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astro-ph.HE2026

Complex Lags from Simple Physics

Benjamin Ricketts, Gregoire Marcel

X-ray timing information produced through Fourier analysis from the variable emission of black hole X-ray binaries has been used for several decades to provide key insights into th…

astro-ph.HE2025

nDspec: a new Python library for modelling multi-dimensional datasets in X-ray astronomy

Matteo Lucchini, Benjamin Ricketts, Phil Uttley +1

The current fleet of X-ray telescopes produces a wealth of multi-dimensional data, allowing us to study sources in time, photon energy, and polarisation. At the same time, it has b…

astro-ph.HE2025

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Equation-of-state-informed pulse profile modeling

Mariska Hoogkamer, Nathan Rutherford, Daniela Huppenkothen +9

NICER has enabled mass-radius inferences for pulsars using pulse profile modeling (PPM), providing constraints on the equation of state (EOS) of cold, dense matter. To date, PPM an…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

RTFAST-Spectra: Emulation of X-ray reverberation mapping for active galactic nuclei

Benjamin Ricketts, Daniela Huppenkothen, Matteo Lucchini +4

Bayesian analysis has begun to be more widely adopted in X-ray spectroscopy, but it has largely been constrained to relatively simple physical models due to limitations in X-ray mo…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

Mapping the X-ray variability of GRS1915+105 with machine learning

Benjamin J. Ricketts, James F. Steiner, Cecilia Garraffo +2

Black hole X-ray binary systems (BHBs) contain a close companion star accreting onto a stellar-mass black hole. A typical BHB undergoes transient outbursts during which it exhibits…