Browsing by Author "Pike, Sean"

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    • Evolution of the spin, spectrum and super-orbital period of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar M51 ULX7 

      Brightman, Murray; Bachetti, Matteo; Earnshaw, Hannah; Fürst, Felix; Heida, Marianne; Israel, Gian Luca; Pike, Sean; Stern, Daniel; Walton, Dominic J (2022-01-21)
      M51 ULX7 is among a small group of known ultra luminous X-ray pulsars (ULXPs). The neutron star powering the source has a spin period of 2.8 s, orbits its companion star with a period of 2 days, and a super orbital period ...

    • The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): probing accretion onto stellar mass black holes 

      Connors, Riley M. T.; Tomsick, John A.; Draghis, Paul; Coughenour, Benjamin; Shaw, Aarran W.; García, Javier A.; Walton, Dominic; Madsen, Kristin; Stern, Daniel; Rodriguez, Nicole Cavero; Dauser, Thomas; Del Santo, Melania; Jiang, Jiachen; Krawczynski, Henric; Liu, Honghui; Neilsen, Joseph; Nowak, Michael; Pike, Sean; Santangelo, Andrea; Sridhar, Navin; West, Andrew; Wilms, Jörn (2024-01-08)
      Accretion is a universal astrophysical process that plays a key role in cosmic history, from the epoch of reionization to galaxy and stellar formation and evolution. Accreting stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries are ...