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We present the first detailed phase-resolved spectral analysis of a joint Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation of the rho variability class in the microquasar GRS 1915+105. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Joseph Neilsen , Ronald A. Remillard , Julia C. Lee

GRS 1915+105 has been active for more than 26 years since it was discovered in 1992. There are hundreds of RXTE pointed observations on this source, and the quasi-regular flares with a slow rise and a sharp decrease (i.e. the "heartbeat"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Shan-Shan Weng , Ting-Ting Wang , Jing-Ping Cai , Qi-Rong Yuan , Wei-Min Gu

AstroSat spectra of the black hole system GRS 1915+105 during the heartbeat state (with a varying oscillation period from 150 to 100 secs) were analysed using a truncated relativistic disc model along with a Comptonization component.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Divya Rawat , Ranjeev Misra , Pankaj Jain , J. S. Yadav

The Galactic superluminal source GRS 1915+105 was found to experience a peculiar X-ray variability in a narrow count rate range of the PCA detector onboard RXTE. This can be seen as a ring-shaped pattern in the two-color diagram of count…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Osmi Vilhu , Jukka Nevalainen

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

In this study, we undertake a spectral-timing analysis of the black hole X-ray binary source GRS 1915+105 using simultaneous observations carried out by AstroSat (LAXPC and SXT) and NICER in 2017. The source showed two flux levels (high and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-07 Ruchika Dhaka , Ranjeev Misra , JS Yadav , Pankaj Jain

The RXTE observations of GRS 1915+105 have given a new impulse to the study of spectral and timing properties of the X-ray emission of black hole candidates. At variance with any other known source, GRS 1915+105 shows dramatic changes on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomaso Belloni

To understand the nature of supercritical accretion, we systematically analyze the {\it RXTE}/PCA data of GRS 1915+105 in its quasi-steady states, by choosing data with small variability during 1999 -- 2000. We apply a multicolor disk plus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 K. Vierdayanti , S. Mineshige , Y. Ueda

We present a timing analysis of two Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 during the heartbeat state. The phase-frequency-power maps show that the intermediate-frequency aperiodic X-ray variability weakens…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-22 Shu-Ping Yan , Li Ji , Mariano Méndez , Si-Ming Liu , Na Wang , Xiang-Dong Li , Ming-Yu Ge , Jin-Yuan Liao , Shu Niu , Jin-Lu Qu , Guo-Qiang Ding , Qing-Zhong Liu , Wei Sun

GRS 1915+105 was the first stellar-mass black-hole in our Galaxy to display a superluminal radio jet, similar to those observed in active galactic nuclei with a supermassive black hole at the centre. It has been proposed that the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 Mariano Mendez , Konstantinos Karpouzas , Federico Garcia , Liang Zhang , Yuexin Zhang , Tomaso M. Belloni , Diego Altamirano

GRS 1915+105 is a transient black hole X-ray binary consistently emitting 10-100% of the Eddington luminosity in the X-ray band during the last three decades until mid-2018 when the source luminosity suddenly decreased by an order of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Talvikki Hovatta

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

Powerful relativistic jets are one of the ubiquitous features of accreting black holes in all scales. GRS 1915+105 is a well-known fast-spinning black-hole X-ray binary with a relativistic jet, termed as a ``microquasar'', as indicated by…

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

We report the discovery of two new types of variability in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary MXB 1730-335 (the 'Rapid Burster'). In one observation in 1999, it exhibits a large-amplitude quasi-periodic oscillation with a period of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Bagnoli , J. J. M. in 't Zand

We report simultaneous observations of the black hole candidate X-ray transient GRS 1915+105 in the infrared at K and in the radio at 2 cm. Oscillations of period 26 min were observed in both wavebands, having (dereddened) peak--peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. P. Fender , G. G. Pooley

We combine a complete sample of 113 pointed observations taken with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer between 1996-1999, monitoring observations taken with the Ryle telescope and the Green Bank Interferometer, and selected observations with…

We report simultaneous millimetre and infrared observations of a sequence of very large amplitude quasi-periodic oscillations from the black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105. These oscillations are near the end of a sequence of over 700…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. P. Fender , G. G. Pooley

Timing analysis provides information about the dynamics of matter accreting on to neutron stars and black holes, and hence is crucial for studying the physics of the accretion flow around these objects. It is difficult, however, to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Shu-Ping Yan , Li Ji , Si-Ming Liu , Mariano Méndez , Na Wang , Xiang-Dong Li , Jin-Lu Qu , Wei Sun , Ming-Yu Ge , Jin-Yuan Liao , Shu Niu , Guo-Qiang Ding , Qing-Zhong Liu

We use data obtained with the PCA onboard RXTE to analyze the spectral variations of the black hole candidate and superluminal source GRS 1915+105. Our results suggest that despite the complicated structure of the X-ray light curve, all…

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