Professor Rob Fender: Publications

An artist's impression of a relativistic jet propagating away from a black hole at close to the speed of light. Such jets are formed by the inner regions of the accretion flow: matter flowing inwards towards the black hole, via processes which are not yet fully understood. The accretion flow emits primarily in X-rays, the relativistic jet in the radio band: by combing observations in each band we can try and understand how such jets form and how much energy they carry away from the black hole.

Monitoring Cygnus X-1 with RXTE

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings Elsevier 132 (2004) 420-423

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J Wilms, K Pottschmidt, MA Nowak, T Gleissner, GG Pooley, R Remillard, R Staubert, WA Heindl, P Uttley, RP Fender

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Radio detections of the neutron star X-ray binaries 4U 1820 − 30 and Ser X-1 in soft X-ray states

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 351:1 (2004) 186-192

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S Migliari, RP Fender, M Rupen, S Wachter, PG Jonker, J Homan, M van der Klis

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GRS 1915+105: The first three months with INTEGRAL

(2004)

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DC Hannikainen, O Vilhu, J Rodriguez, NJ Westergaard, S Shaw, GG Pooley, T Belloni, AA Zdziarski, RW Hunstead, K Wu, S Brandt, A Castro-Tirado, PA Charles, AJ Dean, Ph Durouchoux, RP Fender, P Hakala, CR Kaiser, AR King, N Lund, IF Mirabel, J Poutanen

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Quenched millimetre emission from Cygnus X-1 in a soft X-ray state

(2004)

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SP Tigelaar, RP Fender, RPJ Tilanus, E Gallo, GG Poo ley

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"Soft X-ray transient" outbursts which are not soft

New Astronomy 9:4 (2004) 249-264

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C Brocksopp, RM Bandyopadhyay, RP Fender

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We have accumulated multiwavelength (X-ray, optical, radio) lightcurves for the eight black hole X-ray binaries which have been observed to enter a supposed 'soft X-ray transient' outburst, but remained in the low/hard state throughout the outburst. Comparison of the lightcurve morphologies, spectral behaviour, properties of the quasi-periodic oscillations and the radio jet provides the first study of such objects as a sub-class of X-ray transients. However, rather than assuming that these hard state X-ray transients are different from the 'canonical' soft X-ray transient, we prefer to consider the possibility that new analysis of both soft and hard state X-ray transients in a spectral context will provide a model capable of explaining the outburst mechanisms of (almost) all black hole X-ray binaries. © 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Monitoring Cygnus X-1 with RXTE

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Radio detections of the neutron star X-ray binaries 4U 1820 − 30 and Ser X-1 in soft X-ray states

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GRS 1915+105: The first three months with INTEGRAL

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Quenched millimetre emission from Cygnus X-1 in a soft X-ray state

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"Soft X-ray transient" outbursts which are not soft

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Monitoring Cygnus X-1 with RXTE

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Radio detections of the neutron star X-ray binaries 4U 1820 − 30 and Ser X-1 in soft X-ray states

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GRS 1915+105: The first three months with INTEGRAL

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Quenched millimetre emission from Cygnus X-1 in a soft X-ray state

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"Soft X-ray transient" outbursts which are not soft

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