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19952023
most citedThe Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Mission

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astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

The first X-ray look at SMSS J114447.77-430859.3: the most luminous quasar in the last 9 Gyr

E. S. Kammoun, Z. Igo, J. M. Miller +18

SMSS\,J114447.77-430859.3 () has been identified in the SkyMapper Southern Survey as the most luminous quasar in the last . In this paper, we report on the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Tidal disruption events and quasi periodic eruptions

Natalie A. Webb, Didier Barret, Olivier Godet +4

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star passes close to a massive black hole, so that the tidal forces of the black hole exceed the binding energy of a star and cause it t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

A hard look at the X-ray spectral variability of NGC 7582

Mehdy Lefkir, Elias Kammoun, Didier Barret +5

NGC 7582 (z = 0.005264; D = 22.5 Mpc) is a highly variable, changing-look AGN. In this work, we explore the X-ray properties of this source using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR archival obs…

astro-ph.IM2023

XMM2ATHENA, the H2020 project to improve XMM-Newton analysis software and prepare for Athena

Natalie A. Webb, Francisco J. Carrera, Axel Schwope +31

XMM-Newton, a European Space Agency observatory, has been observing the X-ray, ultra-violet and optical sky for 23 years. During this time, astronomy has evolved from mainly studyi…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 25 cited

Probing the nature of the low state in the extreme ultraluminous X-ray pulsar NGC 5907 ULX1

F. Fuerst, D. J. Walton, G. L. Israel +13

NGC 5907 ULX1 is the most luminous ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar (ULXP) known to date, reaching luminosities in excess of 1e41 erg/s. The pulsar is known for its fast spin-up during…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jan-Willem den Herder +296

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile ob…