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We present a comprehensive analysis of Low Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillation (LFQPO) associated time-lags in the persistently variable black hole binary GRS 1915+105 using 441 ks of \textit{AstroSat} observations from March 2016 to March…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Prajjwal Majumder , Broja G. Dutta , Anuj Nandi

We present a comprehensive analysis of the 'canonical' soft state ($\gamma$, $\delta$, and $\phi$ spectral variability classes) of the black hole binary GRS 1915+105, using RXTE, AstroSat, and NuSTAR data from 1996 to 2017 to investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Prajjwal Majumder , Broja G. Dutta , Anuj Nandi

We have used Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data to measure the lags between soft (2-5 keV) and hard (5-13 keV) photons and to study the aperiodic variability of the superluminal black hole candidate GRS 1915+105 during low-flux states. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-13 P. Reig , T. Belloni , M. van der Klis , M. Mendez , N. Kylafis , E. C. Ford

From the analysis of more than 92 ks of data obtained with the laxpc instrument on board Astrosat we have detected a clear high-frequency QPO whose frequency varies between 67.4 and 72.3 Hz. In the classification of variability classes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Tomaso M. Belloni , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Pietro Caccese , Varun Bhalerao , Santosh Vadawale , J. S. Yadav

We report the results of AstroSat observations of GRS 1915$+$105 obtained using 100 ks guaranteed-time (GT) during the soft state. The Color-Color Diagram (CCD) indicates a variability class of $\delta$ with the detection of High Frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Sreehari H. , Anuj Nandi , Santabrata Das , V. K. Agrawal , Samir Mandal , M. C. Ramadevi , Tilak Katoch

We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of the 'softer' variability classes ($i.e.$, $\theta$, $\beta$, $\delta$, $\rho$, $\kappa$, $\omega$ and $\gamma$) of the source GRS 1915+105 observed by AstroSat during $2016-2021$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Seshadri Majumder , H. Sreehari , Nafisa Aftab , Tilak Katoch , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi

The properties of sub-second time variability of the X-ray emission of the black-hole binary GRS 1915+105 are very complex and strictly connected to its patterns of variability observed on long time scales. A key aspect for determining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-23 Tomaso M. Belloni , Mariano Mendez , Federico Garcia , Dipankar Bhattacharya

From data obtained from the PCA in the 2-11 keV and 11-30.5 keV energy range, GRS 1915+105 is seen during RXTE observations between 1996 May and October on two separate branches in a hardness intensity diagram. On the hard branch, GRS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Xingming Chen , Jean H. Swank , Ronald E. Taam

We present the first quick look analysis of data from nine {\it AstroSat}'s LAXPC observations of GRS 1915+105 during March 2016 when the source had the characteristics of being in Radio-quiet $\chi$ class. We find that a simple empirical…

I report the discovery of hard X-ray phase lags associated with the famous 67 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in microquasar GRS 1915+105. The QPO is seen on multiple occasions. For this investigation, I have chosen one particular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Cui

We measured the phase-lag spectrum of the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in the black hole systems (at QPO frequencies) GRS 1915+105 (35 Hz and 67 Hz), GRO J1655-40 (300 Hz and 450 Hz), XTE J1550-564 (180 Hz and 280 Hz),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Mariano Mendez , Diego Altamirano , Tomaso Belloni , Andrea Sanna

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

Using the Insight-HXMT observations of GRS 1915+105 when it exhibits low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), we measure the evolution of the QPO frequency along with disk inner radius and mass accretion rate. We find a tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Honghui Liu , Long Ji , Cosimo Bambi , Pankaj Jain , Ranjeev Misra , Divya Rawat , J. S. Yadav , Yuexin Zhang

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

We analyze a set of three RXTE Target of Opportunity observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105, observed on April 2000, during a multi-wavelength campaign. During the three observations, a strong, variable low frequency (2-9 Hz)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Rodriguez , Ph. Durouchoux , I. F. Mirabel , Y. Ueda , M. Tagger , K. Yamaoka

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 a study of the properties of strong 0.8-3.0 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) that occurred during 1997 RXTE observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 in the low-hard state. The high count rates allow us to track…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John A. Tomsick , Philip Kaaret

GRS 1915+105 can show type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the power density spectrum. A high-frequency QPO (HFQPO) at 67 Hz has been observed in this source, albeit less often than the type-C QPOs. Besides these features, GRS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Yuexin Zhang , Mariano Méndez , Federico García , Konstantinos Karpouzas , Liang Zhang , Honghui Liu , Tomaso M. Belloni , Diego Altamirano

We report the results of a systematic timing analysis of all archival Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of the bright black-hole binary GRS 1915+105 in order to detect high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPO). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Tomaso M. Belloni , Diego Altamirano

We present a comprehensive spectro-temporal analysis of GRS $1915+105$ observed with AstroSat during June, $2017$. A detailed study of the temporal properties reveals the appearance of an `unknown' variability class ($\tau$) during $\rho…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Seshadri Majumder , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi
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