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IHEP, CAS: Beijing, CN

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Yanjun Xu

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California Institute of Technology: Pasadena, CA, US

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Works (29)

Science objectives of the Einstein Probe mission

arXiv e-prints
2025-01 | Working paper
Contributors: Yuan, Weimin; Dai, Lixin; Feng, Hua; Jin, Chichuan; Jonker, Peter; Kuulkers, Erik; Liu, Yuan; Nandra, Kirpal; O'Brien, Paul; Piro, Luigi et al.
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Einstein Probe discovery of EP240408a: a peculiar X-ray transient with an intermediate timescale

arXiv e-prints
2024-10 | Working paper
Contributors: Zhang, Wenda; Yuan, Weimin; Ling, Zhixing; Chen, Yong; Rea, Nanda; Rau, Arne; Cai, Zhiming; Cheng, Huaqing; Coti Zelati, Francesco; Dai, Lixin et al.
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EP-FXT detection of a new X-ray source EP J005146.9-730930 in the SMC

The Astronomer's Telegram
2024-08 | Research tool
Contributors: Xu, Y. J.; Chen, Y.; Ge, M. Y.; Jia, S. M.; Li, C. K.; Cui, W. W.; Han, D. W.; Zhao, X. F.; Song, L. M.; Zhang, J. et al.
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Pulsed Iron Line Emission from the First Galactic Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Xiao, Y. X.; Xu, Y. J.; Ge, M. Y.; Lu, F. J.; Zhang, S. N.; Zhang, S.; Tao, L.; Qu, J. L.; Wang, P. J.; Kong, L. D. et al.
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Studies on the soft intermediate state X-ray flare of MAXI J1535-571 during its 2017 outburst

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Ma, Ruican; Tao, Lian; Méndez, Mariano; Zhang, Shuang-Nan; Xu, Yanjun; Zhang, Liang; Liu, Hexin; Qu, Jinlu; Song, Liming; Ren, Xiaoqin et al.
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The First Polarimetric View on Quasiperiodic Oscillations in a Black Hole X-Ray Binary

The Astrophysical Journal
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhao, Qing-Chang; Tao, Lian; Li, Han-Cheng; Zhang, Shuang-Nan; Feng, Hua; Ge, Ming-Yu; Ji, Long; Wang, Ya-Nan; Huang, Yue; Ma, Xiang et al.
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Probing the Inner Accretion Flow Properties Around Black Holes with X-ray Observations

Ph.D. Thesis
2021 | Dissertation or Thesis
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun
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NuSTAR Observation of MAXI J1803-298 with Periodic Dips

The Astronomer's Telegram
2021-05 | Research tool
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona
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Evidence for Disk Truncation at Low Accretion States of the Black Hole Binary MAXI J1820+070 Observed by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona A.; Tomsick, John A.; Hare, Jeremy; Fabian, Andrew C.; Walton, Dominic J.
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Studying the Reflection Spectra of the New Black Hole X-Ray Binary Candidate MAXI J1631-479 Observed by NuSTAR: A Variable Broad Iron Line Profile

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona A.; Tomsick, John A.; Walton, Dominic J.; Barret, Didier; García, Javier A.; Hare, Jeremy; Parker, Michael L.
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NuSTAR Observations of the Transient Galactic Black Hole Binary Candidate Swift J1858.6─0814: A New Sibling of V404 Cyg and V4641 Sgr?

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Hare, Jeremy; Tomsick, John A.; Buisson, Douglas J. K.; Clavel, Maïca; Gandhi, Poshak; García, Javier A.; Grefenstette, Brian W.; Walton, Dominic J.; Xu, Yanjun
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Spectral Evolution of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources M82 X-1 and X-2

The Astrophysical Journal
2020-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Brightman, Murray; Walton, Dominic J.; Xu, Yanjun; Earnshaw, Hannah P.; Harrison, Fiona A.; Stern, Daniel; Barret, Didier
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A NuSTAR Observation of MAXI J0637-430: A New X-ray Transient and Likely Black Hole X-ray Binary

The Astronomer's Telegram
2019-11 | Research tool
Contributors: Tomsick, John A.; Garcia, Javier; Fabian, Andy; Walton, Dom; Jiang, Jiachen; Fuerst, Felix; Buisson, Douglas; Shaw, Aarran; Hare, Jeremy; Bachetti, Matteo et al.
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The 2017 Failed Outburst of GX 339-4: Relativistic X-Ray Reflection near the Black Hole Revealed by NuSTAR and Swift Spectroscopy

