«A Microquasar Odyssey: Unveiling the Complexities»

A NICER view of accretion onto Black Hole X-ray binaries

Not scheduled

15m

Palazzo Municipale - Sala delle Capriate (Cefalù (Palermo))

Talk Talk Timing properties (Observations, modelling)

Speaker

Diego Altamirano (University of Southampton)

Description

Black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) are key laboratories for studying accretion physics, relativistic jets, and strong gravity. Since its launch in 2017, NASA’s Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has provided unprecedented X-ray timing and spectral data, enabling new insights into accretion phenomenology and the physics behind. In this talk, I will review what we have learned about BHXBs from NICER observations in recent years, highlighting key discoveries related to quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOS) and their link to relativistic jets. I will also summarize NICER major contributions to multi-wavelength campaigns.