An interstellar mission to test astrophysical black holes

Authors: Bambi, Cosimo

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Physics - Popular Physics, Physics - Space Physics

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14576

Impact of the returning radiation on X-ray reflection spectroscopy measurements: the case of Galactic black holes

Authors: Huang, Kexin, Liu, Honghui, Bambi, Cosimo, Garcia, Javier A., Zhang, Zuobin

Source: Phys. Rev. D 111, 063025 (2025)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11212

Quasi-normal modes of slowly-rotating Johannsen black holes

Authors: Guo, Yuhao, Shashank, Swarnim, Bambi, Cosimo

Source: Eur. Phys. J. C (2025) 85:425

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08205

NICER Spectral and Timing Analysis of 4U 1630$-$47 and its Heartbeat State

Authors: Fan, Ningyue, Steiner, James F., Bambi, Cosimo, Kara, Erin, Zhang, Yuexin, König, Ole

Source: Astrophys.J. 984: 31 (2025)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07621

About the accuracy of the relxill/relxill_nk models in view of the next generation of X-ray missions

Authors: Liu, Honghui, Abdikamalov, Askar B., Mirzaev, Temurbek, Bambi, Cosimo, Dauser, Thomas, Garcia, Javier A., Zhang, Zuobin

Source: Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. 536, 2594-2602 (2025)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00349

Towards a new generation of reflection models for precision measurements of accreting black holes

Authors: Bambi, Cosimo

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02251

Gravitational Wave Astronomy With TianQin

Authors: Li, En-Kun, Liu, Shuai, Torres-Orjuela, Alejandro, Chen, Xian, Inayoshi, Kohei, Wang, Long, Hu, Yi-Ming, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Askar, Abbas, Bambi, Cosimo, Capelo, Pedro R., Chen, Hong-Yu, Chua, Alvin J. K., Condés-Breña, Enrique, Dai, Lixin, Das, Debtroy, Derdzinski, Andrea, Fan, Hui-Min, Fujii, Michiko, Gao, Jie, Garg, Mudit, Ge, Hongwei, Giersz, Mirek, Huang, Shun-Jia, Hypki, Arkadiusz, Liang, Zheng-Cheng, Liu, Bin, Liu, Dongdong, Liu, Miaoxin, Liu, Yunqi, Mayer, Lucio, Napolitano, Nicola R., Peng, Peng, Shao, Yong, Shashank, Swarnim, Shen, Rongfeng, Tagawa, Hiromichi, Tanikawa, Ataru, Toscani, Martina, Vázquez-Aceves, Verónica, Wang, Hai-Tian, Wang, Han, Yi, Shu-Xu, Zhang, Jian-dong, Zhang, Xue-Ting, Zhu, Lianggui, Zwick, Lorenz, Huang, Song, Mei, Jianwei, Wang, Yan, Xie, Yi, Zhang, Jiajun, Luo, Jun

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19665

Black hole X-ray spectra: notes on the relativistic calculations

Authors: Bambi, Cosimo

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12262

Observed jet power and radiative efficiency of black hole candidates in Kerr + PFDM model

Authors: Narzilloev, Bakhtiyor, Abdujabbarov, Ahmadjon, Ahmedov, Bobomurat, Bambi, Cosimo

Source: Eur. Phys. J. C (2024) 84:909

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05576

Modeling reflection spectra of super-Eddington X-ray sources

Authors: Shashank, Swarnim, Liu, Honghui, Abdikamalov, Askar B., Jiang, Jiachen, Bambi, Cosimo, Baker, Fergus, Young, Andrew

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12890

Testing the Kerr nature with binary black hole inspirals

Authors: Shashank, Swarnim, Bambi, Cosimo, Roy, Rittick

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13798

Non-Kerr Constraints using Binary Black Hole inspirals considering phase modifications up to 4 PN order

Authors: Das, Debtroy, Shashank, Swarnim, Bambi, Cosimo

Source: Eur. Phys. J. C (2024) 84:1237

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03846

X-ray spectra of black hole X-ray binaries with returning radiation

Authors: Mirzaev, Temurbek, Bambi, Cosimo, Abdikamalov, Askar B., Jiang, Jiachen, Liu, Honghui, Riaz, Shafqat, Shashank, Swarnim

Source: Astrophys.J. 976: 229 (2024)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01226

Numerical parameterization of stationary axisymmetric black holes in a theory agnostic framework

Authors: Mukazhanov, Olzhas, Roy, Rittick, Mirzaev, Temurbek, Bambi, Cosimo

Source: Phys. Rev. D 110, 024060 (2024)

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17055

The 2018 outburst of MAXI J1820+070 as seen by Insight-HXMT

Authors: Fan, Ningyue, Li, Songyu, Zhan, Rui, Liu, Honghui, Zhang, Zuobin, Bambi, Cosimo, Ji, Long, Ma, Xiang, Steiner, James F., Zhang, Shuang-Nan, Zhou, Menglei

Source: Astrophys.J. 969: 61 (2024)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12161

Impact of reflection Comptonization on X-ray reflection spectroscopy: the case of EXO 1846-031

Authors: Li, Songcheng, Liu, Honghui, Bambi, Cosimo, Steiner, James F., Zhang, Zuobin

Source: Phys. Rev. D 110, 043021 (2024)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06893

Variable ionized disk wind in MAXI J1803-298 revealed by NICER

Authors: Zhang, Zuobin, Bambi, Cosimo, Liu, Honghui, Jiang, Jiachen, Shi, Fangzheng, Zhang, Yuexin, Young, Andrew J., Tomsick, John A., Coughenour, Benjamin M., Zhou, Menglei

Source: Astrophys.J. 975: 22 (2024)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10315

Towards more accurate synthetic reflection spectra: improving the calculations of returning radiation

Authors: Mirzaev, Temurbek, Riaz, Shafqat, Abdikamalov, Askar B., Bambi, Cosimo, Dauser, Thomas, Garcia, Javier A., Jiang, Jiachen, Liu, Honghui, Shashank, Swarnim

Source: Astrophys.J. 965: 66 (2024)

Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05582

Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data

Authors: Bambi, Cosimo

Source: Physics of Particles and Nuclei 55, 1420-1425 (2024)

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05857

About the ability of agnostic X-ray tests of the Kerr Hypothesis to discover new physics

Authors: Zhao, Shuaitongze, Riaz, Shafqat, Bambi, Cosimo

Source: Phys. Rev. D 109, 064059 (2024)

Subject Terms: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18962