Search Results - "Bachetti, Matteo"
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Stingray: A Modern Python Library for Spectral Timing
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2019)“…This paper describes the design and implementation of stingray, a library in Python built to perform time series analysis and related tasks on astronomical…”
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PINT: A Modern Software Package for Pulsar Timing
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-04-2021)“…Abstract Over the past few decades, the measurement precision of some pulsar timing experiments has advanced from ∼10 μ s to ∼10 ns, revealing many subtle…”
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SPECTRAL AND TEMPORAL PROPERTIES OF THE ULTRA-LUMINOUS X-RAY PULSAR IN M82 FROM 15 YEARS OF CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS OF THE PULSED EMISSION USING NuSTAR
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-01-2016)“…ABSTRACT The recent discovery by Bachetti et al. of a pulsar in M82 that can reach luminosities of up to 1040 erg s−1, a factor of ∼100 times the Eddington…”
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An Algorithm to Calibrate and Correct the Response to Unpolarized Radiation of the X-Ray Polarimeter Onboard IXPE
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-02-2022)“…Abstract The Gas Pixel Detector (GPD) is an X-ray polarimeter to fly onboard IXPE and other missions. To correctly measure the source polarization, the…”
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All at Once: Transient Pulsations, Spin-down, and a Glitch from the Pulsating Ultraluminous X-Ray Source M82 X-2
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2020)“…The first pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source (PULX) to be identified is M82 X-2. After the discovery in 2014, NuSTAR observed the M82 field 15 times…”
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Spectral and Timing Analysis of NuSTAR and Swift/XRT Observations of the X-Ray Transient MAXI J0637–430
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-11-2021)“…Abstract We present results for the first observed outburst from the transient X-ray binary source MAXI J0637–430. This study is based on eight observations…”
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A Weighted Analysis to Improve the X-Ray Polarization Sensitivity of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-04-2022)“…Abstract Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a Small Explorer mission that was launched at the end of 2021 to measure the polarization of X-ray…”
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Return to the Forgotten Ultraluminous X-Ray Source: A Broadband NICER+NuSTAR Study of NGC 4190 ULX-1
Published in The Astrophysical journal (18-06-2024)“…We observed the nearby and relatively understudied ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 4190 ULX-1 jointly with Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer…”
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Timing Calibration of the NuSTAR X-Ray Telescope
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-02-2021)“…The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission is the first focusing X-ray telescope in the hard X-ray (3-79 keV) band. Among the phenomena that…”
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MAXI and NuSTAR Observations of the Faint X-Ray Transient MAXI J1848-015 in the GLIMPSE-C01 Cluster
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2022)“…Abstract We present the results of Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) monitoring and two Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observations of the…”
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Orbital Decay in M82 X-2
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2022)“…Abstract M82 X-2 is the first pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source discovered. The luminosity of these extreme pulsars, if isotropic, implies an extreme mass…”
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The Slowest Spinning X-Ray Pulsar in an Extragalactic Globular Cluster
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-04-2017)“…Neutron stars are thought to be born rapidly rotating and then exhibit a phase of rotation-powered pulsations as they slow down to 1-10 s periods. The…”
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PINT: Maximum-likelihood Estimation of Pulsar Timing Noise Parameters
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2024)“…PINT is a pure-Python framework for high-precision pulsar timing developed on top of widely used and well-tested Python libraries, supporting both interactive…”
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Equalizing the Pixel Response of the Imaging Photoelectric Polarimeter Onboard the IXPE Mission
Published in The Astronomical journal (01-05-2023)“…Abstract The Gas Pixel Detector is a gas detector, sensitive to the polarization of X-rays, currently flying onboard the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer…”
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The high energy X-ray probe: resolved X-ray populations in extragalactic environments
Published in Frontiers in astronomy and space sciences (23-11-2023)“…We construct simulated galaxy data sets based on the High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P) mission concept to demonstrate the significant advances in galaxy science…”
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The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): studying extreme accretion with ultraluminous X-ray sources
Published in Frontiers in astronomy and space sciences (27-11-2023)“…Introduction: Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) represent an extreme class of accreting compact objects: from the identification of some of the accretors as…”
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The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): Resolving the nature of Sgr A flares, compact object binaries and diffuse X-ray emission in the Galactic center and beyond
Published in Frontiers in astronomy and space sciences (08-01-2024)“…HEX-P is a probe-class mission concept that will combine high spatial resolution X-ray imaging ( < 1 0 ″ FWHM) and broad spectral coverage (0.2–80 keV) with an…”
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A multi-wavelength pipeline for pulsar searches
Published in Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze fisiche e naturali (01-12-2019)“…Pulsar studies in the recent years have shown, more than others, to have benefited from a multi-wavelength approach. The INAF-Astronomical Observatory in…”
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Accurate X-ray timing in the presence of systematic biases with simulation-based inference
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (09-03-2022)“…ABSTRACT Because many of our X-ray telescopes are optimized towards observing faint sources, observations of bright sources like X-ray binaries in outburst are…”
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Hard X-Ray Flares and Spectral Variability in NGC 4395 ULX1
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2022)“…Abstract We report the detection of flaring events in NGC 4395 ULX1, a nearby ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX), for the first time, using recent XMM-Newton…”
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