The Astrophysical Journal
2019-11 | Journal article
Contributors: García, Javier A.; Tomsick, John A.; Sridhar, Navin; Grinberg, Victoria; Connors, Riley M. T.; Wang, Jingyi; Steiner, James F.; Dauser, Thomas; Walton, Dominic J.; Xu, Yanjun et al.
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Rebrightening of MAXI J1820+070 (ASASSN-18ey) in X-rays

The Astronomer's Telegram
2019-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona; Tomsick, John
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Broadband X-Ray Spectral and Timing Analyses of the Black Hole Binary Candidate Swift J1658.2─4242: Rapid Flux Variation and the Turn-on of a Transient QPO

The Astrophysical Journal
2019-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona A.; Tomsick, John A.; Barret, Didier; Gandhi, Poshak; García, Javier A.; Miller, Jon M.; Uttley, Phil; Walton, Dominic J.
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A ̃60 day Super-orbital Period Originating from the Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsar in M82

The Astrophysical Journal
2019-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Brightman, Murray; Harrison, Fiona A.; Bachetti, Matteo; Xu, Yanjun; Fürst, Felix; Walton, Dominic J.; Ptak, Andrew; Yukita, Mihoko; Zezas, Andreas
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The New Black Hole Binary Candidate Swift J1658.2-4242 Observed by NuSTAR, Swift and XMM-Newton

AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division
2019-03 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona; Tomsick, John; Kennea, Jamie; Walton, Dom; Miller, Jon; Barret, Didier; Fabian, Andrew; Forster, Karl; Fuerst, Felix et al.
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MAXI J1631-479 is a new X-ray transient

The Astronomer's Telegram
2018-12 | Research tool
Contributors: Miyasaka, Hiromasa; Tomsick, John A.; Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona A.
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The Hard State of the Highly Absorbed High Inclination Black Hole Binary Candidate Swift J1658.2─4242 Observed by NuSTAR and Swift

The Astrophysical Journal
2018-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona A.; Kennea, Jamie A.; Walton, Dominic J.; Tomsick, John A.; Miller, Jon M.; Barret, Didier; Fabian, Andrew C.; Forster, Karl; Fürst, Felix et al.
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NuSTAR observation of Swift J1658.2-4242

The Astronomer's Telegram
2018-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Y.; Kennea, J. A.; Harrison, F. A.; Forster, K.
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Reflection Spectra of the Black Hole Binary Candidate MAXI J1535-571 in the Hard State Observed by NuSTAR

The Astrophysical Journal
2018-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona A.; García, Javier A.; Fabian, Andrew C.; Fürst, Felix; Gandhi, Poshak; Grefenstette, Brian W.; Madsen, Kristin K.; Miller, Jon M.; Parker, Michael L. et al.
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Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

Science
2017-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Kasliwal, M. M.; Nakar, E.; Singer, L. P.; Kaplan, D. L.; Cook, D. O.; Van Sistine, A.; Lau, R. M.; Fremling, C.; Gottlieb, O.; Jencson, J. E. et al.
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Spectral and Timing Properties of IGR J17091-3624 in the Rising Hard State During Its 2016 Outburst

The Astrophysical Journal
2017-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; García, Javier A.; Fürst, Felix; Harrison, Fiona A.; Walton, Dominic J.; Tomsick, John A.; Bachetti, Matteo; King, Ashley L.; Madsen, Kristin K.; Miller, Jon M. et al.
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Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova

Science
2017-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Evans, P. A.; Cenko, S. B.; Kennea, J. A.; Emery, S. W. K.; Kuin, N. P. M.; Korobkin, O.; Wollaeger, R. T.; Fryer, C. L.; Madsen, K. K.; Harrison, F. A. et al.
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Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger

The Astrophysical Journal
2017-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B. et al.
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Spectral and Timing Properties of IGR J17091-3624 in the Rising Hard State During Its 2016 Outburst

AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division #16
2017-08 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Harrison, Fiona; Fuerst, Felix; Garcia, Javier; Walton, Dom; Tomsick, John
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Evidence for Relativistic Disk Reflection in the Seyfert 1h Galaxy/ULIRG IRAS 05189-2524 Observed by NuSTAR and XMM-Newton

2017-03 | Journal article
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Contributors: Xu, Yanjun; Baloković, Mislav; Walton, Dominic J.; Harrison, Fiona A.; García, Javier A.; Koss, Michael J.
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Detection and localization of continuous gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays: the role of pulsar terms

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
2016-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Zhu, X. -J.; Wen, L.; Xiong, J.; Xu, Y.; Wang, Y.; Mohanty, S. D.; Hobbs, G.; Manchester, R. N.
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