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The presence or lack of eclipses in the X-ray lightcurves of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) can be directly linked to the accreting system geometry. In the case where the compact object is stellar mass and radiates isotropically, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Matthew Middleton , Andrew King

Short-term variability of X-ray spectra has been reported for several Active Galactic Nuclei. Significant X-ray flux variations are observed within time scales down to 10^4 -- 10^5 seconds. We discuss short variability time scales in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. Goosmann , B. Czerny , A. -M. Dumont , M. Mouchet , A. Rozanska , V. Karas , M. Dovciak

Polarimetric measurements, especially if extended at high energy, are expected to provide important insights into the mechanisms underlying the acceleration of relativistic particles in jets. In a previous work we have shown that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 F. Tavecchio , M. Landoni , L. Sironi , P. Coppi

Optical and X-ray emission from classical T Tauri stars (CTTSs) has long been known to be highly variable. Our long, uninterrupted optical observation of the NGC2264 region with CoRoT allows the optical variability in CTTS to be studied…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Flaccomio , G. Micela , F. Favata , S. P. H. Alencar

For a long time XMMU J010331.7-730144 was proposed as a high-mass X-ray binary candidate based on its X-ray properties, however, its optical behaviour was unclear - in particular previous observations did not reveal key Balmer emission…

Simultaneous multiwavelength studies of X-ray binaries have been remarkably successful and resulted in improved physical constraints, a new understanding of the dependence of mass accretion rate on X-ray state, as well as insights on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Saeqa D. Vrtilek

Several active galactic nuclei show correlated variations in the ultraviolet/optical range, with time delays increasing at longer wavelengths. Thermal reprocessing of the X-rays illuminating the accretion disk has been proposed as a viable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 E. S. Kammoun , M. Dovciak , I. E. Papadakis , M. D. Caballero-Garcia , V. Karas

One of the most important features in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is the variability of their emission. Variability has been discovered at X-ray, UV, and radio frequencies on time scales from hours to years. Among the AGN family and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 L. Hernández-García , O. González-Martín , I. Márquez , J. Masegosa

The optical/near-infrared (OIR) region of the spectra of low-mass X-ray binaries appears to lie at the intersection of a variety of different emission processes. In this paper we present quasi-simultaneous OIR - X-ray observations of 33 XBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Russell , R. P. Fender , R. I. Hynes , C. Brocksopp , J. Homan , P. G. Jonker , M. M. Buxton

High cadence, high quality observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) clearly show continuum variations with lags, relative to the shortest observed variable UV continuum, that increase with wavelength ("lag spectra"). These have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Hagai Netzer

OJ 287 is one of the most dynamic BL Lacertae objects that has exhibited behaviour representative of the entire blazar class and is also one of the best sources with simultaneous multi-wavelength coordinated data. Motivated by strong X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Pankaj Kushwaha

We present a multiwavelength analysis of the simultaneous optical and X-ray light curves of the microquasar V404 Cyg during the June 2015 outburst. We have performed a comprehensive analysis of all the INTEGRAL/IBIS, JEM-X, and OMC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 J. Alfonso-Garzón , C. Sánchez-Fernández , P. A. Charles , J. M. Mas-Hesse , P. Gandhi , M. Kimura , A. Domingo , J. Rodriguez , J. Chenevez

The black-hole binary LMC X-3 is known to be variable on time scales of days to years. We investigate X-ray and ultraviolet variability in the system as a function of the 1.7 day binary phase using a 6.4 day observation with the Rossi X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Patricia T. Boyd , Alan P. Smale , Joseph F. Dolan

Using archival RXTE data, we show that the ultracompact X-ray binary in NGC 1851 exhibits large amplitude X-ray flux varations of more than a factor of 10 on timescales of days to weeks and undergoes sustained periods of months where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Thomas J. Maccarone , Knox S. Long , Christian Knigge , Andrea Dieball , David R. Zurek

We have measured the wavelength-dependent lags between the X-ray, UV and optical bands in the high accretion rate ($L/L_{\rm Edd}\approx40\%$) Active Galactic Nucleus Mrk 110 during two intensive monitoring campaigns in February and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 F. M. Vincentelli , I. McHardy , V. Hernández Santisteban , E. M. Cackett , J. Gelbord , Keith Horne , J. A. Miller , A. Lobban

We present an update of 3C 273's database hosted by the ISDC, completed with data from radio to gamma-ray observations over the last 10 years. We use this large data set to study the multiwavelength properties of this quasar,especially…

We present optical broadband (B and R) observations of the Seyfert 1 nucleus NGC 3516, obtained at Wise Observatory from 1997 March to 1998 September, contemporaneously with the X-ray 2-10 keV measurements of RXTE. The cross correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dan Maoz , Rick Edelson , Kirpal Nandra

We use Monte Carlo/Fokker-Planck simulations to study the X-ray time lags. Our results show that soft lags will be observed as long as the decay of the flare is dominated by radiative cooling, even when acceleration and cooling timescales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-27 Xuhui Chen , Giovanni Fossati , Edison Liang , Markus Böttcher

Blazars are highly variable active galactic nuclei which emit radiation at all wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays. Polarized radiation from blazars is one key piece of evidence for synchrotron radiation at low energies and it also varies…