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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,...

2016-01-01

Beardmore, A. P., Willingale, R., Kuulkers, E., Altamirano, Diego, Motta, S. E., Osborne, J. P., Page, Kim L., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert

On 2015 June 15, the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni went into outburst, exhibiting extreme X-ray variability which culminated in a final flare on June 26. Over the following days, the Swift-X-ray Telescope detected a series of bright rings, comprising five main components that expanded and...

2011-01-01

Zhang, Zhongli, Gilfanov, Marat, Voss, Rasmus, Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Kraft, Ralph P., Brassington, Nicola J., Kundu, Arunav, Jordán, Andrés Jordán, Sarazin, Craig, L.

Aims. Based on the archival data from the Chandra observations of nearby galaxies, we study different sub populations of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) – dynamically formed systems in globular clusters (GCs) and in the nucleus of M 31 and (presumably primordial) X-ray binaries in the fields of...

2018-01-01

Tetarenko, Alexandra Jean, Freeman, P., Rosolowsky, E. W., Miller-Jones, James C. A., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert

We present Atacama Large Millimetre/Sub-Millimetre Array (ALMA) observations of IRAS 19132+1035, a candidate jet–interstellar medium (ISM) interaction zone near the black hole X-ray binary (BHXB) GRS 1915+105. With these ALMA observations (combining data from the 12 m array and the Atacama...

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...

2015-01-01

Degenaar, Nathalie, Wijnands, Rudy, Bahramian, Arash, Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Heinke, Craig O., Brown, E. F., Fridriksson, Joel K., Homan, Jeroen, Cackett, Edward M., Cumming, A., Miller, Jon M., Altamirano, Diego, Pooley, David

When neutron stars reside in transient X-ray binaries, their crustal layers become heated during accretion outbursts and subsequently cool in quiescence. Observing and modelling this thermal response has yielded valuable insight into the physics of neutron star crusts. However, one unresolved...

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...

2015-01-01

Russell, Thomas D., Miller-Jones, James C. A., Curran, P. A., Soria, Roberto, Altamirano, Diego, Corbel, Stéphane, Coriat, Mickael, Moin, A., Russell, D. M., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Slaven-Blair, T. J., Belloni, Thomaso M., Fender, Rob P., Heinz, S., Jonker, P. G., Krimm, H. A., Körding, Elmar G., Maitra, D., Markoff, Sera, Middleton, Matthew, Migliari, Simone, Remillard, Ronald Alan, Rupen, Michael P., Sarazin, Craig L., Tetarenko, Alexandra Jean, Torres, M. A. P., Tudose, Valeriu, Tzioumis, A. K.

MAXI J1836−194 is a Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary that was discovered in 2011 when it went into outburst. In this paper, we present the full radio monitoring of this system during its ‘failed’ outburst, in which the source did not complete a full set of state changes, only...

2015-01-01

Curran, P. A., Miller-Jones, James C. A., Rushton, Anthony P., Pawar, Devraj D., Anderson, G. E., Altamirano, Diego, Krimm, H. A., Broderick, J. W., Belloni, Thomaso M., Fender, Rob P., Körding, E. G., Maitra, D., Markoff, Sera, Migliari, Simone, Rumsey, C., Rupen, Michael P., Russell, D. M., Russell, Thomas D., Sarazin, Craig L., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Soria, Roberto, Tetarenko, Alexandra Jean, Titterington, David, Tudose, Valeriu

XTE J1908+094 is an X-ray transient black hole candidate in the Galactic plane that was observed in outburst in 2002 and 2013. Here we present multifrequency radio and X-ray data, including radio polarimetry, spanning the entire period of the 2013 outburst. We find that the X-ray behaviour of XTE...

2017-01-01

Rushton, Anthony P., Miller-Jones, James C. A., Curran, P. A., Sivakoff, Gregory Robert, Rupen, Michael P., Paragi, Zsolt, Spencer, Ralph E., Yang, Jinhyuk, Altamirano, Diego, Belloni, Thomaso M., Fender, Rob P., Krimm, H. A., Maitra, D., Migliari, Simone, Russell, D. M., Russell, Thomas D., Soria, Roberto, Tudose, Valeriu

Black hole X-ray binaries undergo occasional outbursts caused by changing inner accretion flows. Here we report high angular resolution radio observations of the 2013 outburst of the black hole candidate X-ray binary system XTE J1908+094, using data from the Very Long Baseline Array and European...