Timing Properties of New Black Hole Transients
Abstract
The light curves of black hole X-ray binaries show variability on timescales from milliseconds to months. The shorter (sub-second) variability is particularly interesting because it probes the inner region of the accretion disk around compact object. Many exciting black hole transients have gone into outburst in the past year, and from them we have seen the timing signatures of broadband (or band-limited) noise and quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in soft and hard X-ray bands. In this talk, I will discuss and compare timing observations of new transients such as MAXI J1535-571, Swift J1658.2-42, MAXI J1727-203, MAXI J1631-471, Swift J1728.9-3613, and MAXI J1348-630, and recent outbursts of known transients like GX 339-4 and 4U 1630-47.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019HEAD...1730402S