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In this paper we take the reported measurements of black hole spin for black hole X-ray binaries, and compare them against measurements of jet power and speed across all accretion states in these systems. We find no evidence for any…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Rob Fender , Elena Gallo , David Russell

Accretion onto black holes is one of the most efficient energy source in the Universe. Black hole accretion powers some of the most luminous objects in the universe, including quasars, active galactic nuclei, tidal disruption events,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Qingcui Bu , Shuangnan Zhang

Low-mass black hole X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) undergo outbursts, during which their brightness increases greatly for timescales of months. The X-ray accretion and radio jet properties change dramatically throughout an outburst in a broadly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-17 Eric Davidson , Jaiverdhan Chauhan , Anne Lohfink , Thomas D. Russell , Rhaana Starling , Charlotte Johnson

After an X-ray binary experiences a transient jet ejection, it undergoes a phase in which its X-ray light curve is dominated, for some time, by thermal emission from an accretion disk surrounding the black hole. The accretion physics in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David M. Rothstein

We study the accretion/ejection processes (i.e. disc/jet coupling) in the neutron star X-ray binary Aquila X-1 via a multi-wavelength approach. We use in the radio band the publicly available VLA archive containing observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-10 V. Tudose , R. P. Fender , M. Linares , D. Maitra , M. van der Klis

Transient radio emission from X-ray binaries is associated with synchrotron emission from collimated jets that escape the system, and accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars (AMXPs) are no exception. Although jets from black hole X-ray binaries…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. Russell , Rob P. Fender , Peter Jonker , Dipankar Maitra

In this review I summarise the observational connections between accretion and relativistic outflows -- jets -- in X-ray binaries. I argue that jets are likely to be a fairly ubiquitous property of X-ray binaries as a whole, an assertion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rob Fender

GRS 1915+105 - the first stellar-scale, highly relativistic jet source identified - is a key system for our understanding of the disc-jet coupling in accreting black hole systems. Comprehending the coupling between inflow and outflow in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rob Fender , Tomaso Belloni

The X-ray spectra of black hole binaries in the low/hard state first harden as the flux decreases, then soften. This change in behaviour has been variously attributed to either the X-rays switching from being produced in the flow to being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Emma Gardner , Chris Done

We present time-dependent simulations of a two-phase accretion flow around a black hole. The accretion flow initially is composed of an optically thick and cool disc close to the midplane, while on top and below the disc there is a hot and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Mayer , J. E. Pringle

Using long-duration general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion discs, the energy, momentum and mass outflow rates from such systems are estimated. Outflows occur via two fairly distinct modes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , R. Penna , Y. Zhu

The theoretical model suggests that relativistic jets of AGN rely on the black hole spin and/or accretion. We study the relationship between jet, accretion, and spin using supermassive black hole samples with reliable spin of black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Jianghe Yang , Junhui Fan , Xiaoling Yu , Dingrong Xiong , Nan Ding , Xiaotong Guo

The models that seek to explain the reflection spectrum in black hole binaries usually invoke a point-like primary source of hard X-rays. This source illuminates the accretion disk and gives rise to the discrete (lines) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 P. Reig , N. D. Kylafis

I present a brief review of the properties of jets from X-ray binaries, highlighting the disk-jet connection, in which there are strong correlations between X-ray and radio power for black holes and for neutron star in low/hard spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-17 Thomas J. Maccarone

In this short review we describe some of the latest endeavours to understand the activity around Black Holes. First, it has been possible to demonstrate that a large part of the electromagnetic emission observed can be interpreted as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter L. Biermann , Mihaela Chirvasa , Heino Falcke , Sera Markof , Christian Zier

We present an accretion cycle which can explain state transitions and other observed phenomena in black hole X-ray binaries. This model is based on the process of disc tearing, where individual rings of gas break off the disc and precess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Chris Nixon , Greg Salvesen

In this paper, we summarize key observational constraints of the accretion flow on the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1). The discussion highlights the flows of energy close to the black hole and the importance of the distance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Henric Krawczynski , Kun Hu

Our knowledge of the phenomenology of accretion onto black holes has increased considerably thanks to ten years of observations with the RXTE satellite. However, only recently it has been possible to derive a scheme for the outburst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomaso Belloni

Accretion onto black holes is an efficient mechanism in converting the gas mass-energy into energetic outputs as radiation, wind and jet. Tidal disruption events, in which stars are tidally torn apart and then accreted onto supermassive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-14 Jane Lixin Dai , Giuseppe Lodato , Roseanne M. Cheng