14 papers
Photon-Count Statistics of Crab X-ray Pulses: Skellam Behavior and Excess Variance in the Main Pulse
Max Worchel, Margaret M. Ferris, Sasha Levina +15
The Crab pulsar (PSR B0531+21) provides an unusually rich test bed for statistical studies of high-energy photon-counting data, owing to its extreme brightness and the contrasting…
NICER Magnetar Burst Catalog
Che-Yen Chu, Chin-Ping Hu, Teruaki Enoto +13
In this paper, we present a comprehensive catalog of short bursts from magnetars based on eight years of NICER observations. A total of 1130 bursts were identified from 14 sources,…
Eclipsing Stellar Flare on the Demon Star Algol Binary System Observed during the MAXI-NICER Follow-up Campaign in 2018
Kazuya Nakayama, Wataru Buz Iwakiri, Teruaki Enoto +6
Algol is a well-known eclipsing binary hosting an active and variable star that exhibits frequent stellar flares. Here, we report our pre-planned and coordinated rapid X-ray follow…
Origin of the stellar Fe Kα line clarified with FUV and X-ray observations of a superflare on the RS Canum Venaticorum-type Star UX Arietis
Shun Inoue, Wataru Buz Iwakiri, Tomoki Kimura +11
Fluorescence line diagnostics of the Fe Kα line at keV observed in both solar and stellar flares can constrain the latitude and size of the flare loop, even in the abse…
Quasi-periodic variation during a fast X-ray outburst of a high-mass X-ray binary MAXI J0709-159 / LY CMa observed by NICER
Mutsumi Sugizaki, Tatehiro Mihara, Kohei Kobayashi +6
We report on a quasi-periodic variation at Hz during a fast X-ray outburst of a high-mass X-ray binary MAXI J0709159 / LY CMa observed by the Neutron-star interior compo…
Systematic NICER study of the low-ionized Fe K line on RS Canum Venaticorum type stars
Shun Inoue, Teruaki Enoto, Yuta Notsu +4
The Fe K fluorescence line ( keV) has been observed during solar and stellar flares. Two emission mechanisms of the Fe K line, photoionization and collisional ion…