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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…
A NICER view of the corona through time-dependent Comptonization of the quasi-periodic oscillations in nine black-hole X-ray binaries
Yuexin Zhang, Mariano Méndez, James F. Steiner +12
We present a systematic study of the evolution of the corona geometry in nine black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) using archival data from NICER. We identify 171 observations exhibi…
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…
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.…
Assessing the Power-Law Emissivity Assumption in X-ray Reflection Spectroscopy: A Simulation-Based Evaluation of Different Coronal Geometries
Songcheng Li, Abdurakhmon Nosirov, Cosimo Bambi +3
The emissivity profile assumed in X-ray reflection spectroscopy significantly impacts black hole spin measurements. Using simulated NuSTAR spectra generated for lamppost and disk-l…
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…
Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies Beyond the Local X-ray Universe: An X-ray spectral sample
Jiachen Jiang, Dominic J. Walton, Luigi C. Gallo +8
Narrow-line Seyfert 1 AGNs (NLS1s) represent a unique stage in the black hole growth history, characterised by low black hole masses of approximately - solar masses…
Impact of the returning radiation on X-ray reflection spectroscopy measurements: the case of Galactic black holes
Kexin Huang, Honghui Liu, Cosimo Bambi +2
The effect of the returning radiation has long been ignored in the analysis of the reflection spectra of Galactic black holes and active galactic nuclei and only recently has been…
About the accuracy of the relxill/relxill_nk models in view of the next generation of X-ray missions
Honghui Liu, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Temurbek Mirzaev +4
X-ray reflection spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study the strong gravity region of black holes. The next generation of astrophysical X-ray missions promises to provide unpreced…
The 2018 outburst of MAXI J1820+070 as seen by Insight-HXMT
Ningyue Fan, Songyu Li, Rui Zhan +8
We present an analysis of the whole 2018 outburst of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 with Insight-HXMT data. We focus our study on the temporal evolution of the paramete…
Impact of reflection Comptonization on X-ray reflection spectroscopy: the case of EXO 1846-031
Songcheng Li, Honghui Liu, Cosimo Bambi +2
Within the disk-corona model, it is natural to expect that a fraction of reflection photons from the disk are Compton scattered by the hot corona (reflection Comptonization), even…
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…
Testing regular black holes with X-ray and GW data
Shafqat Riaz, Swarnim Shashank, Rittick Roy +5
The presence of spacetime singularities in physically relevant solutions of the Einstein Equations is normally interpreted as a symptom of the breakdown of classical general relati…