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most citedBlackCAT: A catalogue of stellar-mass black holes in X-ray transients

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astro-ph.HE2023

Sub-second infrared variability from the archetypal accreting neutron star 4U~1728-34

F. M. Vincentelli, P. Casella, A. Borghese +23

We report on the first simultaneous high-time resolution X-ray and infrared (IR) observations of a neutron star low mass X-ray binary in its hard state. We performed h…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 35 cited

UltraCompCAT: a comprehensive Catalogue of Ultra-Compact and Short Orbital Period X-ray Binaries

M. Armas Padilla, J. M. Corral-Santana, A. Borghese +4

Ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are a distinctive but elusive family of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) characterised by their tight orbits and degenerate donor stars. Here we…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Ask The Machine: Systematic detection of wind-type outflows in low-mass X-ray binaries

D. Mata Sánchez, T. Muñoz-Darias, J. Casares +2

The systematic discovery of outflows in the optical spectra of low-mass X-ray binaries opened a new avenue for the study of the outburst evolution in these extreme systems. However…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the black hole transient 4U 1543-47 during its 2021 ultra-luminous state

J. Sánchez-Sierras, T. Muñoz-Darias, J. Casares +10

We present simultaneous optical and near-infrared spectra obtained during the 2021 outburst of the black hole transient 4U 1543-47. The X-ray hardness-intensity diagram and the com…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Precision Ephemerides for Gravitational-wave Searches -- IV: Corrected and refined ephemeris for Scorpius X-1

T. L. Killestein, M. Mould, D. Steeghs +3

Low-mass X-ray binaries have long been theorised as potential sources of continuous gravitational-wave radiation, yet there is no observational evidence from recent LIGO/Virgo obse…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

A refined dynamical mass for the black hole in the X-ray transient XTE J1859+226

I. V. Yanes Rizo, M. A. P. Torres, J. Casares +8

We present two contiguous nights of simultaneous time-resolved GTC spectroscopy and WHT photometry of the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1859+226, obtained in 2017 July during qui…