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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

The Homogeneous MeerKAT and Swift/XRT X-ray Binary Radio:X-ray Plane

Justine Crook-Mansour, Rob Fender, Andrew Hughes +22

During the hard and quiescent spectral states in X-ray binaries, a non-linear correlation is observed between radio and X-ray luminosities, providing a valuable tool to probe the c…

astro-ph.HE2026

A multiwavelength study of the Galactic center black hole candidate MAXI J1744-294

Shifra Mandel, Kaya Mori, Paul A. Draghis +37

For the first time in nearly a decade, a bright transient was detected in the central parsec (pc) of the Galaxy. MAXI J1744-294, or -- as it was known in its previous life -- Swift…

astro-ph.HE2026

Dynamic shocks powered by a wide, relativistic, super-Eddington outflow launched by an accreting neutron star in the mid-20th century

F. J. Cowie, R. P. Fender, I. Heywood +11

Accreting systems can launch powerful outflows which interact with the surrounding medium. We combine new radio observations of the accreting neutron star X-ray binary (XRB) Circin…

astro-ph.HE2026

Large-scale radio bubbles around the black hole transient V4641 Sgr

Noa Grollimund, Stéphane Corbel, Rob Fender +7

Black holes (BHs) in microquasars can launch powerful relativistic jets that have the capacity to travel up to several parsecs from the compact object and interact with the interst…

astro-ph.HE2025

A fast powerful X-ray transient from possible tidal disruption of a white dwarf

Dongyue Li, Wenda Zhang, Jun Yang +97

Stars captured by black holes (BHs) can be torn apart by strong tidal forces, producing electromagnetic flares. To date, more than 100 tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been obse…

astro-ph.HE2025

XRISM reveals a variable, multi-phase outflow-inflow structure during the X-ray obscured 2024 outburst of the black hole transient V4641 Sgr

Maxime Parra, Megumi Shidatsu, Ryota Tomaru +23

We report the results of a simultaneous X-ray and optical spectroscopy campaign on the Galactic black hole X-ray binary V4641 Sgr, carried out with XRISM and the Seimei telescope d…