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Lensing of space time around a black hole. At Oxford we study black holes observationally and theoretically on all size and time scales - it is some of our core work.

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Rethinking the 67 Hz QPO in GRS 1915+105: Type C quasi-periodic oscillations at the innermost stable circular orbit

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 684 (2024) a209

Authors:

SE Motta, TM Belloni
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A possible third body in the X-ray system GRS 1747−312 and models with higher order multiplicity

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 529:1 (2024) 245-274

Authors:

Caleb Painter, Rosanne Di Stefano, Vinay L Kashyap, Roberto Soria, Jose Lopez-Miralles, Ryan Urquhart, James F Steiner, Sara Motta, Darin Ragozzine, Hideyuki Mori
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Highly Significant Detection of X-Ray Polarization from the Brightest Accreting Neutron Star Sco X-1

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 960:2 (2024) l11

Authors:

Fabio La Monaca, Alessandro Di Marco, Juri Poutanen, Matteo Bachetti, Sara Elisa Motta, Alessandro Papitto, Maura Pilia, Fei Xie, Stefano Bianchi, Anna Bobrikova, Enrico Costa, Wei Deng, Ming-Yu Ge, Giulia Illiano, Shu-Mei Jia, Henric Krawczynski, Eleonora Veronica Lai, Kuan Liu, Guglielmo Mastroserio, Fabio Muleri, John Rankin, Paolo Soffitta, Alexandra Veledina, Filippo Ambrosino, Melania Del Santo, Wei Chen, Javier A Garcia, Philip Kaaret, Thomas D Russell, Wen-Hao Wei, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Chao Zuo, Zaven Arzoumanian, Massimo Cocchi, Andrea Gnarini, Ruben Farinelli, Keith Gendreau, Francesco Ursini, Martin C Weisskopf, Silvia Zane, Iván Agudo, Lucio A Antonelli, Luca Baldini, Wayne H Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephen D Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Niccolò Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chien-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Niccolò Di Lalla, Immacolata Donnarumma, Victor Doroshenko, Michal Dovčiak, Steven R Ehlert, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Wataru Iwakiri, Svetlana G Jorstad, Vladimir Karas, Fabian Kislat, Takao Kitaguchi, Jeffery J Kolodziejczak, Luca Latronico, Ioannis Liodakis, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Frédéric Marin, Andrea Marinucci, Alan P Marscher, Herman L Marshall, Francesco Massaro, Giorgio Matt, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Michela Negro, Chi-Yung Ng, Stephen L O’Dell, Nicola Omodei, Chiara Oppedisano, George G Pavlov, Abel L Peirson, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Andrea Possenti, Simonetta Puccetti, Brian D Ramsey, Ajay Ratheesh, Oliver J Roberts, Roger W Romani, Carmelo Sgrò, Patrick Slane, Gloria Spandre, Douglas A Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Allyn F Tennant, Nicholas E Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey S Tsygankov, Roberto Turolla, Jacco Vink, Kinwah Wu
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Fast infrared winds during the radio-loud and X-ray obscured stages of the black hole transient GRS 1915+105

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 680 (2023) l16

Authors:

J Sánchez-Sierras, T Muñoz-Darias, SE Motta, RP Fender, A Bahramian, C Martínez-Sebastián, JA Fernández-Ontiveros, J Casares, M Armas Padilla, DA Green, D Mata Sánchez, J Strader, MAP Torres
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A systematic study of the high-frequency bump in the black-hole low-mass X-ray binary GX 339 − 4

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 527:3 (2023) 5638-5648

Authors:

Yuexin Zhang, Mariano Méndez, Sara E Motta, Andrzej A Zdziarski, Grégoire Marcel, Federico García, Diego Altamirano, Tomaso M Belloni, Liang Zhang, Thimo Timmermans, Guobao Zhang
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