12 papers
Studying the Variable Continuum and Emission Line Spectrum of 4U 1700-377 using NuSTAR's Stray Light
Colin J Bourque, McKinley C Brumback, Brian W Grefenstette +4
The high-mass X-ray binary 4U 1700-377 shows strong variation in brightness on timescales of hundreds of seconds due to accretion from a highly clumped stellar wind from the compan…
Disk warping and black hole X-ray binaries I. Tentative unification of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations
Gregoire Marcel, Samuel Turner, Benjamin Ricketts +6
X-ray binaries exhibit complex variability patterns studied in the power-spectrum. These include the broad-band noise (BBN) components and various types of narrow components called…
NuSTAR's Intentional Stray Light Observation of Scorpious X-1
S. Li, R. M. Ludlam, M. Sudha +8
We present the first spectral analysis of Scorpius X-1 (Sco X-1) using intentional stray light (SL) observations taken by NuSTAR. Unlike focused observations that have high telemet…
Investigating MAXI J1752-457 with NuSTAR in the aftermath of a superburst
Sean N. Pike, Hitoshi Negoro, Douglas Buisson +5
We present two NuSTAR observations of the X-ray transient, MAXI J1752-457, following a superburst which was observed by MAXI/GSC in November, 2024. NuSTAR follow-up confirmed that…
Flip-flop states in X-ray binaries and changing-state AGN
Thomas J. Maccarone, Jessie Runnoe, Gregoire Marcel +4
We show that the flip-flop transitions in X-ray binaries (rapid cycling between different spectral states which are sometimes seen near the global state transition) show a series o…
IGR J17091-3624: Newly Formed Periodic Dips and Multiwavelength Activity During the 2025 Outburst
Zikun Lin, Yanan Wang, Shuyuan Wei +15
The black hole low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) candidate IGR J17091-3624 experienced a hard-state-only outburst in 2025. In this paper, we show that IXPE detected a series of intermit…