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20242026
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8 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Magnetic rigidity reveals the PeVatron acceleration region in SS 433

Jie Liao, Wancheng Xu, Lang Cui +10

PeVatrons are cosmic accelerators capable of driving particles to petaelectronvolt (PeV) energies. Recently, microquasar jets have emerged as compelling Galactic PeVatron candidate…

astro-ph.HE2026

X-Ray Intraday Variability of the Blazar OJ 287 Observed with XMM-Newton

Tao Huang, Alok C. Gupta, Lang Cui +4

We present X-ray intraday variability, cross-correlated variability, and power spectrum density analysis of the binary black hole blazar candidate OJ 287. The X-ray pointed observa…

astro-ph.HE2026

Testing General Relativity with NuSTAR data of Galactic Black Holes : II

Ashutosh Tripathi, Swarnim Shashank, Gitika Mall +1

General relativity predicts the spacetime metric around an astrophysical black hole to be described by the Kerr solution, which is a massive rotating black hole without any residua…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probable Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the {\tt TESS} observations of blazars in the Swift X-ray Survey

Ashutosh Tripathi, Paul J. Wiita, Krista Lynne Smith

This work presents possible quasi-periodic oscillations in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite observations of blazars that are in the 157-month hard X-ray survey done by Swi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Application of time-series analysis methods to a multiple-sector TESS observations: the case of the radio-loud blazar 3C 371

Ashutosh Tripathi, Paul J. Wiita, Ryne Dingler +4

We present various time series analysis methods to analyze multiple-sector observations of bright AGN from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and examine whether issu…

astro-ph.HE2025

Tracking the jet-like corona of black hole Swift J1727.8-1613 during a flare state through Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations

Jie Liao, Ning Chang, Lang Cui +10

Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole X-ray transients typically manifest in the low-hard and hard-intermediate states. This study presents a detailed spectral an…