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most citedIn-Orbit Performance of the Hard X-ray Detector on board Suzaku

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astro-ph.HE2014★ 3 cited

ASTRO-H White Paper - Accreting Pulsars, Magnetars, and Related Sources

S. Kitamoto, T. Enoto, S. Safi-Harb +18

As the endpoints of massive star evolution, neutron stars are enigmatic celestial objects characterized by extremely dense and exotic nuclear matter, magnetospheres with positrons…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 5 cited

Precursors and Outbursts of A 0535+26 in 2009-2011 observed by the MAXI/GSC and the Swift/BAT

Motoki Nakajima, Tatehiro Mihara, Mutsumi Sugizaki +4

Over the 3-year active period from 2008 September to 2011 November, the outburst behavior of the Be/X-ray binary A 0535+26 was continuously monitored with the MAXI/GSC and the Swif…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 13 cited

Highly Ionized Fe-K Absorption Line from Cygnus X-1 in the High/Soft State Observed with Suzaku

S. Yamada, S. Torii, S. Mineshige +7

We present observations of a transient He-like Fe K alpha absorption line in Suzaku observations of the black hole binary Cygnus X-1 on 2011 October 5 near superior conjunction dur…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 28 cited

Possible Detection of an Emission Cyclotron Resonance Scattering Feature from the Accretion-powered Pulsar 4U 1626-67

W. B. Iwakiri, Y. Terada, T. Mihara +7

We present analysis of 4U 1626-67, a 7.7 s pulsar in a low-mass X-ray binary system, observed with the hard X-ray detector of the Japanese X-ray satellite Suzaku in March 2006 for…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 130 cited

Rapid optical and X-ray timing observations of GX 339-4: multi-component optical variability in the low/hard state

P. Gandhi, V. S. Dhillon, M. Durant +9

A rapid timing analysis of VLT/ULTRACAM and RXTE observations of the black hole binary GX 339-4 in its 2007 low/hard state is presented. The optical light curves in the r', g' and…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 46 cited

Suzaku Discovery of a Hard X-Ray Tail in the Persistent Spectra from the Magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 during its 2009 Activity

Enoto Teruaki, Nakazawa Kazuhiro, Makishima Kazuo +8

The fastest-rotating magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 was observed in broad-band X-rays with Suzaku for 33 ks on 2009 January 28-29, 7 days after the onset of its latest bursting activity.…