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Studying the Variable Continuum and Emission Line Spectrum of 4U 1700-377 using NuSTAR's Stray Light
Colin J Bourque, McKinley C Brumback, Brian W Grefenstette +4
The high-mass X-ray binary 4U 1700-377 shows strong variation in brightness on timescales of hundreds of seconds due to accretion from a highly clumped stellar wind from the compan…
NuSTAR's Intentional Stray Light Observation of Scorpious X-1
S. Li, R. M. Ludlam, M. Sudha +8
We present the first spectral analysis of Scorpius X-1 (Sco X-1) using intentional stray light (SL) observations taken by NuSTAR. Unlike focused observations that have high telemet…
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…
Reflecting on Accretion in Neutron Star Low-Mass X-ray Binaries
Renee M. Ludlam
Neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries accrete via Roche-lobe overflow from a stellar companion that is 1 M. The accretion disk in these systems can be externall…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): A New Window into Neutron Star Accretion
R. M. Ludlam, C. Malacaria, E. Sokolova-Lapa +15
Accreting neutron stars (NSs) represent a unique laboratory for probing the physics of accretion in the presence of strong magnetic fields ( G). Additionally, the ma…
X-ray Spectral and Variability Properties of Low-Mass AGN
R. M. Ludlam, E. M. Cackett, K. Gultekin +3
We study the X-ray properties of a sample of 14 optically-selected low-mass AGN whose masses lie within the range 1E5 -2E6 M(solar) with XMM-Newton. Only six of these low-mass AGN…