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The Birth of a Relativistic Jet Following the Disruption of a Star by a Cosmological Black Hole
Dheeraj R. Pasham, Matteo Lucchini, Tanmoy Laskar +63
A black hole can launch a powerful relativistic jet after it tidally disrupts a star. If this jet fortuitously aligns with our line of sight, the overall brightness is Doppler boos…
Winds in ultraluminous X-ray sources: new challenges
Ciro Pinto, Peter Kosec
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are extreme X-ray binaries shining above 10^39 erg/s, in most cases as a consequence of super-Eddington accretion onto neutron stars and stellar-…
Unveiling the disc structure in ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 55 ULX-1
F. Barra, C. Pinto, D. J. Walton +11
Despite two decades of studies, it is still not clear whether ULX spectral transitions are due to stochastic variability in the wind or variations in the accretion rate or in the s…
The long stare at Hercules X-1 -- I. Emission lines from the outer disk, the magnetosphere boundary and the accretion curtain
P. Kosec, E. Kara, A. C. Fabian +11
Hercules X-1 is a nearly edge-on accreting X-ray pulsar with a warped accretion disk, precessing with a period of about 35 days. The disk precession allows for unique and changing…
A transient ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 55
A. Robba, C. Pinto, F. Pintore +14
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are a class of accreting compact objects with X-ray luminosities above 10 erg s. The average number of ULXs per galaxy is still not…
Evolution of a Relativistic Outflow and X-ray Corona in the Extreme Changing-Look AGN 1ES 1927+654
Megan Masterson, Erin Kara, Claudio Ricci +8
1ES 1927+654 is a paradigm-defying AGN and one of the most peculiar X-ray nuclear transients. In early 2018, this well-known AGN underwent a changing-look event, in which broad opt…