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We report on INTEGRAL observations of the bright black-hole transient GX 339-4 performed during the period August-September 2004. Our data cover three different spectral states, namely Hard/Intermediate State, Soft/Intermediate State and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Del Santo , J. Malzac , E. Jourdain , T. Belloni , P. Ubertini

We report on X-ray and soft gamma-ray observations of the black-hole candidate GX 339-4 during its 2007 outburst, performed with the RXTE and INTEGRAL satellites. The hardness-intensity diagram of all RXTE/PCA data combined shows a q-shaped…

We investigate systematically four outbursts of black hole system GX 339-4 observed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in both spectral and timing domains and find that these outbursts have some common properties although they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-07 Q. C. Shui , H. X. Yin , S. Zhang , J. L. Qu , Y. P. Chen , L. D. Kong , P. J. Wang , H. F. Zhang , J. X. Song , B. Ning , Y. F. Wang , Z. Chang , P. Zhang

We investigated the snapshots of five NICER observations of the black hole transient GX 339-4 when the source transited from the hard state into the soft state during its outburst in 2021. In this paper, we focused our study on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-14 H. Stiele , A. K. H. Kong

We report the results of an observation with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of the black hole candidate GX 339-4 during its 2002/2003 outburst. This observation took place during a spectral transition from the hard to the soft state. A…

We report on X-ray observations of the black-hole candidate GX 339-4 during its 2006/2007 outburst. The hardness-intensity diagram of all RXTE/PCA data combined shows a q-shaped track similar to that observed in previous outbursts. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Motta , T. Belloni , J. Homan

We use frequency-resolved spectroscopy to examine the energy spectra of the prominent low frequency QPO and its harmonic in GX 339-4. We track the evolution of these spectra as the source makes a transition from a bright low/hard to hard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-04 M. Axelsson , C. Done

We report on INTEGRAL observations performed during the 2004 outburst of the bright black hole transient GX 339-4. We analysed IBIS and JEM-X public data starting on 9th August and lasting about one month. During this period GX 339-4 showed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Del Santo , J. Malzac , P. Ubertini , T. Belloni

We report the results of observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of the black-hole candidate GX 339-4 during the state transition of 1998. We find that both the X-ray spectrum and the characteristic of the time variability after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Belloni , M. Mendez , M. van der Klis , W. Lewin , S. Dieters

We report the results from our timing analysis of 15 RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1 throughout its 1996 spectral transitions. The entire period can be divided into 3 distinct phases: (1) transition from the hard to soft state, (2) soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei Cui , S. N. Zhang , W. Focke , J. Swank

By comparing positions on a spectral color-color diagram from 10 black hole candidates (BHCs) observed with Ginga (1354-64, 1826-24, 1630-47, LMC X-1, LMC X-3, GS 2000+25, GS 2023+33, GS 1124-68, Cyg X-1, and GX 339-4) with the observed…

Fast transitions between different types of power density spectra (PDS) happening over timescales of several tens of seconds are rare phenomena in black hole X-ray binaries. In this paper, we report a broadband spectral-timing analysis of…

We present the optical/infra-red lightcurve (O/IR) of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 collected at the SMARTS 1.3m telescope from 2002 to 2010. During this time the source has undergone numerous state transitions including hard-to-soft…

The black hole X-ray binary GX\,339-4 showed an X-ray outburst during 2021. The {\it AstroSat} captured this outburst when the source entered into the intermediate flux state while the count rate was declining. The source showed an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-09 Santanu Mondal , Anirudh Salgundi , Debjit Chatterjee , Arghajit Jana , H. -K. Chang , Sachindra Naik

We present a comprehensive study of the 2021 outburst of GX 339-4 using AstroSat observations in the hard-intermediate (HIMS) and soft-intermediate states (SIMS). Spectral and timing analyses across these states suggest that during the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-25 Vaibhav Sharma , Ranjeev Misra , J S Yadav , Akash Garg , Pankaj Jain

We analyse the 2021 outburst from the black hole X-ray binary GX339-4 observed by NICER around the hard to soft transition, when the system exhibits flip-flops between two distinct luminosity states: a bright state with a 5-6 Hz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 D. J. K. Buisson , G. Marcel , V. López-Barquero , S. E. Motta , S. G. D. Turner , F. M. Vincentelli

We present an analysis of NuSTAR observations of a hard intermediate state of the transient black hole GX 339-4 taken in January 2015. As the source softened significantly over the course of the 1.3 d-long observation we split the data into…

As part of our multiwavelength campaign of GX 339-4 observations in 1996 we present the rapid X-ray variability observed July 26 using the RXTE when the source was in a hard state (= soft X-ray low state). We found that the source was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. A. Smith , E. P. Liang

We have studied the fast timing and spectral behavior of the black hole candidate (BHC) GX 339-4 using all 1 - 20 keV EXOSAT ME data: the July 1983, March 1984, May 1984 and April 1985 observations. In April 1985 GX 339-4 was in a weak low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Mariano Mendez , Michiel van der Klis

We study the high-energy emission of the Galactic black hole candidate GX 339-4 using INTEGRAL/SPI and simultaneous RXTE/PCA data. By the end of January 2007, when it reached its peak luminosity in hard X-rays, the source was in a bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Robert Droulans , Renaud Belmont , Julien Malzac , Elisabeth Jourdain
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