The Hard Truth about Some "Soft" X-ray Transients
(2002)
Abstract:
We have accumulated multiwavelength lightcurves for eight black hole X-ray binaries which have been observed to enter a supposed ``soft X-ray transient'' outburst, but which in fact remained in the low/hard state throughout the outburst. Comparison of the lightcurve morphologies, spectral behaviour, properties of the QPOs and the radio jet provides the first study of such objects as a subclass of X-ray transients (XRTs). However, rather than assuming that these hard state XRTs are different from ``canonical'' soft XRTs, we prefer to consider the possibility that a new analysis of both soft and hard state XRTs in a spectral context will provide a model capable of explaining the outburst mechanisms for the majority of black hole X-ray binaries.Relativistic Outflows from X-ray Binaries (‘Microquasars’)
Chapter in Relativistic Flows in Astrophysics, Springer Nature 589 (2002) 101-122
The Power of Jets: New Clues from Radio Circular Polarization and X-Rays
Chapter in Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and Their Use for Cosmology, Springer Nature (2002) 428-435
Initial low/hard state, multiple jet ejections and X-ray/radio correlations during the outburst of XTE J1859+226
(2001)