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astro-ph.IM2023★ 117 cited

Sciences with the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST)

WFST Collaboration, Tinggui Wang, Guilin Liu +60

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility being built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China and the Purple Mountai…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

An XMM-Newton Study of Six Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies at z = 0.35--0.92

Zhibo Yu, Jiachen Jiang, Cosimo Bambi +5

We report a detailed analysis of the XMM-Newton spectra of six Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies at redshift z = 0.35--0.92. Compared with the NLS1s at lower redshift in the pr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Reflection and timing study of the transient black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1803-298 with NuSTAR

Benjamin M. Coughenour, John A. Tomsick, Guglielmo Mastroserio +9

The transient black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1803-298 was discovered on 2021 May 1, as it went into outburst from a quiescent state. As the source rose in flux it showed periodic ab…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

High-density reflection spectroscopy of black hole X-ray binaries in the hard state

Honghui Liu, Jiachen Jiang, Zuobin Zhang +9

We present a high-density relativistic reflection analysis of 21 spectra of six black hole X-ray binaries in the hard state with data from \textit{NuSTAR} and \textit{Swift}. We fi…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 20 cited

Initial Flash and Spectral Formation of Type Ia Supernovae with An Envelope: Applications to Over-luminous SNe Ia

Keiichi Maeda, Ji-an Jiang, Mamoru Doi +2

Over-luminous type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) show peculiar observational features, for which an explosion of a super-massive white dwarf (WD) beyond the classical Chandrasekhar-limiti…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 17 cited

Prospects of Searching for Type Ia Supernovae with 2.5-m Wide Field Survey Telescope

Maokai Hu, Lei Hu, Ji-an Jiang +4

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are the thermonuclear explosion of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf (WD) and are well-known as a distance indicator. However, it is still unclear how WDs inc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 25 cited

The hard to soft transition of GX 339-4 as seen by Insight-HXMT

Honghui Liu, Cosimo Bambi, Jiachen Jiang +6

We present an analysis of the relativistic reflection spectra of GX 339-4 during the hard-to-soft transition of its 2021 outburst observed by Insight-HXMT. The strong relativistic…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

X-ray Reverberation Mapping of Ark 564 using Gaussian Process Regression

Collin D. Lewin, Erin Kara, Daniel R. Wilkins +15

Ark 564 is an extreme high-Eddington Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy, known for being one of the brightest, most rapidly variable soft X-ray AGN, and for having one of the lowest temp…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 3 cited

Comparing Reflection and Absorption Models for the Soft X-ray Variability in the NLS1 AGN UGC 11763

Jiachen Jiang, Luigi C. Gallo, Dirk Grupe +1

We present a spectral analysis of two XMM-Newton observations of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy UGC 11763. UGC 11763 shows very different soft X-ray spectral shapes in the two ob…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

The long-stable hard state of XTE J1752-223 and the disk truncation dilemma

Riley M. T. Connors, Javier A. Garcia, John Tomsick +10

The degree to which the thin accretion disks of black hole X-ray binaries are truncated during hard spectral states remains a contentious open question in black hole astrophysics.…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 4 cited

The Low Temperature Corona in ESO 511G030 Revealed by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton

Zuobin Zhang, Jiachen Jiang, Honghui Liu +9

We present the results from a coordinated XMM-Newton NuSTAR observation of the Seyfert 1 Galaxy ESO 511G030. With this joint monitoring programme, we conduct a detailed vari…

astro-ph.HE2022

Mapping the X-ray corona evolution of IRAS 13224-3809 with the power spectral density

Poemwai Chainakun, Wasuthep Luangtip, Jiachen Jiang +1

We develop the power spectral density (PSD) model to explain the nature of the X-ray variability in IRAS 13224-3809, including the full effects of the X-ray reverberation due to th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

MUSSES2020J: The Earliest Discovery of a Fast Blue Ultraluminous Transient at Redshift 1.063

