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Type-B quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black-hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) are a class of low-frequency QPOs that are observed in the soft intermediate state in the rising and the declining phases of an outburst. They are suspected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-19 Nikolaos D. Kylafis , Pablo Reig , Iossif Papadakis

To better constrain the emission mechanism underlying the hard state of galactic black hole candidates, we use high-time resolution RXTE lightcurves for Cyg X-1 and GX 399-4 to compute two higher order variability statistics for these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas J. Maccarone , Paolo S. Coppi

Positive lags between the arrival time of different photon energies are commonly observed in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), where soft photons lag behind harder ones. However, some GRBs exhibit the opposite behavior. In particular, Fermi LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 C. Maraventano , G. Ghirlanda , L. Nava , T. Di Salvo , W. Leone , R. Iaria , L. Burderi , A. Tsvetkova

We present a comprehensive study of (quasi-)simultaneous radio:X-ray observations of stellar black hole binaries during the spectrally hard X-ray state, finding evidence for a strong correlation between these two bands over more than three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Elena Gallo , Rob Fender , Guy Pooley

GX 339$-$4 is one of the prototypical black hole X-ray transients, exhibiting recurrent outbursts that allow detailed studies of black hole accretion and ejection phenomena. In this work we present four epochs of optical and near-infrared…

To investigate further the comparison between AGN and black hole X-ray binaries, we have studied the main X-ray variability properties of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy Markarian 335. We put particular emphasis on the X-ray time lags, which is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Arevalo , I. M. McHardy , D. P. Summons

Luminous accreting stellar mass and supermassive black holes produce power-law continuum X-ray emission from a compact central corona. Reverberation time lags occur due to light travel time-delays between changes in the direct coronal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 P. Uttley , E. M. Cackett , A. C. Fabian , E. Kara , D. R. Wilkins

We show an analysis of the spectral and timing properties of X-ray radiation from Z-source during its evolutions when the electron temperature of the Transition Layer (TL) kT_e monotonically decreases from 21 to 3 keV. We analyze episodes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Elena Seifina , Lev Titarchuk , Filippo Frontera

We report on a multi-epoch campaign of rapid optical/X-ray timing observations of the superbright 2018 outburst of MAXI J1820+070, a black hole low-mass X-ray binary system. The observations spanned 80 days in the initial hard-state, and…

We study the hard-X-ray spectral properties of ten highly luminous radio-quiet (RQ) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z=1.3-3.2, including new XMM-Newton observations of four of these sources. We find a significant correlation between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ohad Shemmer , W. N. Brandt , Hagai Netzer , Roberto Maiolino , Shai Kaspi

Neutron star X-ray binaries emit a compact, optically thick, relativistic radio jet during low-luminosity, usually hard states, as Galactic black-hole X-ray binaries do. When radio emission is bright, a hard power-law tail without evidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 P. Reig , N. Kylafis

We report on two epochs of simultaneous near-infrared (IR) and X-ray observations with a sub-second time resolution of the low mass X-ray binary black hole candidate Swift J1753.5--0127 during its long 2005--2016 outburst. Data were…

Context: Theoretical modelling of time-lags between variations in the Fe K$\alpha$ emission and the X-ray continuum might shed light on the physics and geometry of the X-ray emitting region in active galaxies (AGN) and X-ray binaries. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-19 A. Epitropakis , I. E. Papadakis , M. Dovčiak , T. Pecháček , D. Emmanoulopoulos , V. Karas , I. M. McHardy

On 2004 August 15, we observed a fast (shorter than 10 hours) state transition in the bright black-hole transient GX 339-4 simultaneously with RossiXTE and INTEGRAL. This transition was evident both in timing and spectral properties.…

The temporal properties of a sample of 498 bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with durations between 0.05 s and 674 s were analysed. The large range in duration (T90) is accompanied by a similarly large range in the median values of the pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. McBreen , B. McBreen , F. Quilligan , L. Hanlon

We report on a timing analysis of a new ~630ks XMM-Newton observation of the quasar, PG 1211+143. We find a well-defined X-ray power spectrum with a well-detected bend at ~7e-5 Hz, consistent with the established…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew Lobban , Simon Vaughan , Ken Pounds , James Reeves

MCG-6-30-15 is one of the most observed Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the X-ray band. In this paper we examine the X-ray time lags in this source using a total of 600 ks in observations (440 ks exposure) taken with the XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Kara , A. C. Fabian , A. Marinucci , G. Matt , M. L. Parker , W. Alston , L. W. Brenneman , E. M. Cackett , G. Miniutti

The evolution of the inner accretion flow of a black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) during the outburst is still a matter of active research. X-ray reverberation lags are powerful tools to constrain the disk-corona geometry. We present a study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 B. De Marco , G. Ponti

The existing radio and X-ray flux correlation for Galactic black holes in the hard and quiescent states relies on a sample which is mostly dominated by two sources (GX 339-4 and V404 Cyg) observed in a single outburst. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Corbel , M. Coriat , C. Brocksopp , A. K. Tzioumis , R. P. Fender , J. A. Tomsick , M. M. Buxton , C. D. Bailyn

GX~339$-$4 is a black hole X-ray binary that is a key focus of accretion studies since it goes into outburst roughly every two-to-three years. Tracking of its radio, IR and X-ray flux during multiple outbursts reveals tight broadband…