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Structure and evolution of ultra-luminous astrophysical X-ray sources

2015/19/B/ST9/01099

Keywords:

Accretion accretion discs binary systems black holes neutron stars X-ray astronomy

Descriptors:

  • ST9_12: Relativistic astrophysics
  • ST9_11: High energy and particle astrophysics: X-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays, neutrinos
  • ST9_7: Stars and stellar systems

Panel:

ST9 - Astronomy and space science: astrophysics, astrochemistry, astrobiology, solar system, planetary systems, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy, space science, instrumentation

Host institution :

Centrum Astronomiczne im. Mikołaja Kopernika Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. mazowieckie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Jean-Pierre Lasota-Hirszowicz 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 5

Call: OPUS 10 - announced on 2015-09-15

Amount awarded: 678 800 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-06-28

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2019-12-27

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Desktop (5 000 PLN)
  2. Dekstop (10 000 PLN)
  3. Laptop (8 600 PLN)
  4. Laptop (2 406 PLN)
  5. Laptop (5 800 PLN)

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (38)
  1. Advanced LIGO Constraints on Neutron Star Mergers and r-process Sites
    Authors:
    Côté, Benoit; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Fryer, Chris L.; Ritter, Christian; Paul, Adam; Wehmeyer, Benjamin; O'Shea, Brian W.
    Academic press:
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume , Issue 2, article id. , 20 (rok: 2017, tom: 836, strony: 230-250), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aa5c8d - link to the publication
  2. Collisions of Neutron Stars with Primordial Black Holes as Fast Radio Bursts Engines
    Authors:
    Abramowicz, Marek A.; Bejger, Michał; Wielgus, Maciek
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2018, tom: 868, strony: 17-24), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aae64a - link to the publication
  3. Constraints on the Formation of Double Neutron Stars from the Observed Eccentricities and Current Limits on Merger Rates
    Authors:
    Chruslinska, M.; Belczynski, K.; Bulik, T.; Gladysz, W.
    Academic press:
    Acta Astronomica (rok: 2017, tom: 67, strony: 37-50), Wydawca: Komitet Astronomii PAN.
    Status:
    Published
  4. Curvature dependence of relativistic epicyclic frequencies in static, axially symmetric spacetimes
    Authors:
    Vieira, Ronaldo S. S.; Kluźniak, Włodek; Abramowicz, Marek
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2017, tom: 95, strony: 44008), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.95.044008 - link to the publication
  5. Dynamical formation of black hole low-mass X-ray binaries in the field: an alternative to the common envelope
    Authors:
    Klencki, Jakub; Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Gładysz, Wojciech; Belczynski, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2017, tom: 469, strony: 3088-3101), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stx842 - link to the publication
  6. Outbursts in ultracompact X-ray binaries
    Authors:
    Hameury, J.-M.; Lasota, J.-P.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2016, tom: 594, strony: 87-96), Wydawca: EOP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201628434 - link to the publication
  7. Puffy Accretion Disks: Sub-Eddington, Optically Thick, and Stable
    Authors:
    Lančová, Debora; Abarca, David; Kluźniak, Włodek; Wielgus, Maciek; Saḑowski, Aleksander; Narayan, Ramesh; Schee, Jan; Török, Gabriel; Abramowicz, Marek
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal Letters (rok: 2019, tom: 884, strony: L37), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/2041-8213/ab48f5 - link to the publication
  8. Pulsing ULXs: tip of the iceberg?
    Authors:
    King, Andrew; Lasota, Jean-Pierre; Kluźniak, Włodek
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters (rok: 2017, tom: 468, strony: L59-L62), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnrasl/slx020 - link to the publication
  9. Spin orientations of merging black holes formed from the evolution of stellar binaries
    Authors:
    Gerosa, Davide; Berti, Emanuele; O'Shaughnessy, Richard; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Kesden, Michael; Wysocki, Daniel; Gladysz, Wojciech
    Academic press:
    Spin orientations of merging black holes formed from the evolution of stellar binaries (rok: 2018, tom: 98, strony: 084036 1-21), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.98.084036 - link to the publication
  10. Strong disk winds traced throughout outbursts s in black-hole X-ray binaries
    Authors:
    Tetarenko, B. E.; Lasota, J.-P.;Heinke, C. O.; Dubus, G.; Sivakoff, G. R.
    Academic press:
    Nature (rok: 2018, tom: 554, strony: 69-72), Wydawca: Macmillan Publishers Limited
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/nature25159 - link to the publication
  11. Wind Roche lobe overflow as a way to make Type Ia supernovae from the widest symbiotic systems
    Authors:
    Iłkiewicz, Krystian; Mikołajewska, Joanna; Belczyński, Krzysztof; Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Karczmarek, Paulina
