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Revisiting the archetypical wind accretor Vela X-1 in depth

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 652 (2021) A95-A95

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P Kretschmar, I El Mellah, S Martínez-Núñez, F Fürst, V Grinberg, AAC Sander, J van den Eijnden, N Degenaar, J Maíz Apellániz, F Jiménez Esteban, M Ramos-Lerate, E Utrilla

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We describe the scientific potential of a Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) onboard the ESA–CAS satellite SMILE to study the activity of cosmic X-ray sources in the soft X-ray region and located in the fields planned to be observed by SXI. We used the 2–3 keV band flux of the monitor MAXI/ISS, covering at least part of the expected band of the SXI/SMILE telescope. We discuss how SXI can contribute to this branch and how combining the SXI/SMILE data with those obtained by other satellites on the same days can be helpful if the light curves of the 1-day means are used. We show these possibilities on several examples of cosmic X-ray sources (Vela X-1 and GROJ1008-57 containing neutron stars accreting matter from their companions) in the field of view of SXI. Including observations from MAXI/ISS and BAT/Swift will enable extending the coverage to the energy of 50 keV
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Revisiting the archetypical wind accretor Vela X-1 in depth -- A case study of a well-known X-ray binary and the limits of our knowledge

ArXiv 2104.13148 (2021)

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Peter Kretschmar, Ileyk El Mellah, Silvia Martínez-Núñez, Felix Fürst, Victoria Grinberg, Andreas AC Sander, Jakob van den Eijnden, Nathalie Degenaar, Jesús Maíz-Apellániz, Francisco Jiménez Esteban, Mercedes Ramos-Lerate, Enrique Utrilla
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Eight new millisecond pulsars from the first MeerKAT globular cluster census

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 504:1 (2021) 1407-1426

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A Ridolfi, T Gautam, PCC Freire, SM Ransom, SJ Buchner, A Possenti, V Venkatraman Krishnan, M Bailes, M Kramer, BW Stappers, F Abbate, ED Barr, M Burgay, F Camilo, A Corongiu, A Jameson, PV Padmanabh, L Vleeschower, DJ Champion, W Chen, M Geyer, A Karastergiou, R Karuppusamy, A Parthasarathy, DJ Reardon, M Serylak, RM Shannon, R Spiewak
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Strong low-frequency radio flaring from Cygnus X-3 observed with LOFAR

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 504:1 (2021) 1482-1494

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JW Broderick, TD Russell, RP Fender, SA Trushkin, DA Green, J Chauhan, NA Nizhelskij, PG Tsybulev, NN Bursov, AV Shevchenko, GG Pooley, DRA Williams, JS Bright, A Rowlinson, S Corbel
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Particle acceleration in radio galaxies with flickering jets: GeV electrons to ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 503:4 (2021) 5948-5964

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James H Matthews, Andrew M Taylor
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