Astrophysical: Black holes

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    Multiwavelength observations of the black hole transient Swift J1745-26 during the outburst decay
    We characterized the broad-band X-ray spectra of Swift J1745-26 during the decay of the 2013 outburst using INTEGRAL ISGRI, JEM-X and Swift XRT. The X-ray...
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    Multiwavelength observations of XTE J1859+226
    On March 2 06:00 UT the transient source XTE J1859+226 had faded considerably to R=18.0 in the optical (IAC) and to a flux of about 13 mCrab (RXTE ASM). However...
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    Near-infrared emission lines trace the state-independent accretion disc wind of the black hole transient MAXI J1820+070
    The black hole transient MAXI J1820+070 displayed optical P Cyg profiles and other wind-related emission line features during the hard state of its discovery...
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    New Optical Observations of XTE J1118+480
    We report on new R-band photometry of the outbursting black hole candidate XTE J1118+480 (ATEL #383, #384) obtained with the 4.2m WHT at the Observatorio del...
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    New outbursts of two faint X-ray transients (GRS 1741.9-2853 and XMM J174457-2850.3) located in the Galactic center region
    The Galactic Center region was observed in a series of 7 pointings with the Chandra X-ray Observatory on 5 June 2005 01:44-13:08 UTC. During these observations...
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    New X-Ray Transient in M31: CXO J004412.4+412548
    We report the discovery of a new X-ray source detected in a 5ks observation starting on 2007-02-14.08 UT as part of our ongoing Chandra/HST M31 transient...
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    New X-Ray Transient in M31: CXOM31 J004059.2+411551
    We report the discovery of a previously unseen X-ray point source detected in a 5ks observation starting on 2007-07-05.54 UT as part of our ongoing Chandra/HST...
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    New X-Ray Transient in M31: CXOM31 J004258.6+411527
    We report the discovery of a previously unseen X-ray point source detected in a 10ks observation starting on 2007-06-02.93 UT as part of our ongoing Chandra/HST...
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    NIR counterparts to ULXs (III): completing the photometric survey and selected spectroscopic results
    We present results from the remaining sources in our search for near-infrared (NIR) candidate counterparts to ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) within ≃10 Mpc...