7 papers
Accreting stellar-mass black holes
Greg Marcel, Bailey Tetarenko, Adam Ingram +3
Accreting stellar-mass black holes exhibit dramatic variability across the electromagnetic spectrum, including spectral state transitions, outbursts, and jet production, making the…
The strength of Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations in black hole X-ray binaries correlates with the jet inclination
F. M. Vincentelli, N. Bollemeijer, A. Veledina +10
X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are a characteristic feature of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These oscillations have been studied for decades and revealed a rich and c…
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…
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…
The strong Fe K line and spin of the black-hole X-ray binary MAXI J1631-479
Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Swadesh Chand, Gulab Dewangan +5
We study the transient black hole binary MAXI J1631--479 in its soft spectral state observed simultaneously by the NICER and NuSTAR instruments. Its puzzling feature is the presenc…
Spins of Black Holes in X-ray Binaries and the Tension with the Gravitational Wave Measurements
Andrzej A. Zdziarski, Gregoire Marcel, Alexandra Veledina +2
We review current challenges in understanding the values and origin of the spins of black holes in binaries. Thanks to recent advances in astrophysical instrumentation, the spins c…