Search Results - "SORIA, Roberto"
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Spectra of black hole accretion models of ultraluminous X-ray sources
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-08-2017)“…Abstract We present general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of super-Eddington accretion on a 10 M⊙ black hole. We consider a range of…”
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Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the Chandra and XMM-Newton era
Published in New astronomy reviews (01-11-2011)“…Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are accreting black holes that may contain the missing population of intermediate mass black holes or reflect…”
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Revisiting the ultraluminous supersoft source in M 101: an optically thick outflow model
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-02-2016)“…The M 101 galaxy contains the best-known example of an ultraluminous supersoft source (ULS), dominated by a thermal component at kT ≈ 0.1 keV. The origin of…”
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Expected intermediate-mass black holes in the Virgo cluster. I. Early-type galaxies
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On the Short-period Eclipsing High-mass X-Ray Binary in NGC 4214
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2023)“…Abstract We present the results of our study of the luminous ( L X ≈ 10 39 erg s −1 ) X-ray binary CXOU J121538.2+361921 in NGC 4214, the high-mass X-ray…”
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DOES THE INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLE IN LEDA 87300 (RGG 118) FOLLOW THE NEAR-QUADRATIC Mbh-Mspheroid RELATION?
Published in The Astrophysical journal (17-02-2016)“…ABSTRACT The mass scaling relation between supermassive black holes and their host spheroids has previously been described by a quadratic or steeper relation…”
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A 300-parsec-long jet-inflated bubble around a powerful microquasar in the galaxy NGC 7793
Published in Nature (08-07-2010)“…Black-hole accretion states near or above the Eddington luminosity (the point at which radiation force outwards overcomes gravity) are still poorly known…”
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A rapidly changing jet orientation in the stellar-mass black-hole system V404 Cygni
Published in Nature (London) (01-05-2019)“…Powerful relativistic jets are one of the main ways in which accreting black holes provide kinetic feedback to their surroundings. Jets launched from or…”
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CG X-1: An Eclipsing Wolf-Rayet ULX in the Circinus Galaxy
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2019)“…We investigated the time-variability and spectral properties of the eclipsing X-ray source Circinus Galaxy X-1 (GG X-1), using Chandra, XMM-Newton and ROSAT…”
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Outbursts of the intermediate-mass black hole HLX-1: a wind-instability scenario
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2017)“…Abstract We model the intermediate-mass black hole HLX-1, using the Hubble Space Telescope, XMM–Newton and Swift. We quantify the relative contributions of a…”
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Expected intermediate mass black holes in the Virgo cluster. II. Late-type galaxies
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Identification of Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidates among a Sample of Sd Galaxies
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2024)“…Abstract We analyzed images of every northern hemisphere Sd galaxy listed in the Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies with a relatively face-on…”
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The SiTian Project
Published in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (01-01-2021)“…SiTian is an ambitious ground-based all-sky optical monitoring project, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The concept is an integrated network of…”
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Discovery of two eclipsing X-ray binaries in M 51
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2018)“…Abstract We discovered eclipses and dips in two luminous (and highly variable) X-ray sources in M 51. One (CXOM51 J132943.3+471135) is an ultraluminous…”
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Phase-dependent Study of Near-infrared Disk Emission Lines in LB-1
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-09-2020)“…The mass, origin, and evolutionary stage of the binary system LB-1 have been intensely debated, following the claim that it hosts an ∼70M black hole, in stark…”
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A Sensitive Search for Supernova Emission Associated with the Extremely Energetic and Nearby GRB 221009A
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-06-2023)“…We report observations of the optical counterpart of the long gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A. Due to the extreme rarity of being both nearby (z = 0.151) and…”
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Radio lobes and X-ray hotspots in the microquasar S26
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2010)“…We have studied the structure and energetics of the powerful microquasar/shock-ionized nebula S26 in NGC 7793, with particular focus on its radio and X-ray…”
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Swift J1727.8–1613 Has the Largest Resolved Continuous Jet Ever Seen in an X-Ray Binary
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-08-2024)“…Abstract Multiwavelength polarimetry and radio observations of Swift J1727.8–1613 at the beginning of its recent 2023 outburst suggested the presence of a…”
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How rapidly do neutron stars spin at birth? Constraints from archival X-ray observations of extragalactic supernovae
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2008)“…Traditionally, studies aimed at inferring the distribution of birth periods of neutron stars are based on radio surveys. Here we propose an independent method…”
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Optical counterpart of HLX-1 during the 2010 outburst
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-03-2012)“…We studied the optical counterpart of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate HLX-1 in ESO 243−49. We used a set of Very Large Telescope imaging…”
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