Advances in Understanding High-Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRALand Future Directions

Kretschmar, P.; Fürst, Felix; Sidoli, L.; Bozzo, E.; Alfonso-Garzón, J.; Bodaghee, A.; Chaty, S.; Chernyakova, M.; Ferrigno, C.; Manousakis, A.; Negueruela, I.; Постнов, К. А.; Paizis, A.; Reig, P.; Roca, José Joaquín Rodes; Tsygankov, Sergey S.; Bird, A. J.; Kühnel, Matthias; Blay, P.; Caballero, I.; Coe, M. J.; Domingo, A.; Doroshenko, V.; Ducci, L.; Falanga, M.; Гребенев, С. А.; Grinberg, V.; Hemphill, Paul; Kreykenbohm, I.; Fritz, Sonja; Li, Jian; Lutovinov, A.; Martínez-Núñez, Silvia; Más‐Hesse, J. M.; Masetti, N.; McBride, V. A.; Neronov, A.; Pottschmidt, K.; Rodríguez, J.; Romano, P.; Rothschild, R. E.; Santangelo, A.; Sguera, V.; Staubert, R.; Tomsick, John A.; Torrejón, José M.; Torres, D. F.; Walter, R.; Wilms, J.; Wilson-Hodge, C.; Zhang, Shu

doi:10.1016/j.newar.2020.101546

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“…Despite significant progress in the study of such systems in recent decades (e.g. Revnivtsev et al 2008;Lutovinov et al 2013;Hong et al 2016;Kretschmar et al 2019;Sazonov et al 2020;Papitto et al 2020), their physical and statistical properties are still not known anywhere near as well as those of brighter X-ray binaries with L X ∼ 10 35 -10 38 erg s −1 . ART-XC will make a census of such low-luminosity X-ray binaries for the first time.…”

Section: X-ray Binaries and Cataclysmic Variablesmentioning

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The ART-XC telescope on board the SRG observatory

Pavlinsky

Tkachenko

Levin

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Astronomical Roentgen Telescope – X-ray Concentrator (ART-XC) is the hard X-ray instrument with grazing incidence imaging optics on board the Spektr-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) observatory. The SRG observatory is the flagship astrophysical mission of the Russian Federal Space Program, which was successively launched into orbit around the second Lagrangian point (L2) of the Earth-Sun system with a Proton rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome on 13 July 2019. The ART-XC telescope will provide the first ever true imaging all-sky survey performed with grazing incidence optics in the 4–30 keV energy band and will obtain the deepest and sharpest map of the sky in the energy range of 4–12 keV. Observations performed during the early calibration and performance verification phase as well as during the ongoing all-sky survey that started on 12 December 2019 have demonstrated that the in-flight characteristics of the ART-XC telescope are very close to expectations based on the results of ground calibrations. Upon completion of its four-year all-sky survey, ART-XC is expected to detect approximately 5000 sources (~3000 active galactic nuclei, including heavily obscured ones, several hundred clusters of galaxies, ~1000 cataclysmic variables and other Galactic sources), and to provide a high-quality map of the Galactic background emission in the 4–12 keV energy band. ART-XC is also well suited for discovering transient X-ray sources. In this paper, we describe the telescope, the results of its ground calibrations, the major aspects of the mission, the in-flight performance of ART-XC, and the first scientific results.

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The ART-XC telescope on board the SRG observatory

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Tkachenko

Levin

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“…2.5. We refer the reader to the article by Sazonov et al (2020) for the results obtained for slower and/or non-pulsating NSs in low-mass X-ray binaries, and to the article by Email address: alessandro.papitto@inaf.it (A. Papitto) Kretschmar et al (2020) for the case of X-ray pulsars in high-mass X-ray binaries. Sect.…”

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The INTEGRAL view of the pulsating hard X-ray sky: from accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars to rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars

Papitto¹,

Falanga

Hermsen

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New Astronomy Reviews

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In the last 25 years, a new generation of X-ray satellites imparted a significant leap forward in our knowledge of X-ray pulsars. The discovery of accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars proved that disk accretion can spin up a neutron star to a very high rotation speed. The detection of MeV-GeV pulsed emission from a few hundreds of rotation-powered pulsars probed particle acceleration in the outer magnetosphere, or even beyond. Also, a population of two dozens of magnetars has emerged. INTEGRAL played a central role to achieve these results by providing instruments with high temporal resolution up to the hard X-ray/soft γ-ray band and a large field of view imager with good angular resolution to spot hard X-ray transients. In this article, we review the main contributions by INTEGRAL to our understanding of the pulsating hard X-ray sky, such as the discovery and characterization of several accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars, the generation of the first catalog of hard X-ray/soft γ-ray rotation-powered pulsars, the detection of polarization in the hard X-ray emission from the Crab pulsar, and the discovery of persistent hard X-ray emission from several magnetars.

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“…Masetti et al 2013 andLandi et al 2017). The variety of sources thus uncovered is truly remarkable, spanning from X-ray binaries like Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXB, see Sazonov et al 2020 for a review) and High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXB, see Kretschmar et al 2019 for a review), Cataclysmic Variables (CVs, see Lutovinov E-email: manuela.molina@inaf.it (MM) et al 2020 for a review) and Symbiotic X-ray Binaries (e.g. Masetti et al 2007) to extragalactic objects, mainly Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN; see Malizia et al 2020 for a review).…”

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Investigating the true nature of three hard X-ray sources

Molina

Malizia

Masetti

et al. 2021

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Many of the new high energy sources discovered both by INTEGRAL/IBIS and Swift/BAT have been characterized thanks to extensive, multiband follow-up campaigns, but there are still objects whose nature remains to be asserted. In this paper, we investigate the true nature of three high energy sources, IGR J12134−6015, IGR J16058−7253, and Swift J2037.2+4151, employing multiwavelength data from the near-infrared to the X-rays. Through Gaia and ESO-VLT measurements and through Swift/XRT X-ray spectral analysis, we re-evaluate the classification for IGR J12134−6015, arguing that the source is a Galactic object and in particular a cataclysmic variable. We were able to confirm, thanks toNuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array(NuSTAR) observations, that the hard X-ray emission detected by INTEGRAL/IBIS and Swift/BAT from IGR J16058−7253 is coming from two Seyfert 2 galaxies which are both counterparts for this source. Through optical and X-ray spectral analysis of SwiftJ2037.2+4151 we find that this source is likely part of the rare and peculiar class of symbiotic X-ray binaries and displays flux and spectral variability as well as interesting spectral features, such as a blending of several emission lines around the iron line complex.

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Advances in Understanding High-Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRALand Future Directions

Cited by 64 publications

References 468 publications

The ART-XC telescope on board the SRG observatory

The ART-XC telescope on board the SRG observatory

The INTEGRAL view of the pulsating hard X-ray sky: from accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars to rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars

Investigating the true nature of three hard X-ray sources

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