5 papers
Astro-Animation -- How Artists and Scientists Envision the Universe
Laurence Arcadias, Robin H. D. Corbet, Emma Booth
For several years, students at an art college, working with NASA astronomers, have produced animations inspired by research on black holes, dark matter and more. They can be whimsi…
A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox
Robin H. D. Corbet
Applying a principle of "radical mundanity", this paper examines explanations for the lack of strong evidence for the presence of technology-using extraterrestrial civilizations (E…
Swift/XRT monitoring of the orbital and superorbital modulations in 4U 1909+07
P. Romano, H. I. Cohen, E. Bozzo +5
We report on an observational campaign performed with Swift/XRT on the wind-fed supergiant X-ray binary 4U 1909+07 to investigate the nature of the orbital and superorbital modulat…
Multiwavelength study of 1eRASS J085039.9-421151 with eROSITA NuSTAR and X-shooter
Aafia Zainab, Artur Avakyan, Victor Doroshenko +23
The eROSITA instrument on board Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma has completed four scans of the X-ray sky, leading to the detection of almost one million X-ray sources in eRASS1 only, incl…
Sharp Periodic Flares and Long-Term Variability in the High-Mass X-ray Binary XTE J1829-098 from RXTE PCA, Swift BAT and MAXI Observations
Robin H. D. Corbet, Ralf Ballhausen, Peter A. Becker +20
XTE J1829-098 is a transient X-ray pulsar with a period of ~7.8 s. It is a candidate Be star system, although the evidence for this is not yet definitive. We investigated the twent…