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We conducted a comprehensive study of daily delays using multi-wavelength data from a sample of well-studied black hole X-ray binaries, specifically focusing on the sources GX 339-4, 4U 1543-47, and XTE J1550-564. The Interpolated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-18 Dizhan Du , Bei You , Zhen Yan , Xinwu Cao , Jean-Marie Hameury , Yue Wu

We explore the relationship between the hard X-ray photon index $\Gamma$ and the Eddington ratio (\xi=L_{X}(0.5-25 keV)/L_{Edd}) in six XRBs. We find that different XRBs follow different anti-correlations between $\Gamma$ and $\xi$ when…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Qingwen Wu , Minfeng Gu

We present a study of the correlations between spectral, timing properties and mass accretion rate observed in X-rays from the Galactic Black Hole (BH) binary GRS 1915+105 during the transition between hard and soft states. We analyze all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Lev Titarchuk , Elena Seifina

Temporal analysis of X-ray binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei have shown that hard X-rays react to variation of soft ones after a time delay. The opposite trend, or soft lag, has only been seen in a few rare Quasi-periodic Oscillations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shruti Tripathi , Ranjeev Misra , Gulab Dewangan , Shantanu Rastogi

The scaling relations between the black hole (BH) mass and soft lag properties for both active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and BH X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) suggest the same underlying physical mechanism at work in accreting BH systems spanning a…

We present the results of the analysis of a sample of 17 low-luminosity (L_x < 1e42 erg/s), radio loud AGNs in massive galaxies. The sample is extracted from the SDSS database and it spans uniformly a wide range in optical [OIII] emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. de Gasperin , A. Merloni , P. Sell , P. Best , S. Heinz , G. Kauffmann

X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are usually described as power law spectra, characterized by the spectral slope $\alpha$ or photon index $\Gamma$. Here we discuss the X-ray spectral properties within the framework of clumpy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 W. Ishibashi , T. J. -L. Courvoisier

We present the publicly available model \textsc{reltrans} that calculates the light-crossing delays and energy shifts experienced by X-ray photons originally emitted close to the black hole when they reflect from the accretion disk and are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Adam Ingram , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Thomas Dauser , Pieter Hovenkamp , Michiel van der Klis , Javier A. García

Universal to black hole X-ray binaries, the high-frequency soft lag gets longer during the hard-to-intermediate state transition, evolving from ${\lesssim}1~{\rm ms}$ to ${\sim}10~{\rm ms}$. The soft lag production mechanism is thermal disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-02 Greg Salvesen

The entire dataset of the GRANAT/SIGMA observations of Cyg X-1 and 1E1740.7-2942 in 1990-1994 was analyzed in order to search for correlations between primary observational characteristics of the hard X-ray (40-200 keV) emission - hard…

X-rays illuminating the accretion disc in active galactic nuclei give rise to an iron K line and its associated reflection spectrum which are lagged behind the continuum variability by the light-travel time from the source to the disc. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Misaki Mizumoto , Chris Done , Kouichi Hagino , Ken Ebisawa , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hirokazu Odaka

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

The correlation between the kinetic power $P_{\rm jet}$ and intrinsic bolometric luminosity $L_{\rm jet}$ of jets may reveal the underlying jet physics in various black hole systems. Based on the recent work by Nemmen et al. (2012), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Renyi Ma , Fu-Guo Xie , Shujin Hou

The Galactic black hole GRS 1915+105 exhibits generic High-Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillations (HFQPOs) at $\sim$ 67 Hz only during the radio-quiet 'softer' variability classes. We present the time-lag properties associated with HFQPOs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Prajjwal Majumder , Broja G. Dutta , Anuj Nandi

A statistical study of the correlation between hard X-ray and white light emission in solar flares is performed in order to search for a link between flare-accelerated electrons and white light formation. We analyze 43 flares spanning GOES…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Matej Kuhar , Säm Krucker , Juan Carlos Martínez Oliveros , Marina Battaglia , Lucia Kleint , Diego Casadei , Hugh S. Hudson

Studying the cross-correlation function between the soft and hard X-ray emission in Neutron Star Low Mass X-ray Binaries provides crucial insight into the structure and dynamics of the innermost accretion regions. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-06 Abhishek M. V. R. , Sriram K , Gouse SD

We report multiwavelength observations of the black hole transient GX 339-4 during its outburst decay in 2011 using the data from RXTE, Swift and SMARTS. Based on the X-ray spectral, temporal, and the optical/infrared (OIR) properties, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Tolga Dincer , Emrah Kalemci , Michelle M. Buxton , Charles D. Bailyn , John A. Tomsick , Stephane Corbel

Aims: Probe the high-energy ($>$60 MeV) emission from the black hole X-ray binary system, Cygnus X-1, and investigate its origin. Methods: We analysed 7.5 yr of data by Fermi/LAT with the latest PASS8 software version. Results: We report…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-30 Roberta Zanin , Alba Fernández-Barral , Emma de Oña-Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian , Oscar Blanch , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Daniel Galindo

We present quasi-simultaneous radio, (sub-)millimetre, and X-ray observations of the Galactic black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4, taken during its 2017--2018 outburst, where the source remained in the hard X-ray spectral state. During this…

Accreting black holes show characteristic reflection features in their X-ray spectrum, including an iron K$\alpha$ line, resulting from hard X-ray continuum photons illuminating the accretion disk. The reverberation lag resulting from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-24 Guglielmo Mastroserio , Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis