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We select a sample of 10 radio-quiet quasars with confirmed intranight optical variability and with available X-ray data. We compare the variability properties and the broad band spectral constraints to the predictions of intranight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Czerny , A. Siemiginowska , A. Janiuk , A. C. Gupta

We present 5-GHz MERLIN radio images of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 during two separate outbursts in 2001 March and 2001 July, following the evolution of the jet components as they move outwards from the core of the system. Proper motions…

The origin of the large-amplitude, quasi-periodic X-ray flux variations in several classes of the Galactic microquasar GRS~1915+105 remains unresolved. We address this issue through flux-resolved, broadband (0.8-20 keV) spectral modelling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Shree Suman , Shuvajit Khatua , Vishal Jadoliya , Prathamesh Narayan Gupta , Mayukh Pahari

The two galactic `microquasars' with superluminal radio jets have been quite active during 1996, generatinga variety of studies involving both NASA and ground-based observatories. GRS~1915+105 has displayed dramatic accretion instability in…

The large mechanical luminosity of the jets of GRS 1915+105 should give rise to luminous emission regions, similar to those observed in radio galaxies, where the jets interact with the gas surrounding the source. However, no radio…

The microquasar GRS 1915+105 is known to exhibit a very variable X-ray emission on different time scales and patterns. We propose a system of two ordinary differential equations, adapted from the Hindmarsh-Rose model, with two dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-17 E. Massaro , F. Capitanio , M. Feroci , T. Mineo , A. Ardito , P. Ricciardi

A new class of X-ray sources was clearly established with the discovery of highly relativistic radio jets from the galactic sources GRS 1915+105 and GRO J1655-40. Both of these objects have given us a broader view of black holes and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Harmon

We present the first results of simultaneous INTEGRAL and RXTE observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105. We focus on the analysis of the unique highly variable observation and show that we might have observed a new class of variability.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Rodriguez , D. C. Hannikainen , O. Vilhu , Y. Fuchs , S. E. Shaw

A model to explain variable gamma-ray sources with high-mass microblazars is described. Inverse Compton interactions between the jet of a microquasar and the UV-photon field of the stellar companion can produce high-energy gamma-rays. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Kaufman Bernado , G. E. Romero , I. F. Mirabel

Microquasars are compact binary systems hosting collimated relativistic jets. They have long been proposed as cosmic-ray accelerators, probed via the gamma-ray emission produced by relativistic particles. However, the observational evidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 G. Martí-Devesa , L. Olivera-Nieto

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 observed the galactic microquasar GRS1915+105 in the K ($2.2 \mu$m) band on October 16 and 17, 1995 UTC using the COB infrared (IR) imager on the Kitt Peak National Observatory 2.1-m telescope with a 0.2-arcsec/pixel plate scale and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Stephen S. Eikenberry , Giovanni G. Fazio

We show that the galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 exhibits quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) whose frequency varies continuously from 1-15 Hz, during spectrally hard dips when the source is in a flaring state. We report here analyses of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Craig B. Markwardt , Jean H. Swank , Ronald E. Taam

We present results from the Suzaku observation of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 performed during the 2005 October multiwavelength campaign. The data include both stable state (class \chi) and limit-cycle oscillation (class \theta). Correct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. Ueda , K. Honda , H. Takahashi , C. Done , H. Shirai , Y. Fukazawa , K. Yamaoka , S. Naik , H. Awaki , K. Ebisawa , J. Rodriguez , S. Chaty

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

The galactic micro-quasar source GRS 1915+105 has been observed with the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment (IXAE) several times over a period extending from 1996 to 2000. The source has been observed in different luminosity states and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Naik , P. C. Agrawal , B. Paul , A. R. Rao , J. S. Yadav , S. Seetha

We propose a model for gamma-ray emitting microblazars based on the Compton interaction of a relativistic electron-positron plasma, ejected in a jet feature, with the UV-photon field provided by a high-mass stellar companion. Taking into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Kaufman Bernado , G. E. Romero , I. F. Mirabel

It is now ten years since the first microquasar GRS 1915+105 was discovered. More than six years of observations with RossiXTE have shown a level of variability never observed in any other X-ray source. Here I try to address some issues,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomaso Belloni

The jets of GRS 1915+105 carry a considerable energy away from the central source into the ISM. The similarity of the jets of this source and jets in radio galaxies or radio-loud quasars suggests that we should detect large-scale,…

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…