Something slightly different today. Recently I posted about some work I was involved with where we discovered a candidate X-ray binary in the galaxy M83. However, that work came out of a much larger project completely unrelated to X-ray binaries. For the past few years, I have been working with a number of collaborators all […]
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Recently, I have been involved in a study looking for potential X-ray binaries in the relatively nearby spiral galaxy M83. And we think we found one! Here we refer to a microquasar as either a black hloe or neutron star X-ray binary. This work was led by Prof. Roberto Soria at the University of the
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Today I thought I would discuss results from my recent paper in ApJ (ArXiv link here). This paper presented results from a very long and comprehensive radio monitoring campaign of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1535-571 and included many people within the group. Using observations that I personally took with the Australia Telescope Compact
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Hi all, Over January and February, we had an exchange student, Wanga Mulaudzi from the University of Cape Town, come to Amsterdam to work with us on a new project. This project uses multiwavelength data from an outbursting black hole X-ray binary to model how the jet physics evolved during the outburst. With Wanga, we
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Hi all, Firstly, I hope you all had a great holiday period! Over the Christmas break, I had a paper published in ApJ letters (links at the bottom of the page) that I thought I might summarise here. This paper was focused on the radio emission from a newly discovered X-ray transient called IGR J17591-2342.
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This week we have had an exciting new result published in Nature. This was work led by Jakob van den Eijnden, a PhD student here at in Amsterdam, and included his advisor Nathalie Degenaar, myself, Rudy Wijnands and Juan Hernandez-Santisteban here in Amsterdam, as well as James Miller-Jones (ICRAR/Curtin University, Australia) and Greg Sivakoff (University of
Finding jets in unexpected places Read More »
Hi again, I thought now might be a good time to highlight some of the other work that we get to do (using one of my programs as an example, but almost all of us here at API do something similar, or even better). Work that isn’t sitting at a computer analysing data or writing
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Hi, I am Tom Russell, a Veni Research Fellow working with Sera’s group. My work mainly focuses on radio observations of accreting compact objects (mostly black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries, but even the occasional white dwarf) to see how the outflowing jet evolves over time. I then link the jet evolution to other
