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Millihertz Oscillations Near the Innermost Orbit of a Supermassive Black Hole
Megan Masterson, Erin Kara, Christos Panagiotou +22
Recent discoveries from time-domain surveys are defying our expectations for how matter accretes onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The increased rate of short-timescale, repet…
Proof of principle X-ray reflection mass measurement of the black hole in H1743-322
Edward Nathan, Adam Ingram, James F. Steiner +9
The black hole X-ray binary H1743-322 lies in a region of the Galaxy with high extinction, and therefore it has not been possible to make a dynamical mass measurement. In this pape…
Correlated mid-infrared and X-ray outbursts in black hole X-ray binaries: A new route to discovery in infrared surveys
Chris John, Kishalay De, Matteo Lucchini +5
The mid-infrared (MIR; m) bands offer a unique window into understanding accretion and its interplay with jet formation in Galactic black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRB…
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…
Highly-coherent quasi-periodic oscillations in the 'heartbeat' black hole X-ray binary IGR J17091-3624
Jingyi Wang, Erin Kara, Jeroen Homan +13
IGR J17091-3624 is a black hole X-ray binary (BHXB), often referred to as the 'twin' of GRS 1915+105 because it is the only other known BHXB that can show exotic 'heartbeat'-like v…
The 2022 Outburst of IGR J17091-3624: Connecting the exotic GRS 1915+105 to standard black hole X-ray binaries
Jingyi Wang, Erin Kara, Javier A. García +13
While the standard X-ray variability of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) is stochastic and noisy, there are two known BHXBs that exhibit exotic `heartbeat'-like variability in the…
Evidence for a dynamic corona in the short-term time lags of black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070
Niek Bollemeijer, Phil Uttley, Arkadip Basak +19
In X-ray observations of hard state black hole X-ray binaries, rapid variations in accretion disc and coronal power-law emission are correlated and show Fourier-frequency-dependent…
Chasing the break: Tracing the full evolution of a black hole X-ray binary jet with multi-wavelength spectral modeling
Constanza Echiburú-Trujillo, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, Daryl Haggard +35
Black hole X-ray binaries (BH XRBs) are ideal targets to study the connection between accretion inflow and jet outflow. Here we present quasi-simultaneous, multi-wavelength observa…
Variability as a predictor for the hard-to-soft state transition in GX 339-4
Matteo Lucchini, Marina Ten Have, Jingyi Wang +17
During the outbursts of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs), their accretion flows transition through several states. The source luminosity rises in the hard state, dominated by non…
X-ray Reverberation Mapping of Ark 564 using Gaussian Process Regression
Collin D. Lewin, Erin Kara, Daniel R. Wilkins +15
Ark 564 is an extreme high-Eddington Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy, known for being one of the brightest, most rapidly variable soft X-ray AGN, and for having one of the lowest temp…
On measuring the Hubble constant with X-ray reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei
Adam Ingram, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Michiel van der Klis +8
We show that X-ray reverberation mapping can be used to measure the distance to type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This is because X-ray photons originally emitted from the `cor…
Modelling correlated variability in accreting black holes: the effect of high density and variable ionisation on reverberation lags
Guglielmo Mastroserio, Adam Ingram, Jingyi Wang +9
We present a new release of the RELTRANS model to fit the complex cross-spectrum of accreting black holes as a function of energy. The model accounts for continuum lags and reverbe…
MAXI J1820+070 with NuSTAR II. Flaring during the hard to soft state transition with a long soft lag
D. J. K. Buisson, A. C. Fabian, P. Gandhi +6
We continue the analysis of NuSTAR data from the recent discovery outburst of MAXI J1820+070 (optical counterpart ASASSN-18ey), focussing on an observation including unusual flarin…
High Density Reflection Spectroscopy I. A case study of GX~339-4
Jiachen Jiang, Andrew C. Fabian, Jingyi Wang +5
We present a broad band spectral analysis of the black hole binary GX~339-4 with NuSTAR and Swift using high density reflection model. The observations were taken when the source w…