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most citedThe Broadband X-ray Spectral Properties during the Rising Phases of the Outburst of the New Black Hole X-ray Binary Candidate Swift J1727.8-1613

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astro-ph.HE2026

Stable X-ray reverberation lags in the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613

Wei Yu, Sinan Allak, Zi-Xu Yang +3

Aims. We investigate the evolution of X-ray reverberation lags in the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 during its 2023 outburst, with the aim of probing the inner accreti…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectral and timing variability of the transient ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4631 X-4

Sinan Allak, Wei Yu, Lorenzo Ducci +4

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are among the best laboratories for studying super-Eddington accretion onto compact objects. We present a detailed spectral and timing analysis o…

astro-ph.HE2026

A candidate cyclotron line at 1.89 keV in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4861 X-2

Sinan Allak, Lorenzo Ducci, Valery F. Suleimanov +6

In this Letter, we report the detection of an absorption-like feature at ~1.89 keV in Chandra/ACIS spectra of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4861 X-2, based on the deepest obse…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

Revisiting the extremely long-period cataclysmic variables V479 Andromedae and V1082 Sagitarii

Gagik Tovmassian, Diogo Belloni, Anna F. Pala +56

The overwhelming majority of CVs have orbital periods shorter than 10 hr. However, a few have much longer periods, and their formation and existence pose challenges for the CV evol…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Reverberation lags viewed in hard X-rays from an accreting stellar-mass black hole

Bei You, Wei Yu, Adam Ingram +5

Accreting black holes are thought to swallow matter in the form of a disk and a hot cloud of plasma that glows brightly in X-rays, known as the corona. The X-ray emitting region is…

astro-ph.HE2025

Spectral analysis of the X-ray flares in the 2023 outburst of the new black binary transient Swift J1727.8--1613 observed with Insight-HXMT

Jia-Ying Cao, Jin-Yuan Liao, Shuang-Nan Zhang +12

The new black hole transient Swift J1727.8--1613 exhibited a series of X-ray flares during its 2023 outburst extensively observed with Insight-HXMT. We analyze the spectra of the f…

astro-ph.HE2024

A timing view of the additional high-energy spectral component discovered in the black hole candidate Swift J1727.8-1613

Zi-Xu Yang, Liang Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang +15

We present an energy-dependent analysis for the type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 using Insight-HXMT observations…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 8 cited

The Broadband X-ray Spectral Properties during the Rising Phases of the Outburst of the New Black Hole X-ray Binary Candidate Swift J1727.8-1613

He-Xin Liu, Yan-Jun Xu, Wei Yu +2

We report data analysis results about the outburst evolution and spectral properties during the hard state of the recently discovered X-ray transient Swift J1727.8--163 as observed…

astro-ph.HE2024

Polarization Perspectives on Hercules X-1: Further Constraining the Geometry

Qingchang Zhao, Hancheng Li, Lian Tao +24

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of the accreting X-ray pulsar, Hercules X-1, utilizing data from IXPE and NuSTAR. IXPE performed five observations of Her X-1, consisting of thr…

astro-ph.HE2024

Timing analysis of the newly discovered black hole candidate Swift J1727.8-1613 with Insight-HXMT

Wei Yu, Qing-Cui Bu, Shuang-Nan Zhang +9

We present the results obtained from an X-ray timing study of the new black hole candidate (BHC) Swift J1727.8-1613. The work is based on Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-H…

astro-ph.HE2024

Studies on the soft intermediate state X-ray flare of MAXI J1535-571 during its 2017 outburst

Ruican Ma, Lian Tao, Mariano Méndez +15

We analyzed an observation with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array of the black-hole X-ray binary MAXI J1535-571 in the soft intermediate state, in which we detected a 2.5-k…

astro-ph.HE2024

The First Polarimetric View on Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in a Black Hole X-ray Binary

Qingchang Zhao, Lian Tao, Hancheng Li +19

We present the first polarimetric analysis of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPO) in a black hole binary utilizing \textit{IXPE} data. Our study focuses on Swift J1727.8--1613, which…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Correlated spectro-polarimetric study along the Z track in XTE J1701-462 puts constraints on its coronal geometry

Wei Yu, Qingcui Bu, Victor Doroshenko +13

Context. In September 2022, the transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701-462 went into a new outburst. Aims. The objective of this work is to examine the evolution of…