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2019, tom: 485, strony: 5468), Wydawca: OxforfdUniversity Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stz760 - link to the publication
  12. Bright Mini-outburst Ends the 12 yr Long Activity of the Black Hole Candidate Swift J1753.5-0127
    Authors:
    Zhang, G. -B.; Bernardini, F.; Russell, D. M.; Gelfand, J. D.; Lasota, J. -P.; Qasim, A. Al; AlMannaei, A.; Koljonen, K. I. I.; Shaw, A. W.; Lewis, F.; Tomsick, J. A.; Plotkin, R. M.; Miller-Jones, J. C. A.; Maitra, D.; Homan, J.; Charles, P. A.; Kobel, P.; Perez, D.; Doran, R.
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2019, tom: 876, strony: 5), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ab12dd - link to the publication
  13. Dwarf nova outbursts in intermediate polars
    Authors:
    Hameury, J.-M.; Lasota, J.-P.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2017, tom: 602, strony: 102-110), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201730760 - link to the publication
  14. Multi-wavelength torus-jet model for Sagittarius A*
    Authors:
    Vincent, F. H.; Abramowicz, M. A.; Zdziarski, A. A.; Wielgus, M.; Paumard, T.; Perrin, G.; Straub, O.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2019, tom: 624, strony: A52), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201834946 - link to the publication
  15. Multiband gravitational-wave event rates and stellar physics
    Authors:
    Gerosa, Davide; Ma, Sizheng; Wong, Kaze W. K.; Berti, Emanuele; O'Shaughnessy, Richard; Chen, Yanbei; Belczynski, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Physical Review D (rok: 2019, tom: 99, strony: 103004), Wydawca: American Physical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1103/PhysRevD.99.103004 - link to the publication
  16. No magnetars in ULXs
    Authors:
    King, Andrew; Lasota, Jean-Pierre
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2019, tom: 485, strony: 3588), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stz720 - link to the publication
  17. Pulsing and Non Pulsing ULXs: the Iceberg Emerges
    Authors:
    King Andrew, Lasota Jean-Pierre
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2020, tom: 494, strony: 3611-3615), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/staa930 - link to the publication
  18. Black hole binaries dynamically formed in globular clusters
    Authors:
    Park, Dawoo; Kim, Chunglee; Lee, Hyung Mok; Bae, Yeong-Bok; Belczynski, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2017, tom: 469, strony: 4665-4674), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stx1015 - link to the publication
  19. On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars
    Authors:
    Vigna-Gómez, Alejandro; Neijssel, Coenraad J.; Stevenson, Simon; Barrett, Jim W.; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Justham, Stephen; de Mink, Selma E.; Müller, Bernhard; Podsiadlowski, Philipp; Renzo, Mathieu; Szécsi, Dorottya; Mandel, Ilya
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2018, tom: 481, strony: 4009-4029), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/sty2463 - link to the publication
  20. On the likelihood of detecting gravitational waves from Population III compact object binaries
    Authors:
    Belczynski, Krzysztof; Ryu, Taeho; Perna, Rosalba; Berti, Emanuele; Tanaka, Takamitsu L.; Bulik, Tomasz
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2017, tom: 471, strony: 4702-4721), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stx1759 - link to the publication
  21. Optical precursors to X-ray binary outbursts
    Authors:
    Russell, David M.; Bramich, Daniel M.; Lewis, Fraser; AlMannaei, Aisha; Al Qaissieh, Thabet; Al Qasim, Ahlam; Al Yazeedi, Aisha; Baglio, Maria Cristina; Bernardini, Federico; Elgalad, Nour; Gabuya, Aldrin; Lasota, Jean-Pierre; Palado, Alejandro; Roche, Paul; Shivkumar, Hinna; Udrescu, Silviu-Marian; Zhang, Guobao
    Academic press:
    Astronomical Notes/Astronomisch Nachrichten (rok: 2019, tom: 340, strony: 278), Wydawca: WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/asna.201913610 - link to the publication
  22. Stellar binaries that survive supernovae
    Authors:
    Kochanek, C. S.; Auchettl, K.; Belczynski, K.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2019, tom: 485, strony: 5394), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stz717 - link to the publication
  23. The Origin of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources
    Authors:
    Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Sobolewska, Małgorzata; Lasota, Jean-Pierre; Belczynski, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2017, tom: 846, strony: 17-37), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aa821d - link to the publication
  24. The influence of the distribution of cosmic star formation at different metallicities on the properties of merging double compact objects
    Authors:
    Chruslinska, Martyna; Nelemans, Gijs; Belczynski, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2019, tom: 482, strony: 5012–5017), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/sty3087 - link to the publication
  25. Disc instabilities and nova eruptions in symbiotic systems: RS Ophiuchi and Z Andromedae
    Authors:
