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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

We report the results of a systematic timing analysis of RXTE observations of GRS 1915+105 when the source was in its variability class theta, characterized by alternating soft and hard states on a time scale of a few hundred seconds. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Belloni , P. Soleri , P. Casella , M. Mendez , S. Migliari

We present the results of a detailed analysis of RXTE observations of class $\omega$ which show an unusual state transition between high-soft and low-soft states in the microquasar GRS 1915+105. Out of about 600 pointed RXTE observations,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Naik , A. R. Rao , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We present a comprehensive study of GRS 1915+105 in wide energy band ($0.5-60$ keV) using AstroSat observations during the period of $2016-2019$. The MAXI X-ray lightcurve of the source shows rise and decay profiles similar to canonical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Athulya M. P. , Radhika D. , V. K. Agrawal , Ravishankar B. T. , Sachindra Naik , Samir Mandal , Anuj Nandi

We present a study of the properties of strong 0.8-3.0 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) that occurred during 1997 RXTE observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 in the low-hard state. The high count rates allow us to track…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John A. Tomsick , Philip Kaaret

We present the results of a detailed analysis of RXTE observations which show an unusual state transition between high-soft and low-soft states in the microquasar GRS 1915+105. The RXTE pointed observations reveal that these events appeared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Naik , A. R. Rao , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

We present a comprehensive spectro-temporal analysis of GRS $1915+105$ observed with AstroSat during June, $2017$. A detailed study of the temporal properties reveals the appearance of an `unknown' variability class ($\tau$) during $\rho…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Seshadri Majumder , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi

We present a comprehensive analysis of the 'canonical' soft state ($\gamma$, $\delta$, and $\phi$ spectral variability classes) of the black hole binary GRS 1915+105, using RXTE, AstroSat, and NuSTAR data from 1996 to 2017 to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Prajjwal Majumder , Broja G. Dutta , Anuj Nandi

We report the results of AstroSat observations of GRS 1915$+$105 obtained using 100 ks guaranteed-time (GT) during the soft state. The Color-Color Diagram (CCD) indicates a variability class of $\delta$ with the detection of High Frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Sreehari H. , Anuj Nandi , Santabrata Das , V. K. Agrawal , Samir Mandal , M. C. Ramadevi , Tilak Katoch

The Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 shows rich variability which is categorized into different classes. In this paper, we report temporal and spectral analysis of GRS 1915+105 to study the properties of the accretion flow when the light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Anuvab Banerjee , Ayan Bhattacharjee , Debjit Chatterjee , Dipak Debnath , Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti , Tilak Katoch , H. M. Antia

We present a model-independent analysis of the short-timescale energy dependence of low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the X-ray flux of GRS 1915+105. The QPO frequency in this source has previously been observed to depend…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Jakob van den Eijnden , Adam Ingram , Phil Uttley

We made a phase-resolved timing analysis of GRS 1915+105 in its {\rho} state and obtained detailed {\rho} cycle evolutions of the frequency, the amplitude and the coherence of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (LFQPO). We combined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-26 Shu-Ping Yan , Na Wang , Guo-Qiang Ding , Jin-Lu Qu

We have used Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data to measure the lags between soft (2-5 keV) and hard (5-13 keV) photons and to study the aperiodic variability of the superluminal black hole candidate GRS 1915+105 during low-flux states. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-13 P. Reig , T. Belloni , M. van der Klis , M. Mendez , N. Kylafis , E. C. Ford

The galactic micro-quasar source GRS 1915+105 has been observed with the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE) several times over a period extending from 1996 to 2000. The source has been observed in different luminosity states and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Naik , P. C. Agrawal , B. Paul , A. R. Rao , J. S. Yadav , S. Seetha

From data obtained from the PCA in the 2-11 keV and 11-30.5 keV energy range, GRS 1915+105 is seen during RXTE observations between 1996 May and October on two separate branches in a hardness intensity diagram. On the hard branch, GRS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xingming Chen , Jean H. Swank , Ronald E. Taam

Utilizing NICER observations, we present an analysis of the soft X-ray re-brightening event of GRS 1915+105 observed in 2021. During this event, we observed the emergence of a stable, long-lasting low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Ling-Da Kong , Long Ji , Andrea Santangelo , Meng-Lei Zhou , Qing-Cang Shui , Shu Zhang

The Galactic microquasars GRS1915+105 and GRO J1655-40 were targets for dedicated monitoring programs with RXTE throughout 1996 and 1997. We review recent results with particular attention to the X-ray QPOs seen in these sources. We confirm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. A. Remillard , E. H. Morgan

We analysed 9 RXTE/PCA observations of GRS 1915+105 in the flaring state, when the hardness of the source spectrum was changing on the time scales from few seconds up to 1000 seconds. The quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Trudolyubov , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov

We report a comprehensive study on spectral and timing properties of hard X-ray dips uniquely observed in some so-called variability classes of the micro-quasars GRS 1915+105 and IGR J17091-3624. These dips are characterized by a sudden…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Mayukh Pahari , J. S. Yadav , Jerome Rodriguez , Ranjeev Misra , Sudip Bhattacharyya , S. K. Pandey

We present results from the analysis of X-ray energy spectra and quasi- periodic oscillations (QPOs) from a set of observations which samples a broad range of time variability in GRS 1915+105. We first demonstrate that the frequency and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael P. Muno , Edward H. Morgan , Ronald A. Remillard