Ji-an Jiang, Naoki Yasuda, Keiichi Maeda +22

In this Letter, we report the discovery of an ultraluminous fast-evolving transient in rest-frame UV wavelengths, MUSSES2020J, soon after its occurrence by using the Hyper Suprime-…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

A Disc Reflection Model for Ultra-Soft Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Jiachen Jiang, Luigi C. Gallo, Andrew C. Fabian +2

We present a detailed analysis of the XMM-Newton observations of five narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s). They all show very soft continuum emission in the X-ray band with a ph…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

A NuSTAR and Swift View of the Hard State of MAXI J1813-095

Jiachen Jiang, Douglas J. K. Buisson, Thomas Dauser +9

We present an analysis of the NuSTAR and Swift spectra of the black hole candidate MAXI J1813-095 in a failed-transition outburst in 2018. The NuSTAR observations show evidence of…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 15 cited

Black Hole Spin Measurements Based on a Thin Disc Model with Finite Thickness I. An example study of MCG-06-30-15

Jiachen Jiang, Askar B. Abdikamalov, Cosimo Bambi +1

We present a re-analysis of the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observing campaign for the well-studied, X-ray-bright AGN MCG-06-30-15. In particular, we consider a disc model with finite th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

XMM-Newton Observations of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy IRAS 132243809 : X-ray Spectral Analysis II

Jiachen Jiang, Thomas Dauser, Andrew C. Fabian +4

Previously, we modelled the X-ray spectra of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 132243809 using a disc reflection model with a fixed electron density of cm.…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 15 cited

Deep simultaneous limits on optical emission from FRB 20190520B by 24.4 fps observations with Tomo-e Gozen

Yuu Niino, Mamoru Doi, Shigeyuki Sako +16

We conduct 24.4~fps optical observations of repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 20190520B using Tomo-e Gozen, a high-speed CMOS camera mounted on the Kiso 105-cm Schmidt telescope, si…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

The disk wind in GRS 1915+105 as seen by Insight-HXMT

Honghui Liu, Yuhan Fu, Cosimo Bambi +7

We analyze three observations of GRS 1915+105 in 2017 by Insight-HXMT when the source was in a spectrally soft state. We find strong absorption lines from highly ionized iron, whic…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 16 cited

Rapidly alternating flux states of GX 339-4 during its 2021 outburst captured by Insight-HXMT

Honghui Liu, Jiachen Jiang, Zuobin Zhang +4

The low mass X-ray binary GX 339-4 went into a new outburst in 2021. At the end of the hard to soft transition of this outburst, Insight-HXMT found that the source rapidly alternat…

astro-ph.HE2021

A significant detection of X-ray Polarization in Sco X-1 with PolarLight and constraints on the corona geometry

Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng, Hong Li +23

We report the detection of X-ray polarization in the neutron star low mass X-ray binary Scorpius (Sco) X-1 with PolarLight. The result is energy dependent, with a non-detection in…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 50 cited

Discovery of the Fastest Early Optical Emission from Overluminous SN Ia 2020hvf: A Thermonuclear Explosion within a Dense Circumstellar Environment

Ji-an Jiang, Keiichi Maeda, Miho Kawabata +28

In this Letter we report a discovery of a prominent flash of a peculiar overluminous Type Ia supernova, SN 2020hvf, in about 5 hours of the supernova explosion by the first wide-fi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Spectral and Timing Analysis of NuSTAR and Swift/XRT Observations of the X-Ray Transient MAXI J0637-430

Hadar Lazar, John A. Tomsick, Sean N. Pike +10

We present results for the first observed outburst from the transient X-ray binary source MAXI J0637-430. This study is based on eight observations from the Nuclear Spectroscopic T…

astro-ph.HE2021

Photospheric Radius Expansion and a double-peaked type-I X-ray burst from GRS 1741.9-2853

Sean N. Pike, Fiona A. Harrison, John A. Tomsick +6

We present analysis of two type-I X-ray bursts observed by NuSTAR originating from the very faint transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GRS 1741.9-2853 during a period of ou…