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A Toy Model for the Time-Frequency Structure of Fast Radio Bursts: Implications for the CHIME Burst Dichotomy
Brian D. Metzger, Navin Sridhar, Ben Margalit +2
We introduce a toy model for the time-frequency structure of fast radio bursts (FRB), in which the observed emission is produced as a narrowly-peaked intrinsic spectral energy dist…
Comptonization by Reconnection Plasmoids in Black Hole Coronae I: Magnetically Dominated Pair Plasma
Navin Sridhar, Lorenzo Sironi, Andrei M. Beloborodov
We perform two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of reconnection in magnetically dominated electron-positron plasmas subject to strong Compton cooling. We vary the magnetiza…
Periodic Fast Radio Bursts from Luminous X-ray Binaries
Navin Sridhar, Brian D. Metzger, Paz Beniamini +4
The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs…
Reflection Modeling of the Black Hole Binary 4U~163047: the Disk Density and Returning Radiation
Riley Connors, Javier García, John Tomsick +11
We present the analysis of X-ray observations of the black hole binary 4U~163047 using relativistic reflection spectroscopy. We use archival data from the RXTE, Swift, and NuSTA…