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We report on the analysis of 100 ks INTEGRAL observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105. We focus on INTEGRAL Revolution number 48 when the source was found to exhibit a new type of variability as preliminarily reported in…

Black hole binaries are variable in timescales of rang from months to milli-seconds. The origin of this variability is still not clear, it could be due to the variation of external parameters, like mass accretion rate, instabilities in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

GRS 1915$+$105 is a stellar-mass black hole that is well known for exhibiting at least 12 distinct classes of X-ray variability and correlated multi-wavelength behavior. Despite such extraordinary variability, GRS 1915$+$105 remained one of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Mayura Balakrishnan , J. M. Miller , M. T. Reynolds , E. Kammoun , A. Zoghbi , B. E. Tetarenko

We present data from the first of six monitoring Open Time observations of GRS 1915+105 undertaken with the orbiting INTEGRAL satellite. The source was clearly detected with all three X-ray and gamma-ray instruments on board. GRS 1915+105…

Measurement of the energy emitted from accreting astrophysical systems provides an observational constraint on the plasma processes that may be operating within the disk. Here we examine the continual time variation over the past six years…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Greenhough , S. C. Chapman , S. Chaty , R. O. Dendy , G. Rowlands

We present evidence that ~ 30 minute episodes of jet formation in the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 may sometimes entirely be a superposition of smaller, faster phenomena. We base this conclusion on simultaneous X-ray and infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David M. Rothstein , Stephen S. Eikenberry , Keith Matthews

We report on extensive X-ray observations of the galactic superluminal motion source GRS 1915+105 with the RXTE satellite over the last year. More than 130 RXTE pointings have been performed. GRS 1915+105 displays drastic X-ray intensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Greiner , E. Morgan , R. Remillard

GRS 1915+105 has exhibited at least three modes of long-wavelength (infrared to radio) flares. Class A flares are the bright ($\sim 1$ Jy) radio events whose apparent superluminal motion in many ways defines the microquasars. Class B flares…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Eikenberry

Monitoring with the Ryle Telescope at 15 GHz of the Galactic X-ray transient source GRS 1915+105 has revealed a remarkable range of rapid and extended flares which appear to be related to the X-ray emission as recorded by the RXTE all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Pooley , R. P. Fender

We present results of our analysis of a set of RXTE/PCA observations of X-ray flares/bursts with burst cycle ranging from 30 to 1300 s from the Galactic X-ray transient source GRS 1915+105 during last four years. These flares/bursts can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Yadav , A. R. Rao

We report the discovery of fast (~ 100 sec) 2.2 micron flares from the microquasar GRS 1915+105, which are superimposed on longer (~ 30 min), brighter flares corresponding to episodes of jet formation. The number and strength of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David M. Rothstein , Stephen S. Eikenberry

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…

GRS 1915+105, one of the two known galactic microquasars, shows an extremely complex variability in the X-ray band, comparable to no other X-ray source in the sky. Making use of RXTE/PCA data, we have analyzed the X-ray spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Belloni , M. Mendez , A. R. King , M. van der Klis , J. van Paradijs

We report on long-term K band photometry of the galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 since March 1999. We see variations of more than 1 mag, which are seemingly correlated with variations in X-ray intensity and spectral slope.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Greiner , F. J. Vrba , A. A. Henden , H. H. Guetter , C. B. Luginbuhl

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

The results of X-ray observations of Galactic superluminal jet source GRS 1915+105 during its low luminosity state and state transitions in October, 1996 - April, 1997 with PCA and HEXTE instruments aboard Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Trudolyubov , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov

We perform a comparative spectro-temporal analysis on the variability classes of GRS 1915+105 and IGR J17091-3624 to draw inferences regarding the underlying accretion flow mechanism. The $\nu$, as well as C2 class Rossi X-Ray Timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Anuvab Banerjee , Ayan Bhattacharjee , Dipak Debnath , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

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 have analyzed in detail a set of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of the galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 corresponding to times when quasi-periodic oscillations in the infrared have been reported. From time-resolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Belloni , S. Migliari , R. P. Fender

We present a scenario for the variability of the microquasar GRS 1915+105. This starts from previous works, leading to the tentative identification of the Accretion-Ejection Instability as the source of the low-frequency Quasi-Periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michel Tagger , Peggy Varniere , Jerome Rodriguez , Rene Pellat