto, Giulia Illiano +14
The emission of continuous gravitational waves (CWs) possibly explains why pulsars spinning with a period shorter than a millisecond have not been observed so far. Neutron stars ac…
X-ray Dips and Polarization Angle Swings in GX 13+1
Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, Anna Bobrikova +8
We present the result from the April 2024 observation of the low-mass X-ray binary GX 13+1 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), together with NICER and Swift-XRT coo…
Investigating the interplay between the coronal properties and the hard X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei with NuSTAR
Roberto Serafinelli, Alessandra De Rosa, Alessia Tortosa +11
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are extremely variable in the X-ray band down to very short timescales. However, the driver behind the X-ray variability is still poorly understood. Pr…
Skipping a beat: discovery of persistent quasi-periodic oscillations associated with pulsed fraction drop of the spin signal in M51 ULX-7
Matteo Imbrogno, Sara Elisa Motta, Roberta Amato +24
The discovery of pulsations in (at least) six ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has shown that neutron stars can accrete at (highly) super-Eddington rates, challenging the standar…
The first continuous optical monitoring of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 with Kepler
A. Papitto, N. Rea, F. Coti Zelati +10
We report on the first continuous, 80 day optical monitoring of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 carried out in mid-2017 with Kepler in the K2 configuration, when…
Pulsator-like spectra from Ultraluminous X-ray sources and the search for more ultraluminous pulsars
F. Pintore, L. Zampieri, L. Stella +3
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are a population of extragalactic objects whose luminosity exceeds the Eddington limit for a 10 Msun black hole (BH). Their properties have been…
LOFT: the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing
M. Feroci, J. W. den Herder, E. Bozzo +245
The LOFT mission concept is one of four candidates selected by ESA for the M3 launch opportunity as Medium Size missions of the Cosmic Vision programme. The launch window is curren…
LOFT - a Large Observatory For x-ray Timing
M. Feroci, L. Stella, A. Vacchi +46
The high time resolution observations of the X-ray sky hold the key to a number of diagnostics of fundamental physics, some of which are unaccessible to other types of investigatio…