The birth of a relativistic jet following the disruption of a star by a cosmological black hole

DR Pasham, M Lucchini, T Laskar, BP Gompertz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
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 boosted by several …

Study of recent outburst in the Be/X-ray binary RX J0209.6−7427 with AstroSat: a new ultraluminous X-ray pulsar in the Magellanic Bridge?

AD Chandra, J Roy, PC Agrawal… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present the timing and spectral studies of RX J0209. 6–7427 during its rare 2019
outburst using observations with the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) and Large Area X-ray …

AstroSat view of MAXI J1535−571: broad-band spectro-temporal features

H Sreehari, BT Ravishankar, N Iyer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the results of Target of Opportunity (ToO) observations made with AstroSat of the
newly discovered black hole binary MAXI J1535− 571. We detect prominent C-type quasi …

AstroSat and MAXI view of the black hole binary 4U 1630−472 during 2016 and 2018 outbursts

BE Baby, VK Agrawal, MC Ramadevi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present an in-depth spectral and timing analysis of the black hole binary 4U 1630− 472
during 2016 and 2018 outbursts as observed by AstroSat and MAXI. The extensive …

AstroSat View of the Neutron Star Low-mass X-Ray Binary GX 340+ 0

Y Bhargava, S Bhattacharyya, J Homan… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Understanding the spectral evolution along the" Z"-shaped track in the hardness–intensity
diagram of Z sources, which are a class of luminous neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries, is …

A spectral study of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 with AstroSat and NuSTAR

S Chakraborty, N Navale, A Ratheesh… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT MAXI J1820+ 070 is a newly discovered transient black hole X-ray binary, which
showed several spectral and temporal features. In this work, we analyse the broad-band X …

The accretion/ejection link in the neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1820-30 I: a boundary layer-jet coupling?

A Marino, TD Russell, M Del Santo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The accretion flow/jet correlation in neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) is far
less understood when compared to black hole (BH) LMXBs. In this paper we will present the …

Wide-band view of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations of GRS 1915+105 in 'softer' variability classes observed with AstroSat

S Majumder, H Sreehari, N Aftab… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of the 'softer'variability classes
(ie θ, β, δ, ρ, κ, ω and γ) of the source GRS 1915+ 105 observed by AstroSat during the …

Testing the dynamic origin of Quasi-periodic Oscillations in MAXI J1535− 571 and H 1743− 322

D Rawat, N Husain, R Misra - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigate spectro-temporal properties for two black hole X-ray binary sources, MAXI
J1535− 571 and H 1743− 322, during their hard and hard-intermediate states. For MAXI …

Broad-band mHz QPOs and spectral study of LMC X-4 with AstroSat

R Sharma, C Jain, K Rikame… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report the results of broad-band timing and spectral analysis of data from an AstroSat
observation of the high-mass X-ray binary LMC X-4. The Large Area X-ray Proportional …