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We report on X-ray and soft gamma-ray observations of the black-hole candidate GX 339-4 during its 2007 outburst, performed with the RXTE and INTEGRAL satellites. The hardness-intensity diagram of all RXTE/PCA data combined shows a q-shaped…

We report on X-ray observations of the black-hole candidate GX 339-4 during its 2006/2007 outburst. The hardness-intensity diagram of all RXTE/PCA data combined shows a q-shaped track similar to that observed in previous outbursts. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Motta , T. Belloni , J. Homan

GX~339$-$4 is a black hole X-ray binary that is a key focus of accretion studies since it goes into outburst roughly every two-to-three years. Tracking of its radio, IR and X-ray flux during multiple outbursts reveals tight broadband…

The Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary GX339-4 spends most of its time in the low/hard state, making it an ideal candidate for modeling the assumedly low accretion phase. The radio emission correlates very tightly with the X-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Markoff , M. Nowak , S. Corbel , R. Fender , H. Falcke

Using the simultaneous Infra-Red (IR) and X-ray light curves obtained by Kalamkar et al. (2016), we perform a Fourier analysis of the IR/X-ray timing correlations of the black hole X-ray binary (BHB) GX 339-4. The resulting IR vs X-ray…

(Abridged) We report on RXTE and optical/near-infrared (nIR) observations of the black hole transient GX 339-4, made over a time span of 8 months in 2002 and covering the initial rise and transition from a hard to a soft spectral state. Two…

Four persistent (Cygnus X-1, GX 339-4, GRS 1758-258 and 1E 1740.7-2942) and three transient (GS 2023+38, GRO J0422+32 and GS 1354-64) black hole X-ray binary systems have been extensively observed at radio wavelengths during extended…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. P. Fender

The microquasar GX 339-4 experienced a new outburst in 2010: it was observed simultaneously at various wavelengths from radio up to soft gamma-rays. We focused on observations that are quasi-simultaneous with those made with the INTEGRAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Cadolle Bel , J. Rodriguez , P. D'Avanzo , D. M. Russell , J. Tomsick , S. Corbel , F. Lewis , F. Rahoui , M. Buxton , P. Goldoni , E. Kuulkers

We present results from the first multi-epoch X-ray/IR fast-photometry campaign on the black-hole transient GX 339--4, during its 2015 outburst decay. We studied the evolution of the power spectral densities finding strong differences…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 F. M. Vincentelli , P. Casella , P. Petrucci , T. Maccarone , D. Russell , P. Uttley , B. De Marco , R. Fender , P. Gandhi , J. Malzac , K. O'Brien , J. Tomsick

We present the optical/infra-red lightcurve (O/IR) of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 collected at the SMARTS 1.3m telescope from 2002 to 2010. During this time the source has undergone numerous state transitions including hard-to-soft…

Recent studies of different X-ray binaries (XRBs) have shown a clear correlation between the radio and X-ray emission. We present evidence of a close relationship found between the radio and X-ray emission at different epochs for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 A. Rushton , R. Spencer , R. Fender , G. Pooley

Understanding the dynamics behind black hole state transitions and the changes they reflect in outbursts has become long-standing problem. The X-ray reflection spectrum describes the interaction between the hard X-ray source (the power-law…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 D. S. Plant , R. P. Fender , G. Ponti , T. Muñoz-Darias , M. Coriat

Black-hole transients exhibit a correlation between the time lag of hard photons with respect to softer ones and the photon index of the hard X-ray power law. The correlation is not very tight and therefore it is necessary to examine it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 N. Kylafis , P. Reig

We present a detailed classification of the X-ray states of Cyg X-3 based on the spectral shape and a new classification of the radio states based on the long-term correlated behaviour of the radio and soft X-ray light curves. We find a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Szostek , A. A. Zdziarski , M. L. McCollough

We present the results of simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of the peculiar Z-type neutron star X-ray binary Cir X-1, observed with the Rossi X-ray timing explorer satellite and the Australia Telescope Compact Array in 2000 October…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Paolo Soleri , Valeriu Tudose , Rob Fender , Michiel van der Klis , Peter G. Jonker

The hard state of X-ray binaries (XRBs) is characterized by a power law spectrum in the X-ray band, and a flat/inverted radio/IR spectrum associated with occasionally imaged compact jets. It has generally been thought that the hard X-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Sera Markoff Michael A. Nowak Joern Wilms

We report on a comprehensive and consistent investigation into the X-ray emission from GX 339-4. All public observations in the 11 year RXTE archive were analysed. Three different types of model - single powerlaw, broken powerlaw and a disc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. J. H. Dunn , R. P. Fender , E. G. Koerding , C. Cabanac , T. Belloni

Compact radio jets are ubiquitous in stellar-mass black-hole binaries in their hard spectral state. Empirical relations between the radio and narrow-band X-ray fluxes have been used to understand the connection between their accretion discs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Nazma Islam , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

We present the results from simultaneous radio (Very Large Array) and X-ray (Rossi-X-ray Timing Explorer) observations of the Z-type neutron star X-ray binary GX~17+2. The aim is to assess the coupling between X-ray and radio properties…

Some recent observational results impose significant constraints on all the models that have been proposed to explain the Galactic black-hole X-ray sources in the hard state. In particular, it has been found that during the hard state of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. D. Kylafis , I. E. Papadakis , P. Reig , D. Giannios , G. G. Pooley