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The low luminosity end of Galactic HMXBs with eROSITA: Establishing a luminosity floor for accreting BeXRBs
Aafia Zainab, Philipp Thalhammer, Nico Zalot +18
We present a first look at the Galactic population of heretofore known HMXBs as observed by SRG/eROSITA during its first four surveys. eROSITA's sensitivity of $\sim10^{-13}\,\math…
A unified modeling of X-ray and gamma-ray spectro-polarimetric data: the case of Cygnus X-1
Tristan Bouchet, Thomas Siegert, Victoria Grinberg +4
Recent X-ray and soft gamma-ray spectro-polarimetric observations of black hole X-ray binaries, such as Cygnus X-1, reveal discrepancies that challenge current models of accretion…
Long term variability of Cygnus X-1. IX. A spectral-timing comparison of Cygnus X-1 and MAXI J1820+070 in the hard state
Arkadip Basak, Phil Uttley, Niek Bollemeijer +11
Cygnus X-1 is a persistent, high-mass black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) which in the hard state shows many similar properties to transient BHXRBs, along with intriguing differences,…
Probing the emission geometry of the X-ray pulsar 2S 1417624 during a weak outburst with NICER, IXPE, and NuSTAR
Menglei Zhou, Pengju Wang, Honghui Liu +12
We report results from a multi-mission observational campaign of the transient X-ray pulsar 2S~1417624 during its 2025 outburst, using data from NICER, IXPE, and NuSTAR. Phase-a…
INTEGRAL/IBIS polarization detection in the hard and soft intermediate states of Swift J1727.8-1613
Tristan Bouchet, Jérôme Rodriguez, Floriane Cangemi +5
Soft gamma-ray emission (100 keV -- 10 MeV) has previously been detected in the hard state of several microquasars. In some sources, this emission was found to be highly polarized…
An IXPE-Led X-ray Spectro-Polarimetric Campaign on the Soft State of Cygnus X-1: X-ray Polarimetric Evidence for Strong Gravitational Lensing
James F. Steiner, Edward Nathan, Kun Hu +134
We present the first X-ray spectropolarimetric results for Cygnus X-1 in its soft state from a campaign of five IXPE observations conducted during 2023 May-June. Companion multiwav…
Long term variability of Cygnus X-1. VIII. A spectral-timing look at low energies with NICER
Ole König, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Thomas Dauser +19
The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) monitoring campaign of Cyg X-1 allows us to study its spectral-timing behavior at energies keV across all states. The…
Astronomy's climate emissions: Global travel to scientific meetings in 2019
Andrea Gokus, Knud Jahnke, Paul M Woods +11
Travel to academic conferences -- where international flights are the norm -- is responsible for a sizeable fraction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with academic…
The prototype X-ray binary GX 339-4: using TeV gamma-rays to assess LMXBs as Galactic cosmic ray accelerators
D. Kantzas, S. Markoff, M. Lucchini +4
Since the discovery of cosmic rays (CRs) over a century ago, their origin remains an open question. Galactic CRs with energy up to the knee ( eV) are considered to origina…
Single-dish and VLBI observations of Cygnus X-3 during the 2016 giant flare episode
E. Egron, A. Pellizzoni, M. Giroletti +34
In September 2016, the microquasar Cygnus X-3 underwent a giant radio flare, which was monitored for 6 days with the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station and the Sardinia Radio Tele…
The Soft State of Cygnus X-1 Observed with NuSTAR: A Variable Corona and a Stable Inner Disk
D. J. Walton, J. A. Tomsick, K. K. Madsen +17
We present a multi-epoch hard X-ray analysis of Cygnus X-1 in its soft state based on four observations with NuSTAR. Despite the basic similarity of the observed spectra, there is…
Correlated optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray flaring activity seen with INTEGRAL during the 2015 outburst of V404 Cygni
J. Rodriguez, M. Cadolle Bel, J. Alfonso-Garzón +20
After 25 years of quiescence, the microquasar V404 Cyg entered a new period of activity in June 2015. This X-ray source is known to undergo extremely bright and variable outbursts…
X-ray and Near Infrared observations of the obscured accreting pulsar IGR J18179-1621
M. A. Nowak, A. Paizis, J. Rodriguez +6
IGR J18179-1621 is an obscured accreting X-ray pulsar discovered by INTEGRAL on 2012 February 29. We report on our 20 ksec Chandra-High Energy Transmission Gratings Spectrometer ob…
Polarized Gamma-ray Emission from the Galactic Black Hole Cygnus X-1
P. Laurent, J. Rodriguez, J. Wilms +3
Because of their inherently high flux allowing the detection of clear signals, black hole X-ray binaries are interesting candidates for polarization studies, even if no polarizatio…