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We present a broadband spectral analysis of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 during its 2021 outburst, covering both hard and soft spectral states. Using simultaneous observations from NuSTAR, NICER, and Insight-HXMT, we investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Ruchika Dhaka , Ranjeev Misra , Suraj Kumar Chaurasia

We present the analysis of several observations of the black hole binary GX 339--4 during its bright intermediate states from two different outbursts (2002 and 2004), as observed by RXTE/PCA. We perform a consistent study of its reflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 Navin Sridhar , Javier A. García , James F. Steiner , Riley M. T. Connors , Victoria Grinberg , Fiona A. Harrison

Black hole X-ray binaries show signs of non-thermal emission in the optical/near-infrared range. We analyze the optical/near-infrared SMARTS data on GX339$-$4 over the 2002--2011 period. Using the soft state data, we estimate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-26 Ilia A. Kosenkov , Alexandra Veledina , Valery F. Suleimanov , Juri Poutanen

We conduct a spectral and timing analysis of GX 339-4 and EXO 1846-031 with the aim of studying the evolution of Type-C QPOs with spectral parameters. The high cadence data from Insight-HXMT and NICER allow us to track them. Type-C QPOs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-15 Zuobin Zhang , Honghui Liu , Divya Rawat , Cosimo Bambi , Ranjeev Misra , Pengju Wang , Long Ji , Shu Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang

The microquasar GX 339-4 experienced a new outburst in 2010: it was observed simultaneously at various wavelengths from radio up to soft gamma-rays. We focused on observations that are quasi-simultaneous with those made with the INTEGRAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Cadolle Bel , J. Rodriguez , P. D'Avanzo , D. M. Russell , J. Tomsick , S. Corbel , F. Lewis , F. Rahoui , M. Buxton , P. Goldoni , E. Kuulkers

We present a broad band spectral analysis of the black hole binary GX~339-4 with NuSTAR and Swift using high density reflection model. The observations were taken when the source was in low flux hard states (LF) during the outbursts in 2013…

A rapid timing analysis of VLT/ULTRACAM and RXTE observations of the black hole binary GX 339-4 in its 2007 low/hard state is presented. The optical light curves in the r', g' and u' filters show slow (~20 s) quasi-periodic variability.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 P. Gandhi , V. S. Dhillon , M. Durant , A. C. Fabian , A. Kubota , K. Makishima , J. Malzac , T. R. Marsh , J. M. Miller , T. Shahbaz , H. C. Spruit , P. Casella

We present a systematic study of GX 339-4 in both its very high and low hard states from simultaneous observations made with XMM-Newton and RXTE in 2002 and 2004. The X-ray spectra of both these extreme states exhibit strong reflection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. C. Reis , A. C. Fabian , R. Ross , G. Miniutti , J. M. Miller , C. Reynolds

We analyze {\it simultaneously} six composite {\it RXTE} spectra of GX 339--4 in the hard state comprising 77 million counts collected over 196 ks. The source spectra are ordered by luminosity and spanthe range 1.6\% to 17\% of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 Javier A. Garcia , James F. Steiner , Jeffrey E. McClintock , Ronald A. Remillard , Victoria Grinberg , Thomas Dauser

We present a study of the spectral properties during state transition of GX 339-4. Data are taken from the 2010 outburst of GX 339-4, which is densely covered by Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, providing an excellent coverage of the state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 H. Stiele , S. Motta , T. Muñoz-Darias , T. M. Belloni

We present results from the first multi-epoch X-ray/IR fast-photometry campaign on the black-hole transient GX 339--4, during its 2015 outburst decay. We studied the evolution of the power spectral densities finding strong differences…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 F. M. Vincentelli , P. Casella , P. Petrucci , T. Maccarone , D. Russell , P. Uttley , B. De Marco , R. Fender , P. Gandhi , J. Malzac , K. O'Brien , J. Tomsick

We present a comprehensive spectro-temporal analyses of recurrent outbursting black hole sources GX 339$-$4 and H 1743$-$322 using available AstroSat and NuSTAR archival observations during 2016-2024. The nature of the outburst profiles of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-18 U. Aneesha , Santabrata Das , Tilak B. Katoch , Anuj Nandi

We carried out spectro-temporal analysis of the archived data from multiple outbursts spanning over the last two decades from the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4. In this paper, the mass of the compact object in the X-ray binary system GX…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-13 Sreehari H. , Nirmal Iyer , Radhika D. , Anuj Nandi , Samir Mandal

We study X-ray and variability and distance of GX 339-4. We derive d>7 kpc, based on recent determination of the binary parameters. We study data from the Ginga/ASM, the CGRO/BATSE, and the RXTE/ASM, PCA and HEXTE. From 1987 to 2004, GX…

We present the results from spectral and timing study of the Z source GX 340+0 using AstroSat's SXT and LAXPC data. During the observation the source traced out the complete Z-track, allowing for the spectral evolution study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-06 Suchismito Chattopadhyay , Yashpal Bhulla , Ranjeev Misra , Soma Mandal

We present a comprehensive spectral-timing analysis of a BHXB Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023 outburst, using five pointed \textit{NuSTAR} observations sampling the luminous hard-intermediate state. Broadband 3-79 keV spectroscopy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Manoj Ghising , Nirpat Subba , Mohammed Tobrej , Binay Rai , Bikash Chandra Paul

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are often present in the X-ray flux from accreting stellar-mass black holes (BHs). If they are due to relativistic (Lense-Thirring) precession of an inner accretion flow which is misaligned with the disc,…

Understanding the dynamics behind black hole state transitions and the changes they reflect in outbursts has become long-standing problem. The X-ray reflection spectrum describes the interaction between the hard X-ray source (the power-law…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 D. S. Plant , R. P. Fender , G. Ponti , T. Muñoz-Darias , M. Coriat

The microquasar GX 339-4, known to exhibit powerful compact jets that dominate its radio to near-infrared emission, entered an outburst in 2010 for the fifth time in about fifteen years. An extensive radio to X-ray multi-wavelength campaign…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Rahoui , M. Coriat , S. Corbel , M. Cadolle Bel , J. A. Tomsick , J. C. Lee , J. Rodriguez , D. M. Russell , S. Migliari

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