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GRS 1915+105 shows at least twelve distinct classes of light curves. By analysing the data obtained from Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE) instrument aboard IRS-P3 satellite, we show that in at least two days, transitions between one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , A. Nandi , Asit Choudhury , Utpal Chatterjee

VY Scl binaries are a sub-class of cataclysmic variable (CV) which show extended low states, but do not show outbursts which are seen in other classes of CV. To better determine how often these systems spend in low states and to resolve the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 C. Duffy , Kinwah Wu , G. Ramsay , Matt A. Wood , Paul A. Mason , Pasi Hakala , D. Steeghs

BeppoSAX observed GRS 1915+105 on October 2000 with a long pointing lasting about ten days. During this observation, the source was mainly in the rho class characterized by bursts with a recurrence time of between 40 and 100 s. We identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Mineo , E. Massaro , A. D'Ai , F. Massa , M. Feroci , G. Ventura , P. Casella , C. Ferrigno , T. Belloni

The galactic superluminal transient X-ray source GRS 1915+105 was observed with the pointed proportional counters (PPCs) onboard the Indian satellite IRS-P3 during 1996 July 23-27. We report here details of the behavior of this source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. Paul , P. C. Agrawal , A. R. Rao

We present spectral and timing properties of the newly discovered X-ray transient source, MAXI J1535-571, which is believed to be a Galactic X-ray binary containing a black hole candidate (BHC) as the primary object. After its discovery on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 J. -R. Shang , D. Debnath , D. Chatterjee , A. Jana , S. K. Chakrabarti , H. -K. Chang , Y. -X. Yap , C. -L. Chiu

Atmospheric flows exhibit long-range spatiotemporal correlations manifested as the fractal geometry to the global cloud cover pattern concomitant with inverse power-law form for power spectra of temporal fluctuations of all scales ranging…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Selvam , S. Fadnavis

(Abridged) We report the results of monitoring observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 performed simultaneously with INTEGRAL and RXTE Ryle . We present the results of the whole \integral campaign, report the sources that are…

The black hole candidates exhibit fast variability of their X-ray emission on a wide range of timescales. The short, coherent variations, with frequencies above 1 Hz, are referred to as quasi-periodic oscillations, and are generally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-10 Petra Suková , Mikolaj Grzedzielski , Agnieszka Janiuk

X-ray observations of the binary pulsar GX 1+4 made using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite between February 1996 and May 1997 were analysed to quantify source spectral variation with luminosity. Mean Proportional Counter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. K. Galloway

The motion of rarefied gases for uniform shear flow at the kinetic level is governed by the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with a deformation force. In the paper we study the corresponding Cauchy problem with initial data of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

We conducted a detailed long-term spectral and temporal study of flat spectrum radio quasar 4C +01.02, by using the multi-wavelength observations from Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and Swift-UVOT. The $2$-day bin $\gamma$-ray lightcurve in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Malik Zahoor , Shah Zahir , Sunder Sahayanathan , Naseer Iqbal , Aaqib Manzoor

We derive the transient-time correlation function (TTCF) expression for the computation of phase variables of inhomogenous confined atomistic fluids undergoing boundary-driven planar shear (Couette) flow at constant pressure. Using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-24 Luca Maffioli , Edward R. Smith , James P. Ewen , Peter J. Daivis , Daniele Dini , B. D. Todd

We explore the observational appearance of the photosphere of an ultrarelativistic flow with internal dissipation of energy as predicted by the magnetic reconnection model. Previous study of the radiative transfer in the photospheric region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dimitrios Giannios , Henk C. Spruit

GRS 1915+105 is a prominent black hole system exhibiting variability over a wide range of time scales and its observed light curves have been classified into 12 temporal states. Here we undertake a complete analysis of these light curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 K. P. Harikrishnan , R. Misra , G. Ambika

In accretion systems, outflows may have significant influence on the luminosity fluctuations. In this paper, following the Lyubarskii's general scheme, we revisit the power spectral density of luminosity fluctuations by taking into account…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-31 Da-Bin Lin , Wei-Min Gu , Tong Liu , Ju-Fu Lu

We studied the evolution of two small flares (GOES class C2 and C1) that developed in the same active region with different morphological characteristics: one is extended and the other is compact. We analyzed the accuracy and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Maltagliati , A. Falchi , L. Teriaca

We have analyzed the spectral variations of the superluminal black-hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 by using data obtained with the PCA on the Rossi XTE. We find that, despite the marked differences in the structure and the time scale of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 T. Belloni , M. Mendez , A. R. King , M. van der Klis , J. van Paradijs

We report high sensitivity dual-frequency observations of radio oscillations from GRS 1915+105 following the decay of a major flare event in 2000 July. The oscillations are clearly observed at both frequencies, and the time-resolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. P. Fender , D. Rayner , S. A. Trushkin , K. O'Brien , R. J. Sault , G. G. Pooley , R. P. Norris

GRS 1915+105 was observed by the CGRO/OSSE 9 times in 1995-2000, and 8 of those observations were simultaneous with those by RXTE. We present an analysis of all of the OSSE data and of two RXTE-OSSE spectra with the lowest and highest X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , J. Eric Grove , Juri Poutanen , A. R. Rao , S. V. Vadawale

In this Letter we propose a simple thermal comptonization model to account for the observed properties of the phase lags associated to the ``plateau'' intervals of GRS 1915+105. By invoking a temperature stratification in a corona and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Nobili , R. Turolla , L. Zampieri , T. Belloni