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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 the spectral and timing analysis of X-ray observations performed on the Galactic black hole transient GRS 1716-249 during the 2016-2017 outburst. The source was almost continuously observed with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 T. Bassi , M. Del Santo , A. D'Aì , S. E. Motta , J. Malzac , A. Segreto , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , P. Atri , R. M. Plotkin , T. M. Belloni , T. Mineo , A. K. Tzioumis

We have analyzed publicly available RXTE/PCAs archival data of GRS 1915+105 during its burst/flaring state. The burst cycle ranges from 30 to 1300 s. These bursts are different from the type I and type II classical bursts seen in Low Mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. S. Yadav , A. R. Rao

We report on the results of spectral fits made to a NuSTAR observation of the black hole GRS 1915+105 in a "plateau" state. This state is of special interest because it is similar to the "low/hard" state seen in other black holes,…

We report results from long-term (approximately 1240 days) X-ray (0.3-8.0 keV) monitoring of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5408 X-1 with the Swift/X-Ray Telescope. Here we expand on earlier work by Strohmayer (2009) who used only a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Dheeraj R. Pasham , Tod E. Strohmayer

OAO 1657-415 is an eclipsing X-ray binary wind-fed pulsar that has exhibited smooth spin-up/spin-down episodes and has undergone several torque reversals throughout its long history of observation. We present a frequency history spanning…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 P. A. Jenke , M. H. Finger , C. A. Wilson-Hodge , A. Camero-Arranz

To understand the evolution of global accretion disk structure in the ``rebrightening'' phase of MAXI J1820$+$070, we perform a comprehensive analysis of its near infrared/optical/UV to X-ray spectral energy distribution (SED) utilizing…

XMM-Newton observations of the polar SDSSJ155331.12+551614.5 reveal that all the X-ray flux emerges at energies less than 2 keV. The best fit to the spectrum is with a thermal plasma with kT=0.8 keV plus a 20-90 ev black body, yielding a…

We present an instability, occurring in the inner region of magnetized accretion disks, which seems to be a good candidate to explain the low-frequency QPO observed in many X-ray binaries. We then briefly show how, in the remarkable case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michel Tagger

We present the first detections of the black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 at sub-millimetre wavelengths. We clearly detect the source at 350 GHz on two epochs, with significant variability over the 24 hr between epochs. Quasi-simultaneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. N. Ogley , S. J. Bell Burnell , R. P. Fender , G. G. Pooley , E. B. Waltman

Radio imaging of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) during various flaring, quiescent, or oscillatory states of the black hole binary, always resolves the nucleus as a compact jet of length about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Dhawan , I. F. Mirabel , L. F. Rodriguez

Suzaku observations are presented for the high-mass X-ray binaries IGR J16207-5129 and IGR J17391-3021 (=XTE J1739-302). For IGR J16207-5129, we provide the first X-ray broadband (0.5--60 keV) spectrum from which we confirm a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Bodaghee , J. A. Tomsick , J. Rodriguez , S. Chaty , K. Pottschmidt , R. Walter , P. Romano

After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target…

We examine the X-ray spectral and temporal behavior of the Galactic black hole candidate source GRS 1915+105 during its spectral state transition observed in 1997 March - August. The source was making a slow transition from a low-hard state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. R. Rao , J. S. Yadav , B. Paul

We present evidence that ~ 30 minute episodes of jet formation in GRS 1915+105 may sometimes be a superposition of smaller, faster phenomena. Based on observations in 2002 July using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer and the Palomar 5 meter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David M. Rothstein , Stephen S. Eikenberry , Keith Matthews

We explore the evolution in power of black holes of all masses, and their associated jets, within the scheme of an accretion rate-dependent state transition. Below a critical value of the accretion rate all systems are assumed to undergo a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Heino Falcke , Elmar Koerding , Sera Markoff

Continuing our study of the role and evolution of accretion disc winds in the microquasar GRS 1915+105, we present high-resolution spectral variability analysis of the beta and gamma states with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Joseph Neilsen , Andrew J. Petschek , Julia C. Lee

We report the analysis of the first superburst from a transiently accreting neutron star system with the All-Sky Monitor (ASM) on the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The superburst occurred 55 days after the onset of an accretion outburst in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Keek , J. J. M. in 't Zand , E. Kuulkers , A. Cumming , E. F. Brown , M. Suzuki

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the low mass X-ray binary GR Mus (XB 1254-690), and find strong evidence for the presence of a negative superhump with a period that is 2.4+/-0.3% shorter than the orbital. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 R. Cornelisse , M. M. Kotze , J. Casares , P. A. Charles , P. J. Hakala

We report on the evolution of the X-ray emission of the accreting neutron star (NS) low mass X-ray binary (LMXB), MXB 1659-298, during its most recent outburst in 2015-2017. We detected 60 absorption lines during the soft state (of which 21…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 G. Ponti , S. Bianchi , B. De Marco , A. Bahramian , N. Degenaar , C. O. Heinke