12 papers
X-ray Reflection as Diagnostic of Supermassive Black Hole Binary Properties
Julie Malewicz, Tamara Bogdanović, David R. Ballantyne +2
We investigate correlations between prominent features in the relativistic X-ray reflection spectrum emitted by an accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary with the underlyi…
Future Detections of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium using Bright Power Law Sources with NewAthena
Joseph Fisher, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Thomas Dauser +3
Context. Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations based on the -Cold Dark Matter (CDM) model predict that 40% of the baryons in the local Universe are missing. These m…
Systematic assessment of disk truncation in the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 using NICER
Ole König, James F. Steiner, Niek Bollemeijer +20
The 2023/24 NICER monitoring campaign of the 7 Crab bright black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 covered the outburst in almost all accretion states. High-quality data are ava…
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…
Relativistic reflection within an extended hot plasma geometry
Alexey D. Nekrasov, Thomas Dauser, Javier A. Garcia +9
The reflection of X-rays at the inner accretion disk around black holes imprints relativistically broadened features in the observed spectrum. Aside from the black hole properties…
The 2025 Failed Outburst of IGR J17091-3624: Spectral Evolution and the Role of Ionized Absorbers
Oluwashina K. Adegoke, Javier A. Garcia, Guglielmo Mastroserio +15
IGR J17091-3624 is the only black hole X-ray binary candidate, aside from the well-studied black hole system GRS 1915+105, observed to exhibit a wide range of structured variabilit…