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Radio flares and X-ray hardening embedded in the long soft state of 4U 1543-475
Zuobin Zhang, Rob Fender, Jiachen Jiang +14
We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1543-475 during its 2021 outburst, focusing on radio flaring episodes that are commonly interpre…
Dense, multi-phase accretion disk atmosphere in the low-luminosity state of black hole transientV4641 Sgr
Zuobin Zhang, Rob Fender, James H. Matthews +11
We present soft X-ray spectroscopy of the black-hole X-ray binary V4641~Sgr with the \textit{XMM-Newton} Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS). The RGS spectrum shows narrow emissi…
A clean broad iron line in GS 1354--64 as seen by XRISM
Honghui Liu, Lingda Kong, Oluwashina K. Adegoke +13
We present a spectroscopic analysis of XRISM and NuSTAR observations of the black hole X-ray binary GS~1354--64 during its 2026 outburst. A total number of 3.5 million photons are…
Modeling X-ray reflection spectra from disk returning radiation: Application to 4U 1630-47
Kostas Kourmpetis, Shafqat Riaz, Honghui Liu +6
Returning radiation is thought to play a key role in disk illumination of black-hole X-ray binaries in the high-soft state, yet it has not been fully incorporated into XSPEC reflec…
Evidence of mutually exclusive outflow forms from a black hole X-ray binary
Zuobin Zhang, Jiachen Jiang, Francesco Carotenuto +13
Accretion onto black holes often leads to the launch of outflows that significantly influence their surrounding environments. The two primary forms of these outflows are X-ray disk…
Decoding Cygnus X-2: The Critical Role of Reflection in IXPE Data
Honghui Liu, Jiachen Jiang, Adam Ingram +10
We present a spectro-polarimetric re-analysis of the first IXPE observation of Cygnus X-2 which we determine to be mainly in the normal branch, from quasi-simultaneous observations…
Searching for Isolated Black Hole Candidates within 15 pc of the Solar System in Gaia DR3
Abdurakhmon Nosirov, Cosimo Bambi, Leda Gao +4
Theoretical models predict that the Galaxy hosts - black holes formed from the complete gravitational collapse of heavy stars and that most of these black holes are iso…
Assessing systematic uncertainties from spectral re-analysis of Cyg X-1 with different coronal geometries
Abdurakhmon Nosirov, Jiachen Jiang, Cosimo Bambi +1
In this work, we carry out a new spectral reanalysis of NuSTAR and Suzaku observations of the disk reflection spectra in the stellar-mass black hole X-ray binary Cyg~X-1. We compar…
DAO: A New and Public Non-Relativistic Reflection Model
Yimin Huang, Honghui Liu, Cosimo Bambi +4
We present a new non-relativistic reflection model, DAO, designed to calculate reflection spectra in the rest frame of accretion disks in X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei.…
Spin Constraints on 4U 1630-47 via combined Continuum Fitting and Reflection methods: a comparative study using Frequentist and Bayesian statistics
Debtroy Das, Honghui Liu, Zuobin Zhang +5
We present a comprehensive Bayesian spectral analysis of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 during its 2022 outburst, using simultaneous NICER and NuSTAR observations. Using th…
X-ray reflection spectroscopy with improved calculations of the emission angle
Yimin Huang, Honghui Liu, Temurbek Mirzaev +10
The reflection spectrum produced by a cold medium illuminated by X-ray photons is not isotropic and its shape depends on the emission angle. In the reflection spectrum of an accret…
Probing the Strong Gravity Region of Black Holes with eXTP
Qingcui Bu, Cosimo Bambi, Lijun Gou +42
We present the novel capabilities of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to study the strong gravity region around stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binary sys…
A rapid black hole spin or emission from the plunging region?
Andrew Mummery, Jiachen Jiang, Adam Ingram +2
Emission from within the plunging region of black hole accretion flows has recently been detected in two X-ray binary systems. There is, furthermore, a possible discrepancy between…
Extracting the X-ray reverberation response functions from the AGN light curves using an autoencoder
Sanhanat Deesamutara, Poemwai Chainakun, Tirawut Worrakitpoonpon +5
We study the X-ray reverberation in active galactic nuclei (AGN) using the variational autoencoder (VAE), which is a machine-learning algorithm widely used for signal processing an…
Fifty Years After the Discovery of the First Stellar-Mass Black Hole: A Review of Cyg X-1
Jiachen Jiang
Around 50 years ago, the famous bet between Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne on whether Cyg X-1 hosts a stellar-mass black hole became a well-known story in the history of black hole…
Self-Consistent Disk-Reflection Analysis of the Black-Hole Candidate X-ray Binary MAXI J1813-095 with NICER, Swift, Chandra, and NuSTAR
Santiago Ubach, James F. Steiner, Jiachen Jiang +5
We present our analysis of MAXI J1813-095 during its hard state ``stalled'' outburst in 2018. This self-consistent analysis has been carried out using \NICER, \Swift, \Chandra, and…
Modeling reflection spectra of super-Eddington X-ray sources
Swarnim Shashank, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Honghui Liu +5
Relativistic reflection is a common feature in the X-ray observations of accreting compact objects. We present reflux, a new X-ray reflection model for spectral analysis of super-E…
Plunging region emission in the X-ray binary MAXI J0637430
Andrew Mummery, Jiachen Jiang, Andrew Fabian
On the second of November 2019 the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J0637430 went into outburst, at the start of which it was observed in a thermal ``disc-dominated'' state. High ph…
X-ray spectra of black hole X-ray binaries with returning radiation
Temurbek Mirzaev, Cosimo Bambi, Askar B. Abdikamalov +4
In the disk-corona model, the X-ray spectrum of a stellar-mass black hole in an X-ray binary is characterized by three components: a thermal component from a thin and cold accretio…
Variable ionized disk wind in MAXI J1803-298 revealed by NICER
Zuobin Zhang, Cosimo Bambi, Honghui Liu +7
We present the results from the NICER observation data of MAXI J1803-298 across the entire 2021 outburst. In the intermediate and soft state, we detect significant absorption lines…
The Origin of the X-ray Emission from the Non-Starburst Gas-Rich Luminous Infrared Galaxies Arp 302
Jiachen Jiang, William Baker, Andrew Young +1
We present an analysis of the XMM-Newton observation of luminous infrared merging galaxies Arp 302 and a joint re-analysis of its Chandra observation. In particular, we focus on th…
Towards more accurate synthetic reflection spectra: improving the calculations of returning radiation
Temurbek Mirzaev, Shafqat Riaz, Askar B. Abdikamalov +6
We present a new model to calculate reflection spectra of thin accretion disks in Kerr spacetimes. Our model includes the effect of returning radiation, which is the radiation that…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Probing Accretion onto Stellar Mass Black Holes
Riley Connors, John Tomsick, Paul Draghis +20
Accretion is a universal astrophysical process that plays a key role in cosmic history, from the epoch of reionization to galaxy and stellar formation and evolution. Accreting stel…