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The cm-wavelength radio flares on Cygnus X-3 have been studied for many years. Our recent paper (Spencer et al., 2022) looked again at the minor flares (flux density S of a few 100 mJy) and compared their properties with those of a sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Ralph E. Spencer , Justin D. Bray , David A. Green , Michael A. Garrett

The microquasar Cygnus X-3 underwent a giant radio flare in April 2017, reaching a maximum flux of $\sim 16.5$ Jy at 8.5 GHz. We present results from a long monitoring campaign carried out with Medicina at 8.5, 18.6 and 24.1 GHz, in…

We have been performing daily observations of bright microquasars at 1.2-20~GHz with the Northern sector of RATAN-600 radio telescope for more than ten years. During the 2019--2021 observations we recorded bright flares, which we call giant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-23 S. A. Trushkin , A. V. Shevchenko , N. N. Bursov , P. G. Tsybulev , N. A. Nizhel'skii , A. N. Borisov , A. A. Kudryashova

We have observed a number of minor radio flares in Cyg X-3 using the MERLIN array. Photometric observations show the system to be highly active with multiple flares on hourly timescales over the one month observing programme. Analysis of…

Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3) is a well-known microquasar with relativistic jets. Cyg X-3 is especially famous for its giant radio outbursts, which have been observed once every few years since their first discovery. Each giant outburst presumably…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Masato Tsuboi , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Atsushi Miyazaki , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Taro Kotani

We present Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) 143.5-MHz radio observations of flaring activity during 2019 May from the X-ray binary Cygnus X-3. Similar to radio observations of previous outbursts from Cygnus X-3, we find that this source was…

In the long-term multi-frequency monitoring program of the microquasars with RATAN-600 we discovered the giant flare from the X-ray binary Cygnus X-3 on 13 September 2016. It happened after 2000 days of the 'quiescent state' of the source…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 S. A. Trushkin , N. A. Nizhelskij , P. G. Tsybulev , G. V. Zhekanis

In September 2016, the microquasar Cygnus X-3 underwent a giant radio flare, which was monitored for 6 days with the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station and the Sardinia Radio Telescope. Long observations were performed in order to follow…

We present simultaneous dual-frequency radio observations of Cygnus X-3 during a phase of low-level activity. We constrain the minimum variability timescale to be 20 minutes at 43 GHz and 30 minutes at 15 GHz, implying source sizes of 2 to…

We present multiwavelength observations of Cygnus X-3 during an extended outburst in 1994 February - March. Intensive radio monitoring at 13.3, 3.6 & 2.0 cm is complemented by observations at (sub)millimetre and infrared wavelengths, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. P. Fender , S. J. Bell Burnell , E. B. Waltman , G. G. Pooley , F. D. Ghigo , R. S. Foster

We have found a large number of very strong flares in the available XTE PCA data of Cyg X-1 (also seen in available HEXTE and BATSE data) with 13 flares satisfying our chosen threshold criterion, occuring both in the hard and the soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marek Gierlinski , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

Cygnus X-3, among the X-ray binaries, is one of the brightest in the radio band, repeatedly exhibiting huge radio flares. The X-ray spectra shows two definite states, low (correspondingly hard) and high (correspondingly soft). During the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Choudhury , A. R. Rao

Cygnus X-3 is a unique microquasar. Its X-ray emission shows a very strong 4.8-hour orbital modulation. But its mass-donating companion is a Wolf-Rayet star. Also unlike most other X-ray binaries Cygnus X-3 is relatively bright in the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-24 M. L. McCollough , K. I. I. Koljonen , D. C. Hannikainen

We study three extraordinarily bright X-ray flares originating from Cyg X-1 seen on 2023 July 10 detected with INTEGRAL. The flares had a duration on the order of only ten minutes each, and within seconds reached a 1-100 keV peak luminosity…

With frequent flaring activity of its relativistic jets, Cygnus X-3 is one of the most active microquasars and is the only Galactic black hole candidate with confirmed high energy Gamma-ray emission, thanks to detections by Fermi/LAT and…

We discuss the results of the radio studies of the X-ray binaries with relativistic jets. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, and Cyg X-3 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Sergei A. Trushkin , Nikolaj A. Nizhelskij , Nikolaj N. Bursov

We report millimetre-wave continuum observations of the X-ray binaries Cygnus X-3, SS 433, LSI+61 303, Cygnus X-1 and GRS 1915+105. The observations were carried out with the IRAM 30 m-antenna at 250 GHz (1.25 mm) from 1998 March 14 to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Paredes , J. Marti , M. Peracaula , G. Pooley , I. F. Mirabel , .

Cyg X-3 is a well-known microquasar with a bipolar relativistic jet. Its famous giant radio outbursts have been repeated once every several years. However, the behavior of the millimeter wave emission has remained unclear because of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Masato Tsuboi , Atsushi Miyazaki , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Taro Kotani
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