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LMC X-1, a persistent, rapidly rotating, extra-galactic, black hole X-ray binary (BHXB) discovered in 1969, has always been observed in its high soft state. Unlike many other BHXBs, the black hole mass, source distance and binary orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Sneha Prakash Mudambi , A. Rao , S. B. Gudennavar , R. Misra , S. G. Bubbly

We study the structure of the accretion flow in the hard state of the black-hole X-ray binary MAXI~J1820+070 with \nicer data. The power spectra show broadband variability which can be fit with four Lorentzian components peaking at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Marta A. Dziełak , Barbara De Marco , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

We present an analysis of the covariance spectrum of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 during its hard state. For the first time, we extend coherence and covariance studies into the hard X-ray band up to 150 keV. We detect a clear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Shuai-Kang Yang , Bei You , Niek Bollemeijer , Phil Uttley , A. J. Tetarenko , Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Liang Chen , P. Casella , J. A. Paice , Yang Bai , Sai-En Xu

We analyzed two observations of the low-mass black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-630 from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) during low hard state and hard intermediate state in the 2019 outburst. The reflection components are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-27 Hanji Wu , Wei Wang , Na Sai

The microquasar MAXI J\(1820+070\) went into outburst from mid-March until mid-July 2018 with several faint rebrightenings afterwards. With a peak flux of approximately 4 Crab in the \(20-50\) keV, energy range the source was monitored…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 J. Rodi , A. Tramacere , F. Onori , G. Bruni , C. Sánchez-Fernández , M. Fiocchi , L. Natalucci , P. Ubertini

We report on our investigation of the NuSTAR and AstroSat observations along with simultaneous NICER observations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4$-$3658, obtained during its tenth outburst from 2022. The NuSTAR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Rahul Sharma , Andrea Sanna , Prince Sharma

The observational signatures of black holes in x-ray binary systems depend on their masses, spins, accretion rate and the misalignment angle between the black hole spin and the orbital angular momentum. We present optical polarimetric…

We report the discovery of a luminous ultra-soft X-ray excess in a radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert1 galaxy, RXJ1633+4718, from archival ROSAT observations. The thermal temperature of this emission, when fitted with a blackbody, is as low as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Weimin Yuan , Bifang Liu , Hongyan Zhou , Tinggui Wang

[Abridged] Context: We present a systematic X-ray spectral-timing study of the recently discovered, exceptionally bright black hole X-ray binary system MAXI J1820+070. Our analysis focuses on the first part of the 2018 outburst, covering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 B. De Marco , A. A. Zdziarski , G. Ponti , G. Migliori , T. M. Belloni , A. Segovia Otero , M. Dziełak , E. V. Lai

We present a detailed timing analysis of the bright black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 (ASASSN-18ey), during its first detected outburst lasting from March 2018 until October 2019 based on Swift/XRT window timing mode observations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 H. Stiele , A. K. H. Kong

We present the discovery of ASASSN-18ey (MAXI J1820+070), a new black hole low-mass X-ray binary discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN). A week after ASAS-SN discovered ASASSN-18ey as an optical transient, it…

X-ray spectroscopy of galactic black hole binaries serve as a powerful tool to gain an overall understanding of the system. Not only can the properties of the accretion disk be studied in detail, the fundamental properties of the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-16 Sandeep K. Rout , Santosh Vadawale , Javier Garcia , Riley Connors

The transient X-ray source MAXI J1810-222 was discovered in 2018 and has been active ever since. A long combined radio and X-ray monitoring campaign was performed with ATCA and Swift respectively. It has been proposed that MAXI J1810-222 is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 M. Del Santo , C. Pinto , A. Marino , A. D'Aì , P. -O. Petrucci , J. Malzac , J. Ferreira , F. Pintore , S. E. Motta , T. D. Russell , A. Segreto , A. Sanna

We report on the detection and follow-up multi-wavelength observations of the new X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132 with the MAXI/GSC, Swift, and ground-based optical telescopes. The source was first recognized with the MAXI/GSC on 2017 March…

We present a broadband spectral analysis of the soft-intermediate and soft states using \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations of the black hole binary MAXI J1348--630 during its outburst in 2019. We employ a combination of reflection and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 J. Guan , R. C. Ma , L. Tao , A. C. Fabian , J. A. Tomsick , S. N. Zhang , L. Zhang , J. L. Qu , S. Zhang

We constrain the spin of the black hole (BH) candidate MAXI J1727-203 using Insight-HXMT data. Due to limited HXMT observations covering only part of the outburst, NICER data were used to analyze the full outburst's state transitions, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Haifan Zhu , Wei Wang

MAXI J1348-630 is a low-mass X-ray black hole binary located in the Galaxy and undergone the X-ray outburst in 2019. We analyzed the observation data in very soft state during the outburst between MJD 58588 and MJD 58596 based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Hanji Wu , Wei Wang , Na Sai , Haifan Zhu , Jiashi Chen

Energy-dependent X-ray power spectral states and Band-Limited Noise (BLN) components have been seen in the low-hard state and intermediate states of black hole X-ray binaries. Here we report our analysis of Insight-HXMT observations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-26 Chenxu Gao , Wenfei Yu , Zhen Yan

We present Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray and Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array radio observations of a rapid hard-to-soft state transition in the black hole X-ray transient MAXI J1820+070. During the transition…

We present our analysis of MAXI J1813-095 during its hard state ``stalled'' outburst in 2018. This self-consistent analysis has been carried out using \NICER, \Swift, \Chandra, and {\NuSTAR} throughout seven observations of MAXI J1813-095.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-23 Santiago Ubach , James F. Steiner , Jiachen Jiang , Javier Garcia , Riley M. T. Connors , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Ye Feng , John A. Tomsick
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