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20162026
most citedAn Empirical Background Model for the NICER X-ray Timing Instrument

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astro-ph.HE2026

A Multi-Wavelength Picture of the Surprisingly Short 2024/25 Outburst from EXO 0748-676

Amy H. Knight, Lauren Rhodes, Noel Castro Segura +11

After sixteen years in quiescence, EXO 0748-676 unexpectedly returned to outburst in March 2024. However, in stark contrast to its previous outburst (1985 - 2008), EXO 0748-676 ret…

astro-ph.HE2026

Studying the Variable Continuum and Emission Line Spectrum of 4U 1700-377 using NuSTAR's Stray Light

Colin J Bourque, McKinley C Brumback, Brian W Grefenstette +4

The high-mass X-ray binary 4U 1700-377 shows strong variation in brightness on timescales of hundreds of seconds due to accretion from a highly clumped stellar wind from the compan…

astro-ph.HE2026

NuSTAR's Intentional Stray Light Observation of Scorpious X-1

S. Li, R. M. Ludlam, M. Sudha +8

We present the first spectral analysis of Scorpius X-1 (Sco X-1) using intentional stray light (SL) observations taken by NuSTAR. Unlike focused observations that have high telemet…

astro-ph.HE2026

Flip-flop states in X-ray binaries and changing-state AGN

Thomas J. Maccarone, Jessie Runnoe, Gregoire Marcel +4

We show that the flip-flop transitions in X-ray binaries (rapid cycling between different spectral states which are sometimes seen near the global state transition) show a series o…

astro-ph.HE2025

Disk warping and black hole X-ray binaries I. Tentative unification of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations

Gregoire Marcel, Samuel Turner, Benjamin Ricketts +6

X-ray binaries exhibit complex variability patterns studied in the power-spectrum. These include the broad-band noise (BBN) components and various types of narrow components called…

astro-ph.HE2025

The 2025 Failed Outburst of IGR J17091-3624: Spectral Evolution and the Role of Ionized Absorbers

Oluwashina K. Adegoke, Javier A. Garcia, Guglielmo Mastroserio +15

IGR J17091-3624 is the only black hole X-ray binary candidate, aside from the well-studied black hole system GRS 1915+105, observed to exhibit a wide range of structured variabilit…