3 papers
astro-ph.HE2026
AT2021yky: A Fast-Rising Optical Transient with Evolving Broad Hydrogen Emission Consistent with an Ambiguous Nuclear Transient
Paarmita Pandey, Jason T. Hinkle, Christopher Kochanek +14
Nuclear transients are powerful probes of supermassive black hole properties, offering insight into black hole mass, accretion physics, and the structure of galactic nuclei. Among…
astro-ph.HE2026
Constraining black hole spin in PG 1535+547 amidst complex multi-layered absorption
A. Madathil-Pottayil, D. J. Walton, Jiachen Jiang +7
We present a spectroscopic analysis of XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the 'complex' NLS1 PG 1535+547 at redshift . These observations span three epochs: 2002 and 20…
astro-ph.HE2025
The population of NuSTAR Black Hole X-ray Binaries
Paul A. Draghis, Jon M. Miller, Laura Brenneman +5
The spin of a black hole (BH) encodes information about its formation and evolution history. Yet the understanding of the distribution of BH spins in X-ray binaries (XBs), of the m…