    Bollimpalli, D. A.; Hameury, J.-M.; Lasota, J.-P.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2018, tom: 481, strony: 5422-5435), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/sty2555 - link to the publication
  26. Dwarf nova outbursts with magnetorotational turbulence
    Authors:
    Coleman, M. S. B.; Kotko, I.; Blaes, O.; Lasota, J.-P.; Hirose, S.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2016, tom: 462, strony: 3710-3726), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stw1908 - link to the publication
  27. Hystereses in dwarf nova outbursts and low-mass X-ray binaries
    Authors:
    Hameury, J.-M.; Lasota, J.-P.; Knigge, C.; Körding, E. G.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2017, tom: 600, strony: 95-102), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201629953 - link to the publication
  28. The disappearance and reformation of the accretion disc during a low state of FO Aquarii
    Authors:
    Hameury, J.-M.; Lasota, J.-P.
    Academic press:
    Astrononmy and Astrophysics (rok: 2017, tom: 606, strony: 45456), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201731226 - link to the publication
  29. The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black-hole mergers
    Authors:
    Belczynski, K.; Heger, A.; Gladysz, W.; Ruiter, A. J.; Woosley, S.; Wiktorowicz, G.; Chen, H.-Y.; Bulik, T.; O'Shaughnessy, R.; Holz, D. E.; Fryer, C. L.; Berti, E.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 594, id.A97, 10 (rok: 2016, tom: 594, strony: 97-107), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201628980 - link to the publication
  30. Understanding X-ray irradiation in low-mass X-ray binaries directly from their light-curves
    Authors:
    Tetarenko, B. E.; Dubus, G.; Lasota, J.-P.; Heinke, C. O.; Sivakoff, G. R.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2018, tom: 480, strony: 45338), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/sty1798 - link to the publication
  31. A wide star-black-hole binary system from radial-velocity measurements
    Authors:
    Liu, Jifeng; Zhang, Haotong; Howard, Andrew W.; Bai, Zhongrui; Lu, Youjun; Soria, Roberto; Justham, Stephen; Li, Xiangdong; Zheng, Zheng; Wang, Tinggui; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Casares, Jorge; Zhang, Wei; Yuan, Hailong; Dong, Yiqiao; Lei, Yajuan; Isaacson, Howard; Wang, Song; Bai, Yu; Shao, Yong
    Academic press:
    Nature (rok: 2019, tom: 575, strony: 618), Wydawca: Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41586-019-1766-2 - link to the publication
  32. Impact of inter-correlated initial binary parameters on double black hole and neutron star mergers
    Authors:
    Klencki, J.; Moe, M.; Gladysz, W.; Chruslinska, M.; Holz, D. E.; Belczynski, K.
    Academic press:
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (rok: 2018, tom: 619, strony: A77-96), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201833025 - link to the publication
  33. Nucleosynthetic yields from neutron stars accreting in binary common envelopes
    Authors:
    Keegans, J.; Fryer, C. L.; Jones, S. W.; Côté, B.; Belczynski, K.; Herwig, F.; Pignatari, M.; Laird, A. M.; Diget, C. Aa
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2019, tom: 485, strony: 620-639), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stz368 - link to the publication
  34. Stability of mass transfer from massive giants: double black hole binary formation and ultraluminous X-ray sources
    Authors:
    Pavlovskii, K.; Ivanova, N.; Belczynski, K.; Van, K. X.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2017, tom: 465, strony: 2092-2100), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stw2786 - link to the publication
  35. Testing the disk instability model of cataclysmic variables
    Authors:
    Dubus, Guillaume; Otulakowska-Hypka, Magdalena; Lasota, Jean-Pierre
    Academic press:
    Astronomy and Astrophysics (rok: 2018, tom: 617, strony: 26-40), Wydawca: EDP Sciences
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1051/0004-6361/201833372 - link to the publication
  36. The Origin of r-process Elements in the Milky Way
    Authors:
    Côté, Benoit; Fryer, Chris L.; Belczynski, Krzysztof; Korobkin, Oleg; Chruślińska, Martyna; Vassh, Nicole; Mumpower, Matthew R.; Lippuner, Jonas; Sprouse, Trevor M.; Surman, Rebecca; Wollaeger, Ryan
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2018, tom: 855, strony: 99-118), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/aaad67 - link to the publication
  37. The connection between merging double compact objects and the ultraluminous X-ray sources
    Authors:
    Mondal, Samaresh; Belczyński, Krzysztof; Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Lasota, Jean-Pierre; King, Andrew R.
    Academic press:
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (rok: 2020, tom: 491, strony: 2747), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/mnras/stz3227 - link to the publication
  38. The observed vs total population of ULXs
    Authors:
    Wiktorowicz, Grzegorz; Lasota, Jean-Pierre; Middleton, Matthew; Belczynski, Krzysztof
    Academic press:
    Astrophysical Journal (rok: 2019, tom: 875, strony: 53), Wydawca: IOP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3847/1538-4357/ab0f27 - link to the publication