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most citedCygnus X-1 contains a 21-solar mass black hole -- implications for massive star winds

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astro-ph.HE2023

The first mm detection of a neutron star high-mass X-ray binary

J. van den Eijnden, L. Sidoli, M. Diaz Trigo +9

Neutron stars accreting from OB supergiants are often divided between persistently and transiently accreting systems, called Supergiant X-ray Binaries (SgXBs) and Supergiant Fast X…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Accretion Disc Evolution in GRO J1655-40 and LMC X-3 with Relativistic and Non-Relativistic Disc Models

Anastasiya Yilmaz, Jiri Svoboda, Victoria Grinberg +3

Black hole X-ray binaries are ideal environments to study the accretion phenomena in strong gravitational potentials. These systems undergo dramatic accretion state transitions and…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Stellar wind variability in Cygnus X-1 from high-resolution excess variance spectroscopy with Chandra

Lucia K. Härer, Michael L. Parker, Ileyk El Mellah +5

Stellar winds of massive stars are known to be driven by line absorption of UV photons, a mechanism which is prone to instabilities, causing the wind to be clumpy. The clumpy struc…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Observing the onset of the accretion wake in Vela X-1

C. M. Diez, V. Grinberg, F. Fürst +7

High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) offer a unique opportunity for the investigation of accretion onto compact objects and of wind structure in massive stars. A key source for such st…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Clumpy wind studies and the non-detection of cyclotron line in OAO 1657-415

Pragati Pradhan, Carlo Ferrigno, Biswajit Paul +11

Winds of massive stars are suspected to be inhomogeneous (or clumpy), which biases the measures of their mass loss rates. In High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs), the compact object ca…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 13 cited

NICER/NuSTAR Characterization of 4U 1957+11: A Near Maximally Spinning Black Hole Potentially in the Mass Gap

Erin Barillier, Victoria Grinberg, David Horn +5

4U 1957+11 is a black hole candidate system that has been in a soft X-ray spectral state since its discovery. We present analyses of recent joint NICER and NuSTAR spectra, which ar…