Outputs (8)
QWIND3: UV line-driven accretion disc wind models for AGN feedback (2022)
Journal Article
The ultraviolet (UV) bright accretion disc in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) should give rise to line driving, producing a powerful wind that may play an important role in AGN feedback as well as in producing structures like the broad-line region. How... Read More about QWIND3: UV line-driven accretion disc wind models for AGN feedback.
What powers the wind from the black hole accretion disc in GRO J1655-40? (2022)
Journal Article
Black hole accretion discs can produce powerful outflowing plasma (disc winds), seen as blue-shifted absorption lines in stellar and supermassive systems. These winds in Quasars have an essential role in controlling galaxy formation across cosmic tim... Read More about What powers the wind from the black hole accretion disc in GRO J1655-40?.
Localized thermonuclear bursts from accreting magnetic white dwarfs (2022)
Journal Article
Nova explosions are caused by global thermonuclear runaways triggered in the surface layers of accreting white dwarfs1,2,3. It has been predicted4,5,6 that localized thermonuclear bursts on white dwarfs can also take place, similar to type-I X-ray bu... Read More about Localized thermonuclear bursts from accreting magnetic white dwarfs.
Multiwavelength campaign on the Super-Eddington NLS1 RX J0134.2-4258 – I. Peculiar X-ray spectra and variability (2022)
Journal Article
We have conducted a new long-term multiwavelength campaign on one of the most super-Eddington narrow-line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) known, namely RX J0134.2-4258. In this first paper, we report deep simultaneous X-ray observations performed by XMM–Newton an... Read More about Multiwavelength campaign on the Super-Eddington NLS1 RX J0134.2-4258 – I. Peculiar X-ray spectra and variability.
Origins of the UV/X-ray relation in Arakelian 120 (2022)
Journal Article
We explore the accretion geometry in Arakelian 120 using intensive UV and X-ray monitoring from Swift. The hard X-rays (1–10 keV) show large amplitude, fast (few-day) variability, so we expect reverberation from the disc to produce UV variability fro... Read More about Origins of the UV/X-ray relation in Arakelian 120.
A multi-wavelength view of distinct accretion regimes in the pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2 (2022)
Journal Article
NGC 1313 X-2 is one of the few known pulsating ultraluminous X-ray sources (PULXs), and so is thought to contain a neutron star that accretes at highly super-Eddington rates. However, the physics of this accretion remains to be determined. Here, we r... Read More about A multi-wavelength view of distinct accretion regimes in the pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2.
A full spectral-timing model to map the accretion flow in black hole binaries: the low/hard state of MAXI J1820+070 (2022)
Journal Article
The nature and geometry of the accretion flow in the low/hard state of black hole binaries is currently controversial. While most properties are generally explained in the truncated disc/hot inner flow model, the detection of a broad residual around... Read More about A full spectral-timing model to map the accretion flow in black hole binaries: the low/hard state of MAXI J1820+070.