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most citedQuasiperiodic oscillations, weak field lensing and shadow cast around black holes in Symmergent gravity

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astro-ph.HE2026

Searching for Isolated Black Hole Candidates within 15 pc of the Solar System in Gaia DR3

Abdurakhmon Nosirov, Cosimo Bambi, Leda Gao +4

Theoretical models predict that the Galaxy hosts - black holes formed from the complete gravitational collapse of heavy stars and that most of these black holes are iso…

astro-ph.HE2025

Assessing systematic uncertainties from spectral re-analysis of Cyg X-1 with different coronal geometries

Abdurakhmon Nosirov, Jiachen Jiang, Cosimo Bambi +1

In this work, we carry out a new spectral reanalysis of NuSTAR and Suzaku observations of the disk reflection spectra in the stellar-mass black hole X-ray binary Cyg~X-1. We compar…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Spin Constraints on 4U 1630-47 via combined Continuum Fitting and Reflection methods: a comparative study using Frequentist and Bayesian statistics

Debtroy Das, Honghui Liu, Zuobin Zhang +5

We present a comprehensive Bayesian spectral analysis of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 during its 2022 outburst, using simultaneous NICER and NuSTAR observations. Using th…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Stellar-Mass Black Holes

Cosimo Bambi

Stellar-mass black holes ( ) are the natural product of the evolution of heavy stars ( ). I…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Possible Coronal Geometry in the Hard and Soft State of Black Hole X-ray Binaries from MONK Simulations

Ningyue Fan, Cosimo Bambi, James F. Steiner +1

Understanding the coronal geometry in different states of black hole X-ray binaries is important for more accurate modeling of the system. However, it is difficult to distinguish d…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Measuring black hole spins with x-ray reflection spectroscopy: A GRMHD outlook

Swarnim Shashank, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Honghui Liu +4

X-ray reflection spectroscopy has evolved as one of the leading methods to measure black hole spins. However, the question is whether its measurements are subjected to systematic b…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Dimming GRS 1915+105 observed with NICER and Insight--HXMT

M. Zhou, V. Grinberg, A. Santangelo +6

The black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 was bright for 26 years since its discovery and is well-known for its disk instabilities, quasi-periodic oscillations, and disk wind signat…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Impact of the returning radiation on X-ray reflection spectroscopy measurements: the case of Galactic black holes

Kexin Huang, Honghui Liu, Cosimo Bambi +2

The effect of the returning radiation has long been ignored in the analysis of the reflection spectra of Galactic black holes and active galactic nuclei and only recently has been…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

NICER Spectral and Timing Analysis of 4U 163047 and its Heartbeat State

Ningyue Fan, James F. Steiner, Cosimo Bambi +3

We present a spectral and timing analysis of NICER observations of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 from 2018 to 2024. We find relativistic reflection features in the hard an…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

About the accuracy of the relxill/relxill_nk models in view of the next generation of X-ray missions

Honghui Liu, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Temurbek Mirzaev +4

X-ray reflection spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study the strong gravity region of black holes. The next generation of astrophysical X-ray missions promises to provide unpreced…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Impact of reflection Comptonization on X-ray reflection spectroscopy: the case of EXO 1846-031

Songcheng Li, Honghui Liu, Cosimo Bambi +2

Within the disk-corona model, it is natural to expect that a fraction of reflection photons from the disk are Compton scattered by the hot corona (reflection Comptonization), even…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Testing General Relativity with NuSTAR data of Galactic Black Holes : II

Ashutosh Tripathi, Swarnim Shashank, Gitika Mall +1

General relativity predicts the spacetime metric around an astrophysical black hole to be described by the Kerr solution, which is a massive rotating black hole without any residua…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

Towards more accurate synthetic reflection spectra: improving the calculations of returning radiation

Temurbek Mirzaev, Shafqat Riaz, Askar B. Abdikamalov +6

We present a new model to calculate reflection spectra of thin accretion disks in Kerr spacetimes. Our model includes the effect of returning radiation, which is the radiation that…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Measuring Black Hole Spins through X-ray Reflection Spectroscopy and the Relativistic Precession Model: the case of XTE J1859+226

Gitika Mall, Honghui Liu, Cosimo Bambi +2

The development of techniques to measure accurately black hole spins is crucial to study the physics and astrophysics of these objects. X-ray reflection spectroscopy is currently t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Evolution of QPOs in GX 339-4 and EXO 1846-031 with Insight-HXMT and NICER

Zuobin Zhang, Honghui Liu, Divya Rawat +6

We conduct a spectral and timing analysis of GX 339-4 and EXO 1846-031 with the aim of studying the evolution of Type-C QPOs with spectral parameters. The high cadence data from In…