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astro-ph.HE2023

X-ray Reflection from the Plunging Region of Black Hole Accretion Disks

Jameson Dong, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Javier A. Garcıa +3

Accretion around black holes is very often characterized by distinctive X-ray reflection features (mostly, iron inner-shell transitions), which arise due to the primary radiation b…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 39 cited

Highly Significant Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Brightest Accreting Neutron Star Sco X-1

Fabio La Monaca, Alessandro Di Marco, Juri Poutanen +116

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measured with high significance the X-ray polarization of the brightest Z-source Scorpius X-1, resulting in the nominal 2-8 keV energy…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Tracking the X-ray Polarization of the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8-1613 during a State Transition

Adam Ingram, Niek Bollemeijer, Alexandra Veledina +120

We report on an observational campaign on the bright black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.81613 centered around five observations by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)…

astro-ph.HE2023

Variability as a predictor for the hard-to-soft state transition in GX 339-4

Matteo Lucchini, Marina Ten Have, Jingyi Wang +17

During the outbursts of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs), their accretion flows transition through several states. The source luminosity rises in the hard state, dominated by non…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

IXPE observation confirms a high spin in the accreting black hole 4U 1957+115

L. Marra, M. Brigitte, N. Rodriguez Cavero +113

We present the results of the first X-ray polarimetric observation of the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1957+115, performed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer in May 2023. The…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Discovery of X-ray Polarization from the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8-1613

Alexandra Veledina, Fabio Muleri, Michal Dovciak +113

We report the first detection of the X-ray polarization of the bright transient Swift J1727.8-1613 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. The observation was performed at the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

First X-ray polarization measurement confirms the low black-hole spin in LMC X-3

Jiří Svoboda, Michal Dovčiak, James F. Steiner +109

X-ray polarization is a powerful tool to investigate the geometry of accreting material around black holes, allowing independent measurements of the black hole spin and orientation…

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★ 36 cited

First detection of X-ray polarization from the accreting neutron star 4U 1820-303

Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, Juri Poutanen +116

This paper reports the first detection of polarization in the X-rays for atoll-source 4U 1820-303, obtained with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) at 99.999% confidence…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 21 cited

Investigating the impact of vertically extended coronae on X-ray reverberation mapping

Matteo Lucchini, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Jingyi Wang +9

Accreting black holes commonly exhibit hard X-ray emission, originating from a region of hot plasma near the central engine referred to as the corona. The origin and geometry of th…

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★ 5 cited

Revealing the spectral state transition of the Clocked Burster, GS 1826-238 with NuSTAR StrayCats

S. B. Yun, B. W. Grefenstette, R. M. Ludlam +4

We present the long term analysis of GS 1826-238, a neutron star X-ray binary known as the "Clocked Burster", using data from NuSTAR StrayCats. StrayCats, a catalogue of NuSTAR str…