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19952025
most citedThe role of the reflection fraction in constraining black hole spin

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astro-ph.HE2025

Millihertz Oscillations Near the Innermost Orbit of a Supermassive Black Hole

Megan Masterson, Erin Kara, Christos Panagiotou +22

Recent discoveries from time-domain surveys are defying our expectations for how matter accretes onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The increased rate of short-timescale, repet…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Evidence for a dynamic corona in the short-term time lags of black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

Niek Bollemeijer, Phil Uttley, Arkadip Basak +19

In X-ray observations of hard state black hole X-ray binaries, rapid variations in accretion disc and coronal power-law emission are correlated and show Fourier-frequency-dependent…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

BASS XLII: The relation between the covering factor of dusty gas and the Eddington ratio in nearby active galactic nuclei

C. Ricci, K. Ichikawa, M. Stalevski +25

Accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located at the center of galaxies are typically surrounded by large quantities of gas and dust. The structure and evolution of this circu…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 16 cited

A New Transient Ultraluminous X-ray Source in NGC 7090

D. J. Walton, M. Heida, M. Bachetti +17

We report on the discovery of a new, transient ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the galaxy NGC 7090. This new ULX, which we refer to as NGC 7090 ULX3, was discovered via monitor…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 15 cited

MAXI J1820+070 with NuSTAR II. Flaring during the hard to soft state transition with a long soft lag

D. J. K. Buisson, A. C. Fabian, P. Gandhi +6

We continue the analysis of NuSTAR data from the recent discovery outburst of MAXI J1820+070 (optical counterpart ASASSN-18ey), focussing on an observation including unusual flarin…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 23 cited

Evidence of runaway gas cooling in the absence of supermassive black hole feedback at the epoch of cluster formation

J. Hlavacek-Larrondo, C. L. Rhea, T. Webb +17

Cosmological simulations, as well as mounting evidence from observations, have shown that supermassive black holes play a fundamental role in regulating the formation of stars thro…