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The microquasar GRS 1915+105 is known to exhibit a very variable X-ray emission on different time scales and patterns. We propose a system of two ordinary differential equations, adapted from the Hindmarsh-Rose model, with two dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-17 E. Massaro , F. Capitanio , M. Feroci , T. Mineo , A. Ardito , P. Ricciardi

The microquasar GRS 1915+105, exhibits a large variety of characteristic states, according to its luminosity, spectral state, and variability. The most interesting one is the so-called rho-state, whose light curve shows recurrent bursts.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-30 E. Massaro , A. Ardito , P. Ricciardi , F. Massa , T. Mineo , A. D'Ai'

Nonlinear time series analysis has been widely used to search for signatures of low-dimensional chaos in light curves emanating from astrophysical bodies. A particularly popular example is the microquasar GRS 1915+105, whose irregular but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-20 Manu Mannattil , Himanshu Gupta , Sagar Chakraborty

The X-ray emission from the microquasar GRS 1515+105 shows, together with a very complex variability on different time scales, the presence of low-frequency quasi periodic oscillations (LFQPO) at frequencies lower than 30 Hz. In this paper,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-17 E. Massaro , F. Capitanio , M. Feroci , T. Mineo

We analyzed 163 observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in the period 1996-1997. For each observation, we produced light curves and color-color diagrams. We classified the observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Belloni , M. Klein-Wolt , M. Mendez , M. van der Klis , J. van Paradijs

Black hole binaries are variable in timescales of rang from months to milli-seconds. The origin of this variability is still not clear, it could be due to the variation of external parameters, like mass accretion rate, instabilities in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

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

The light curve of the galactic micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 changes in at least thirteen different ways which are called classes. We present examples of the transitions from one class to another as observed by the IXAE instrument aboard the…

Using non-linear time series analysis, along with surrogate data analysis, it is shown that the various types of long term variability exhibited by the black hole system GRS 1915+105, can be explained in terms of a deterministic non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Misra , K. P. Harikrishnan , G. Ambika , A. K. Kembhavi

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

From the study of X-ray light curve and color-color diagram of the low mass X-ray binary GRS 1915+105, observed by on board proportional counter array (PCA) of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we discover a new class of variability,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-26 Mayukh Pahari , Sabyasachi Pal

We present a detailed X-ray study of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 during a variability class transition observed in 2000 June with the PPCs of the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment. We supplement this observation with data from the RXTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Naik , P. C. Agrawal , A. R. Rao , B. Paul

The Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 exhibits at least sixteen types of variability classes. Transitions from one class to another could take place in a matter of hours. In some of the classes, the spectral state transitions (burst-off to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-06 Partha Sarathi Pal , Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Anuj Nandi

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

A modified non-linear time series analysis technique, which computes the correlation dimension $D_2$, is used to analyze the X-ray light curves of the black hole system GRS 1915+105 in all twelve temporal classes. For four of these temporal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Misra , K. P. Harikrishnan , B. Mukhopadhyay , G. Ambika , A. K. Kembhavi

Using observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, we examine the behavior of 2-10 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) during spectrally-hard dips in the x-ray light curve of GRS 1915+105 that are accompanied by infrared flares. Of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. J. Mikles , S. S. Eikenberry , D. M. Rothstein

To understand the bursting behavior of the microquasar GRS 1915+105, we calculate time evolution of a luminous, optically thick accretion disk around a stellar mass black hole undergoing limit-cycle oscillations between the high- and low-…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken-ya Watarai , Shin Mineshige

The origin of the large-amplitude, quasi-periodic X-ray flux variations in several classes of the Galactic microquasar GRS~1915+105 remains unresolved. We address this issue through flux-resolved, broadband (0.8-20 keV) spectral modelling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Shree Suman , Shuvajit Khatua , Vishal Jadoliya , Prathamesh Narayan Gupta , Mayukh Pahari

We have analyzed the X-ray spectra of the microquasar GRS 1915+105, as observed with the PCA on the Rossi XTE, during periods of stable weak emission, outbursts and rapid flaring. We find that the complicated X-ray intensity curve of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Belloni , M. Mendez , A. R. King , M. van der Klis , J. van Paradijs

We explore the timing and spectral properties of GRS 1915+105 based on X-ray observations of NICER and Insight-HXMT during the long outburst from 2017 to 2021. We find a new class of variability in the rising stage of the outburst that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Zhihong Shi , Qingwen Wu , Zhen Yan , Bing Lyu , Hao Liu
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