Pulsars, transients and relativistic astrophysics: publications

The radio spectrum of a quiescent stellar mass black hole

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 356:3 (2005) 1017-1021

Authors:

E Gallo, RP Fender, RI Hynes

A refined method for measuring jet speeds

Interacting Binaries: Accretion, Evolution, and Outcomes 797 (2005) 585-588

Authors:

J Miller-Jones, K Blundell, P Duffy

A unified model for black hole X-ray binary jets?

Chapter in Astrophysics and Space Science, Springer Nature (2005) 1-13

Authors:

Rob Fender, Tomaso Belloni, Elena Gallo

Detection of the binary companion to the progenitor of SN 1993J

SPRINGER PROC PHYS 99 (2005) 71-75

Authors:

SJ Smartt, JR Maund, RP Kudritzki, P Podsiadlowski, G Gilmore

Abstract:

We present a detailed late-time photometric and spectroscopic study of SN1993J with HST/ACS and Keck LRIS-B. We find a clear signature of a hot star component in the spectra of SN1993J which cannot be explained by the surrounding faint blue stars. This is the first detection of the expected massive binary companion to the red supergiant progenitor and confirms that SN1993J did indeed arise in an interacting binary system.

Exploring the nature of weak Chandra sources near the Galactic Centre

AIP CONF PROC 797 (2005) 410-415

Authors:

RM Bandyopadhyay, JCA Miller-Jones, KM Blundell, FE Bauer, P Podsiadlowski, QD Wang, S Rappaport, E Pfahl

Abstract:

We present results from the first near-IR imaging of the weak X-ray sources discovered in the Chandra/ACIS-I survey (Wang et al. 2002) towards the. Galactic Centre (GC). These 800 discrete sources, which contribute significantly to the GC X-ray emission, represent an important and previously unknown population within the Galaxy. From our VLT observations we will identify likely IR counterparts to a sample of the hardest sources, which am most likely X-ray binaries, With these data we can place constraints on the nature of the discrete weak X-ray source population of the GC.

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