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astro-ph.HE2026

Spectral-Timing Evolution of the Black Hole X-ray Binary LMC X-3: An XPoSat View

Sayantan Bhattacharya, Aman Kaushik, Sudip Bhattacharyya

LMC X-3 is a persistent black hole high-mass X-ray binary and serves as an important laboratory for studying accretion disk evolution across different spectral states. We present a…

astro-ph.HE2026

Transmutation Timescales for Dark Matter Induced Collapse of Compact Stars into Black Holes

H. A. Adarsha, Chandrachur Chakraborty, Sudip Bhattacharyya

Ultra-heavy asymmetric dark matter (DM) particles captured by compact stars can thermalize, self-gravitate, and collapse to form an endoparasitic black hole (EBH), whose subsequent…

astro-ph.HE2026

Tilted thin accretion disks in the full Kerr spacetime and their implications

K. S. Sruthy, Chandrachur Chakraborty, Sudip Bhattacharyya

We derive a steady-state warped-disk equation in the full Kerr spacetime to study the tilt dynamics of a thin, viscous accretion disk around a spinning collapsed object. The formul…

astro-ph.HE2026

The SPOTLIGHT Pulsar Search Pipeline: A GPU-Accelerated FFT Approach

Jyotirmoy Das, Jayanta Roy, Nishant Pradeep Deo +20

We present the pulsar search component of SPOTLIGHT (Survey for sPoradic radiO bursTs via a commensaL multI-beam Gpu-powered Hpc at the gmrT), a GPU-accelerated commensal backend o…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraining Orbital Eccentricity of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidate PKS 2131-0211

Avinash Kumar Paladi, A. Gopakumar, Sushmita Agarwal +1

A detailed analysis of the decades-long radio light curve of blazar PKS 2131-021 showed epochs of sinusoidal variations in the radio flux density time-series as detailed in O'Neill…

astro-ph.HE2026

A NICER and AstroSat view of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 1A 1246-588

Vaidehi Poojyam, Vikas Mistry, Yash Bhargava +2

Neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems depict a variety of X-ray spectral and timing features, which can be useful to probe the accretion-ejection mechanism in the…

astro-ph.HE2026

Pulsar scintillation studies with LOFAR III. Annual variations in PSR~J08147429

Yanqing Cai, Ziwei Wu, Weiwei Zhu +27

The interstellar scintillation observed in radio pulsars arises from interference between electromagnetic waves scattered by electron density fluctuations in the turbulent interste…

astro-ph.HE2026

The GMRT High-Resolution Southern Sky Survey for pulsars and transients -- VIII: Orbital Variability and the Evolution of a 1-Day He-WD Millisecond Pulsar J2101-4802

Ankita Ghosh, Bhaswati Bhattacharyya, David L. Kaplan +8

We present timing and orbital phase-resolved polarimetry of the millisecond pulsar (MSP) J21014802, having a spin period of 9.48~ms and dispersion measure (DM) $25.05\ \mathrm{p…

astro-ph.HE2026

Probing heartbeat oscillations from the black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 using spectral-timing analysis

Karan Akbari, Chintan Patel, Sayantan Bhattacharya +2

GRS 1915+105 is a black hole X-ray binary whose -class ("heartbeat") oscillations (50--100 s) are attributed to radiation-pressure instabilities in the inner accretion dis…

astro-ph.HE2026

SN 2017hcc and SN 2023usc a comparative spectroscopic study of type IIn supernovae

Sethulakshmi Vazhayil, Firoza K. Sutaria, Riddhiman Sharma +1

We report on a spectroscopic study of the bright, nearby type-IIn supernova SN 2017hcc, and SN 2023usc using data obtained from the Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT). SN 2017hcc is…

astro-ph.HE2026

Monitoring the upper atmospheric temperature and interplanetary magnetic field with the GRAPES-3 muon telescope

S. Paul, K. P. Arunbabu, M. Chakraborty +17

We study the influence of variations in the upper atmospheric temperature and interplanetary magnetic field on the cosmic ray induced atmospheric muon flux measured by the GRAPES-3…

astro-ph.HE2026

Merger Driven or Internal Evolution? A New Morphological Study of Tidal Disruption Event Host Galaxies

