Towards precision measurements of accreting black holes using X-ray reflection spectroscopy

C Bambi, LW Brenneman, T Dauser, JA Garcia… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Relativistic reflection features are commonly observed in the X-ray spectra of accreting black
holes. In the presence of high quality data and with the correct astrophysical model, X-ray …

Systematically Revisiting All NuSTAR Spins of Black Holes in X-Ray Binaries

PA Draghis, JM Miller, E Costantini… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We extend our recent work on black hole spin in X-ray binary systems to include an analysis
of 189 archival NuSTAR observations from 24 sources. Using self-consistent data reduction …

A systematic view of ten new black hole spins

PA Draghis, JM Miller, A Zoghbi… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The launch of NuSTAR and the increasing number of binary black hole (BBH) mergers
detected through gravitational wave observations have exponentially advanced our …

Testing general relativity with NuSTAR data of galactic black holes

A Tripathi, Y Zhang, AB Abdikamalov… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Einstein's theory of General Relativity predicts that the spacetime metric around
astrophysical black holes is described by the Kerr solution. In this work, we employ state-of …

NuSTAR monitoring of MAXI J1348−630: evidence of high density disc reflection

S Chakraborty, A Ratheesh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present the broad-band spectral analysis of all the six hard, intermediate, and soft state
NuSTAR observations of the recently discovered transient black hole X-ray binary MAXI …

The hills mechanism and the galactic center S-stars

A Generozov, AM Madigan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Our Galactic center contains young stars, including the few million year-old clockwise disk
between 0.05 and 0.5 pc from the Galactic center and the S-star cluster of B-type stars at a …

The x-ray binary population in the Galactic Center revealed through multi-decade observations

K Mori, CJ Hailey, T Schutt, S Mandel… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an investigation of the quiescent and transient X-ray binaries (XRBs) of the
Galactic Center (GC). We extended our Chandra analysis of the non-thermal X-ray sources …

The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): Resolving the nature of Sgr A* flares, compact object binaries and diffuse X-ray emission in the Galactic center and beyond

K Mori, G Ponti, M Bachetti, A Bodaghee… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
HEX-P is a probe-class mission concept that will combine high spatial resolution X-ray
imaging (< 1 0 ″FWHM) and broad spectral coverage (0.2–80 keV) with an effective area …

Iron Kα echoes from the circumnuclear disk orbiting Sɡr A⋆

G Stel, G Ponti, F Haardt - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Molecular clouds in the Galactic center (GC) reprocess radiation from past
outbursts of nearby high-energy sources, generating a bright Fe Kα fluorescence at 6.4 keV …

Systematically Revisiting All NuSTAR Spins of Black Holes in X-Ray Binaries

PA Draghis, JM Miller, E Costantini, LC Gallo… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We extend our recent work on black hole spin in X-ray binary systems to include an analysis
of 189 archival NuSTAR observations from 24 sources. Using self-consistent data reduction …