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On the Possibility of a Strong First-Order Phase Transition in Neutron Stars
Zheng Cao, Lie-Wen Chen
Whether cold dense QCD matter undergoes a strong first-order phase transition remains an open question. In nature, neutron stars provide the most direct probe of cold dense QCD mat…
Slim disk modeling reveals an accreting intermediate-mass black hole in the luminous fast blue optical transient AT2018cow
Z. Cao, P. G. Jonker, S. Wen +1
The origin of the most luminous subclass of the fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) is still unknown. We present an X-ray spectral analysis of AT2018cow-the LFBOT archetype-using…
Evidence for an expanding corona based on spectral-timing modelling of multiple black hole X-ray binaries
Zheng Cao, Matteo Lucchini, Sera Markoff +2
Galactic black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) provide excellent laboratories to study accretion, as their relatively quick evolution allows us to monitor large changes in the in-flowi…
RELXILL_NK: a relativistic reflection model for testing Einstein's gravity
Cosimo Bambi, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Dimitry Ayzenberg +6
Einstein's theory of general relativity was proposed over 100 years ago and has successfully passed a large number of observational tests in the weak field regime. However, the str…