Janet N. Y. Chang, Connor Bottrell, Lixin Dai +7

The host galaxies of tidal disruption events (TDEs) show enhanced central stellar concentration and are preferentially found in poststarburst and green valley populations. This con…

astro-ph.HE2026

Progenitor of the recoiling super-massive black hole RBH-1 identified using HST/JWST imaging

Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar

Using a combination of \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} and \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} imaging, a runaway supermassive black hole (RBH-1) was recently identified with an in…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection of giant pulses from the transitional millisecond pulsar J12274853

Saptarshi Sarkar, Jayanta Roy, Bhaswati Bhattacharyya +5

We report the discovery of giant pulse (GP) emission from the transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) PSR J12274853, using 174 hours of single-pulse data from the upgraded Giant…

astro-ph.HE2025

Broadband Spectral Analysis of 1ES2344+514: A Multi-epoch study

Kishor Chaudhury, Abhradeep Roy, Varsha R. Chitnis +2

We present the results of the multi-epoch broadband spectral study of 1ES 2344+514 and study the evolution of physical parameters. We used nearly simultaneous data obtained from 20…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Measuring accretion disc properties in the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 using XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, NICER and Chandra

Vishal Jadoliya, Mayukh Pahari, Sudip Bhattacharyya +1

Whether the accretion disc in the X-ray high-mode of transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSP) reaches near the neutron star surface by penetrating the magnetosphere is a crucial que…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

A continuous transition from Type-C Quasi Periodic Oscillations to the Heartbeat state in the Black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47

Chintan Patel, Sayantan Bhattacharya, Karan Akbari +2

We present a timing analysis of the black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) 4U 1630-47 using AstroSat observations from 10-19 March 2023, for the first time capturing a rare and rapid tran…

astro-ph.HE2025

Infrared Synchrotron Emission in the Soft State of GX 339-4 and the Mid-Infrared/X-ray Luminosity Plane of Black Hole X-ray Binaries

P. Gandhi, D. M. Russell, M. C. Baglio +33

Progress in understanding the growth of accreting black holes remains hampered by a lack of sensitive coordinated multiwavelength observations. In particular, the mid-infrared (MIR…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Investigating four new candidate redback pulsars discovered in the image plane

Flora Petrou, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Sam McSweeney +12

This paper reports the discovery and follow-up of four candidate redback spider pulsars: GPM J1723-33, GPM J1734-28, GPM J1752-30 and GPM J1815-14, discovered with the Murchison Wi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Constraining initial orbital eccentricity of inspiral-dominated gravitational-wave events with an analytic approximant

Hemantakumar Phurailatpam, Gopakumar Achamveedu, Maria Haney +2

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA consortium has sporadically detected inspiral-dominated gravitational-wave events such as GW170817 and GW190425. These events offer an opportunity to constrain…

astro-ph.HE2025

Gravitational Wave Signatures of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions: LISA Detection Prospects for RX J1301.9+2747

Leif Lui, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela, Rudrani Kar Chowdhury +1

Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense, recurring outbursts of X-ray radiation originating from the nuclei of distant galaxies. One of the promising models of QPE explains thes…

astro-ph.HE2025

A New Framework to Detect Multi-Messenger Signals from Bright Sporadic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Hardik Jitendra Kuralkar, Mohit Raj Sah, Suvodip Mukherjee

The temporal dependence of the astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background (SGWB) in the hecto-hertz band brings a unique avenue to identify multi-messenger signals…

astro-ph.HE2025

FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-Off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 parsec Precision

FRB Collaboration, Thomas C. Abbott, Daniel Amouyal +83

Precise localizations of a small number of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have enabled multiwavelength follow-up observations rev…

astro-ph.HE2025

An unusual type-I X-ray burst from the neutron star X-ray binary IGR J17591-2342: a double-photospheric-radius-expansion burst?

Sudip Bhattacharyya, Akshay Singh, Andrea Sanna

Type-I X-ray bursts observed from neutron stars originate from intermittent unstable thermonuclear burning of accreted matter on these stars. Such bursts, particularly those reachi…