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From 1994 to 1997 we monitored the optical spectrum of RXJ0019.8+2156. This supersoft X-ray source is one of only two accreting white dwarfs in the Galaxy thought to be burning hydrogen on their surface as a consequence of a high rate of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. M. Becker , R. A. Remillard , S. A. Rappaport , J. E. McClintock

We present five epochs of simultaneous radio (VLA) and X-ray (Chandra) observations of SS 433, to study the relation between the radio and X-ray emission in the arcsecond-scale jets of the source. We detected X-ray emission from the…

A huge optical luminosity of the supercritical accretion disc and powerful stellar wind in the high-mass X-ray binary SS433 make it difficult to reliably estimate the mass ratio of the binary components from spectroscopic observations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-20 Anatol Cherepashchuk , Kosnatntin Postnov , Alexandre Belinski

X-ray eclipse mapping is a promising modelling technique, capable of constraining the mass and/or radius of neutron stars (NSs) or black holes (BHs) in eclipsing binaries and probing any structure surrounding the companion star. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Amy H. Knight , Adam Ingram , Matthew Middleton

The microquasar SS 433 is an interacting massive binary consisting of an evolved mass donor and a compact companion that ejects relativistic jets. The mass donor was previously identified through spectroscopic observations of absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Todd C. Hillwig , Douglas R. Gies

Two relativistic X-ray jets have been detected with the Chandra X-ray observatory in the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1550-564. We report a full analysis of the evolution of the two jets with a gamma-ray burst external shock model. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shuang Nan Zhang , JingFang Hao

The observed X-ray luminosity of SS 433 is ~10^36 erg/s, it is known that all the radiation is formed in the famous SS 433 jets. The bolometric luminosity of SS 433 is ~10^40 erg/s, and originally the luminosity must be realized in X-rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Fabrika , A. Medvedev

High-resolution X-ray spectra of SS 433 obtained after a binary egress with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) were studied. Many Doppler-shifted X-ray emission lines from highly ionized elements were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masaaki Namiki , Nobuyuki Kawai , Taro Kotani , Kazuo Makishima

Flat radio spectra of compact jets launched by both supermassive and stellar-mass black holes are explained by an interplay of self-absorbed synchrotron emission up to some distance along the jet and optically thin synchrotron at larger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Callan M. Wood , Francesco Carotenuto

The radio supernova remnant W50 hosts at its center the peculiar galactic X-ray binary SS 433. It shows a central spherical structure with two `ears' which are supposed to be formed by the interaction of the precessing jets of SS 433 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Brinkmann , G. W. Pratt , S. Rohr , N. Kawai , V. Burwitz

Two relativistic X-ray jets have been detected with the Chandra X-ray observatory from the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1550-564. We report a full analysis of the evolution of the two jets with a gamma-ray burst external shock model. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 Shuang-Nan Zhang , JingFang Hao

We present Chandra X-ray (0.2-8 keV) and Very Large Array radio (15 and 5 GHz) images of the $\gamma$-ray bright, superluminal quasar 0827+243. The X-ray jet bends sharply--by ~90 deg., presumably amplified by projection effects--5'' from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Svetlana Jorstad , Alan Marscher

SS433 is an extraordinary X-ray binary which is ejecting bipolar jets with $26\%$ of the speed of light. Associated with the supernova-like shell W50, SS433 is also probably one of the youngest X-ray binaries with an age of $\lesssim 10^5$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Qin Han , Xiang-Dong Li

Relativistic discrete ejecta launched by black hole X-ray binaries (BH XRBs) can be observed to propagate up to parsec-scales from the central object. Observing the final deceleration phase of these jets is crucial to estimate their…

Context. Modern high resolution observations allow to view closer into the objects powering relativistic jets. This is especially the case for SS433, an X-ray binary from which a precessing jet is observed down to the sub-parsec scale.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Remi Monceau-Baroux , Rony Keppens , Zakaria Meliani , Oliver Porth

The relative phasing of the X-ray eclipse ephemeris and optical radial velocity (RV) curve for the X-ray binary IC10 X-1 suggests the He[$\lambda$4686] emission-line originates in a shadowed sector of the stellar wind that avoids ionization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Silas G. T. Laycock , Thomas J. Maccarone , Dimitris M. Christodoulou

{The Galactic microquasar SS 433 is very luminous and ejects opposite jets at approximately one quarter the speed of light. It is regarded as a super-Eddington accretor but until recently there were no observations of accretion.} % aims…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M G Bowler

Blazar PG 1553+113 is thought to be a host of supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) system. A 2.2-year quasi-periodicity in the $\gamma$-ray light curve was detected, possibly result of jet precession. Motivated by the previous studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-03 Shifeng Huang , Hongxing Yin , Shaoming Hu , Xu Chen , Yunguo Jiang , Sofya Alexeeva , Yifan Wang

Large-scale, decelerating, relativistic X-ray jets due to material ejected from the black-hole candidate X-ray transient and microquasar XTE J1550-564 has been recently discovered with Chandra by Corbel et al. (2002). We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 X. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , T. Lu

Galactic binary systems that contain a black hole candidate emit hard X-rays in their low luminosity mode. We show that this emission can be understood as due to the Compton scattering of photons from the companion star and/or the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Georganopoulos , F. A. Aharonian , J. G. Kirk