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Understanding X-ray irradiation in low-mass X-ray binaries directly from their light-curves
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Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Tetarenko, Bailey E., Dubus, G., Lasota, Jean-Pierre, Heinke, Craig O.
The X-ray light curves of the recurring outbursts observed in low-mass X-ray binaries provide strong test beds for constraining (still) poorly understood disc-accretion processes. These light curves act as a powerful diagnostic to probe the physics behind the mechanisms driving mass inflow and...
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2017-01-01
Bahramian, Arash, Heinke, Craig O., Tudor, Vlad, Miller-Jones, James. C. A., Bogdanov, Slavko, Maccarone, Thomas J., Knigge, C., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Chomiuk, Laura, Strader, Jay, Garcia, Javier A., Kallman, Timothy
47 Tuc X9 is a low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, and was previously thought to be a cataclysmic variable. However, Miller-Jones et al. recently identified a radio counterpart to X9 (inferring a radio/X-ray luminosity ratio consistent with black hole LMXBs), and...
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2014-01-01
Russell, Thomas D., Soria, Roberto, Miller-Jones, James C. A., Curran, P. A., Markoff, Sera, Russell, D. M., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert
We present the results of our quasi-simultaneous radio, submm, infrared, optical and X-ray study of the Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1836−194 during its 2011 outburst. We consider the full multiwavelength spectral evolution of the outburst, investigating whether the evolution...
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2011-01-01
Coriat, Mickael, Corbel, Stephane, Prat, L., Miller-Jones, James. C. A., Cseh, D., Tzioumis, A. K., Brocksopp, C., Rodriguez, Jerome, Fender, Rob P., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert
In recent years, much effort has been devoted to unravelling the connection between the accretion flow and the jets in accreting compact objects. In the present work, we report new constraints on these issues, through the long-term study of the radio and X-ray behaviour of the black hole...
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2015-01-01
Coppejans, Deanne L., Körding, Elmar G., Miller-Jones, James C. A., Rupen, Michael P., Knigge, C., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Groot, Paul J.
Radio emission from non-magnetic cataclysmic variables (CVs, accreting white dwarfs) could allow detailed studies of outflows and possibly accretion flows in these nearby, numerous and non-relativistic compact accretors. Up to now, however, very few CVs have been detected in the radio. We have...
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2018-01-01
Shaw, A. W., Heinke, Craig O., Mukai, K., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Tomsick, John A., Rana, Vikram
The X-ray spectra of intermediate polars can be modelled to give a direct measurement of white dwarf mass. Here, we fit accretion column models to NuSTAR spectra of three intermediate polars; V709 Cas, NY Lup, and V1223 Sgr in order to determine their masses. From fits to 3–78 keV spectra, we...
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2018-01-01
Tudor, Vlad, Miller-Jones, James C. A., Knigge, C., Maccarone, Thomas J., Tauris, T. M., Bahramian, Arash, Chomiuk, Laura, Heinke, Craig O., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Strader, Jay, Plotkin, Richard M., Soria, Roberto, Albrow, M. D., Anderson, G. E., van den Berg, Maureen, Bernardini, Federico, Bogdanov, Slavko, Britt, Christopher. T., Russell, D. M., Zurek, David R.
To confirm the nature of the donor star in the ultracompact X-ray binary candidate 47 Tuc X9, we obtained optical spectra (3000–10 000 Å) with the Hubble Space Telescope / Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. We find no strong emission or absorption features in the spectrum of X9. In particular,...
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2016-01-01
Coppejans, Deanne L., Körding, Elmar G., Miller-Jones, James. C. A., Rupen, Michael P., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Knigge, C., Groot, Paul J., Woudt, Patrick Alan, Waagen, Elizabeth O., Templeton, Matthew
We present 8–12 GHz radio light curves of five dwarf nova (DN) type cataclysmic variable stars (CVs) in outburst (RX And, U Gem, and Z Cam), or superoutburst (SU UMa and YZ Cnc), increasing the number of radio-detected DN by a factor of 2. The observed radio emission was variable on time-scales...
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2012-01-01
Miller-Jones, James. C. A., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Altamirano, Diego, Coriat, Mickael, Corbel, Stephane, Dhawan, Vasudha, Krimm, H. A., Remillard, Ronald Alan, Rupen, Michael. P., Russell, D. M., Fender, Rob P., Heinz, S., Körding, Elmar. G., Maitra, D., Markoff, Sera, Migliari, Simone, Sarazin, Craig. L., Tudose, Valeriu
We present an intensive radio and X-ray monitoring campaign on the 2009 outburst of the Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary H1743−322. With the high angular resolution of the Very Long Baseline Array, we resolve the jet ejection event and measure the proper motions of the jet ejecta...
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2012-01-01
Altamirano, Diego, Keek, L., Cumming, A., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Heinke, Craig O., Wijnands, Rudy, Degenaar, Nathalie, Homan, Jeroen, Pooley, David
We report on Chandra, Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and MAXI observations of an X-ray flare of ∼1 d and subsequent outburst of a transient X-ray source observed in 2011 October–November in the globular cluster Terzan 5. We show that the source is the same...