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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

MAXI J1820+070 is a newly-discovered black hole X-ray binary, whose dynamical parameters, namely the black hole mass, the inclination angle and the source distance, have been estimated recently. \emph{Insight}-HXMT have observed its entire…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Xueshan Zhao , Lijun Gou , Yanting Dong , Youli Tuo , Zhenxuan Liao , Yufeng Li , Nan Jia , Ye Feng , James F. Steiner

We report the results of fitting Insight-HXMT data to the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-430, which was discovered on January 26th, 2019, with the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on-board MAXI. Several observations at the beginning of the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-30 Yujia Song , Nan Jia , Jun Yang , Ye Feng , Lijun Gou , Tianhua Lu

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 provided a comprehensive study of the properties of the black hole in the low-mass X-ray binary system 4U 1543-47, specifically focusing on the 2021 outburst (MJD 59380-59470). Using observations from the \textit{Insight}-HXMT mission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-25 Jun Yang , Nan Jia , Erlin Qiao , Yujia Song , Lijun Gou

Insight-HXMT is the first Chinese X-ray astronomical mission. With a 1-250 keV bandpass, an energy resolution of 150 eV at 6 keV, and without being subject to pile-up distortions, it is suitable to study bright X-ray sources like Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-28 Qichun Liu , Honghui Liu , Cosimo Bambi , Long Ji

The Galactic black hole candidate MAXI J0637-430 was first discovered by $\textit{MAXI/GSC}$ on 2019 November 02. We study the spectral properties of MAXI J0637-430 by using the archived $\textit{NuSTAR}$ data and $\textit{Swift}$/XRT data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Nan Jia , Ye Feng , Yujia Song , Jun Yang , Jieun Yuh , Peijun Huang , Lijun Gou

The systematic properties are largely unknown for the black hole X-ray binary Swift J151857.0--572147 newly discovered in the 2024 outburst. The nature of a black hole can be completely defined by specifying the mass and dimensionless spin…

As a transient X-ray binary, MAXI J1659-152 contains a black hole candidate as its compact star. MAXI J1659-152 was discovered on 2010 September 25 during its only known outburst. Previously-published studies of this outburst indicate that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-17 Ye Feng , Xueshan Zhao , Lijun Gou , Jianfeng Wu , James F. Steiner , Yufeng Li , Zhenxuan Liao , Nan Jia , Yuan Wang

The black hole candidate XTE J2012+381 underwent an outburst at the end of 2022. We analyzed 105 NICER observations and 2 NuSTAR observations of the source during the outburst. The NuSTAR observations of the $M \sim10M_\odot$ black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Paul A. Draghis , Jon M. Miller , McKinley C. Brumback , Andrew C. Fabian , John A. Tomsick , Abderahmen Zoghbi

We present a spectral analysis of a black hole X-ray binary XTE J2012+381 during its 2022 outburst, using data from NICER and AstroSat. Combining data from NICER, LAXPC20, and SXT, we extract energy spectra covering the 0.7-10.0 keV range.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Vaibhav Sharma , Ranjeev Misra , Shivani Chaudhary , J S Yadav , Pankaj Jain

The black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) Swift J151857.0-572147 was discovered during its first outburst in March 2024. We review the archive of NICER observations from this outburst, focusing on the soft states. We select spectra for which the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-10 Yujia Song , James F. Steiner , Tong Zhao , Yuexin Zhang , Ningyue Fan , Ole König , Santiago Ubach , Josephine Wong , Lijun Gou , Javier A. Garcia

We study the spectral and temporal properties of the black hole X-ray transient binary SLX 1746--331 during the 2023 outburst with NICER, NuSTAR, and Insight-HXMT observations. Through the joint fitting of the spectra from NICER, NuSTAR,…

A sufficiently precise measurement of black hole spin is required to carry out quantitative tests of the Kerr metric and to understand several phenomena related to astrophysical black holes. After 24 years, XTE J2012+381 again underwent an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-11 Raj Kumar

We present an X-ray spectral analysis of a black hole X-ray binary SLX 1746-331 during the 2023 outburst using five \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. We jointly use the reflection model \texttt{relxillcp} and the general relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Jiashi Chen , Wei Wang

We present three simultaneous/quasi-simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift datasets of the black hole GRS 1716-249 in its hard intermediate state. The accretion disk in this state may have reached the innermost stable circular orbit, and the NuSTAR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Lian Tao , John A. Tomsick , Jinlu Qu , Shu Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang , Qingcui Bu

We present an analysis of the whole 2018 outburst of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 with Insight-HXMT data. We focus our study on the temporal evolution of the parameters of the source. We employ two different models to fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-03 Ningyue Fan , Songyu Li , Rui Zhan , Honghui Liu , Zuobin Zhang , Cosimo Bambi , Long Ji , Xiang Ma , James F. Steiner , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Menglei Zhou

The spin of a number of black holes (BHs) in binary systems has been measured. In the case of BHs found in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) the observed values are in agreement with some theoretical predictions based on binary stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-13 Enrique Moreno Méndez , Matteo Cantiello

Black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) play a crucial role in understanding the accretion of matter onto a black hole. Here, we focus on exploring the transient BHXRB \source~discovered by Swift/BAT and MAXI/GSC during its January 2019…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Skye R. Heiland , Arka Chatterjee , Samar Safi-Harb , Arghajit Jana , Jeremy Heyl

The launch of NuSTAR and the increasing number of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected through gravitational wave (GW) observations have exponentially advanced our understanding of black holes. Despite the simplicity owed to being fully…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Paul A. Draghis , Jon M. Miller , Abderahmen Zoghbi , Mark Reynolds , Elisa Costantini , Luigi C. Gallo , John A. Tomsick
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