Radiation GRMHD simulations of the hard state of black hole x-ray binaries and the collapse of a hot accretion flow

J Dexter, N Scepi, MC Begelman - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present global radiation GRMHD simulations of strongly magnetized accretion onto a
spinning, stellar mass black hole at sub-Eddington rates. Using a frequency-dependent …

Long-term X-ray spectral variability in AGN from the Palomar sample observed by Swift

SD Connolly, IM McHardy, CJ Skipper… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present X-ray spectral variability of 24 local active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the
Palomar sample of nearby galaxies, as observed mainly by Swift. From hardness ratio …

Phase-resolved spectroscopy of Type B quasi-periodic oscillations in GX 339-4

AL Stevens, P Uttley - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present a new spectral-timing technique for phase-resolved spectroscopy and apply it to
the low-frequency Type B quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) from the black hole X-ray binary …

Black hole mass accretion rates and efficiency factors for over 750 AGN and multiple GBH

RA Daly - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Mass accretion rates in dimensionless and physical units, and efficiency factors describing
the total radiant luminosity of the disc and the beam power of the outflow are obtained and …

Large and complex X-ray time lags from black hole accretion discs with compact inner coronae

P Uttley, J Malzac - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Black hole X-ray binaries in their hard and hard-intermediate states display hard and soft
time lags between broad-band noise variations (high-energy emission lagging low-energy …

Signatures of feedback in the spectacular extended emission region of NGC 5972

T Harvey, WP Maksym, W Keel, M Koss… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present Chandra X-ray Observatory observations and Space Telescope Imaging
Spectrograph spectra of NGC 5972, one of the 19 'Voorwerpjes' galaxies. This galaxy …

An extreme ultraluminous X-ray source X-1 in NGC 5055

S Mondal, A Różańska, EV Lai, B De Marco - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Aims. We analysed multi-epoch X-ray data of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5055 X-1,
with luminosity up to 2.32× 10 40 erg s− 1, to constrain the physical parameters of the …

Signatures of Feedback in the Spectacular Extended Emission Region of NGC 5972

T Harvey, WP Maksym, W Keel, M Koss… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present Chandra X-ray Observatory observations and Space Telescope Imaging
Spectrograph spectra of NGC 5972, one of the 19" Voorwerpjes" galaxies. This galaxy …

Analysis of X‐Ray Beam Hardening Correction Method Relying on Cloud Computing Big Data

Y Liu, Y Li, S Jiang, P Zhao, X Qin… - … Problems in Engineering, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Regarding the correction of X‐ray beam hardening in the current CT imaging system, the
traditional method will cause the overlapping of images during use, which will gradually …

[PDF][PDF] New techniques for understanding rapid X-ray variability from compact objects

AL Stevens - 2018 - pure.uva.nl
Gravity is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. We can understand gravity in the
weak-field limit, that is, in flat and weakly-curved spacetime, with Newtonian and post …