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We report the first systematic analysis of single exposures of all optical and ultraviolet (UV) observations performed by the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) on board the {\em Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory} satellite available up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Filippo D'Ammando

We present the deepest yet radio image of the Galactic jet source, SS433, which reveals over two full precession cycles (> 2 x 163 days) of the jet axis. Systematic and identifiable deviations from the traditional kinematical model for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katherine Blundell , Michael Bowler

We study a stochastic variability of SS433 in the $10^{-4} - 5\times 10^{-2}$ Hz frequency range based on RXTE data, and on simultaneous observations with RXTE and optical telescopes. We find that the cross-correlation functions and power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-31 Kirill Atapin , Sergei Fabrika , Aleksei Medvedev , Alexander Vinokurov

We present analysis of extensive monitoring of SS433 by the RXTE observatory collected over the period 1996-2005. The difference between energy spectra taken at different precessional and orbital phases shows the presence of a strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Filippova , M. Revnivtsev , S. Fabrika , K. Postnov , E. Seifina

Be stars have generally been characterized by the emission lines in their spectra, and especially the time variability of those spectroscopic features. They are known to also exhibit photometric variability at multiple timescales, but have…

Aims: We used data from the 58 month long, continuous Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) observations of the five brightest Seyfert galaxies at hard X-rays, to study their flux and spectral variability in the 20-100 keV energy band. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 M. D. Caballero-Garcia , I. E. Papadakis , F. Nicastro , M. Ajello

We present optical spectroscopic observations of the least-luminous known Seyfert 1 galaxy, NGC 4395, which was monitored every half-hour over the course of 3 nights. The continuum emission varied by ~35 per cent over the course of 3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Skelton , A. Lawrence , A. Pappa , P. Lira , O. Almaini

AST3-1 is the second-generation wide-field optical photometric telescope dedicated to time domain astronomy at Dome A, Antarctica. Here we present the results of $i$ band images survey from AST3-1 towards one Galactic disk field. Based on…

The Galactic microquasar SS433 occasionally exhibits a major flare when the intensity of its emission increases significantly and rapidly. We present an analysis of high-resolution, almost-nightly optical spectra obtained before, during and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Katherine Blundell , Linda Schmidtobreick , Sergei Trushkin

We present results of first simultaneous optical and X-ray observations of peculiar binary system SS433. For the first time, chaotic variability of SS433 in the optical spectral band (R band) on time scales as small as tens of seconds was…

In recent years, much studies have focused on determining the origin of the large-scale line-profile and/or photometric patterns of variability displayed by some apparently single Wolf-Rayet stars, with the existence of an unseen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 T. Morel , L. N. Georgiev , Y. Grosdidier , N. St-Louis , T. Eversberg , G. M. Hill

The examination of long-term (1979-2020) photometric observations of SS433 enabled us to discover a non-zero orbital eccentricity of $e=0.05\pm 0.01.$ We have also found evidence for a secular increase in the orbital period at a rate of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-27 A. M. Cherepashchuk , A. A. Belinski , A. V. Dodin , K. A. Postnov

The analysis of hard X-ray INTEGRAL observations (2003-2008) of superaccreting galactic microquasar SS433 at precessional phases of the source with the maximum disk opening angle is carried out. It is found that the shape and width of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-23 A. M. Cherepashchuk , R. A. Sunyaev , K. A. Postnov , E. A. Antokhina , S. V. Molkov

We have conducted a 1.5 year-long variability study of the stars in the Cygnus OB2 association, the region in the northern hemisphere with the highest density of optically visible massive stars. The survey was conducted using four pointings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 J. Salas , J. Maíz Apellániz , R. H. Barbá

Variability is a characteristic feature of young stellar objects (YSOs) and could contribute to the large scatter observed in HR diagrams for star forming regions. For typical YSOs, however, the long-term effects of variability are poorly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aleks Scholz

We present spectroscopy of the microquasar SS 433 obtained near primary eclipse and disk precessional phase Psi = 0.0, when the accretion disk is expected to be most ``face-on''. The likelihood of observing the spectrum of the mass donor is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. C. Hillwig , D. R. Gies , W. Huang , M. V. McSwain , M. A. Stark , A. van der Meer , L. Kaper

We present results from a short series of blue, moderate resolution spectra of the microquasar binary, SS 433. The observations were made at a time optimized to find the spectrum of the donor star, i.e., when the donor was in the foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Gies , W. Huang , M. V. McSwain

The first seven years of RXTE monitoring of Seyfert 1 active galactic nuclei have been systematically analyzed to yield five homogeneous samples of 2-12 keV light curves, probing hard X-ray variability on successively longer durations from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex Markowitz , Rick Edelson

We present the variability analysis of a 100 ks XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1.5 active galaxy NGC 3227. The observation found NGC 3227 in a period where its hard power-law component displayed remarkably little long-term…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Arévalo , A. Markowitz

Accreting compact objects show variations in source flux over a broad range of timescales and in all wavebands. The light curves typically show a lognormal distribution of flux and a linear relation between flux and rms. It has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-20 William Alston