Challenging times: a re-analysis of NGC 5408 X-1

MJ Middleton, TP Roberts, C Done…�- Monthly Notices of the�…, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The ultraluminous X-ray source, NGC 5408 X-1, is one of only three such objects to show a
quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in its power spectrum. Previous analysis of this signal …

Bright radio emission from an ultraluminous stellar-mass microquasar in M 31

MJ Middleton, JCA Miller-Jones, S Markoff, R Fender…�- Nature, 2013 - nature.com
… disk–jet coupling studies and in doing so will significantly expand our understanding of …
This research has also made use of data obtained from NASA’s Swift and Chandra satellites…

The missing link: a low-mass X-ray binary in M31 seen as an ultraluminous X-ray source

MJ Middleton, AD Sutton, TP Roberts…�- Monthly Notices of�…, 2012 - academic.oup.com
A new, transient ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) was recently discovered by Chandra in
M31 with a luminosity at ∼5 � 10 39 erg s −1 . Here we analyse a series of five subsequent …

Broad absorption features in wind-dominated ultraluminous X-ray sources?

MJ Middleton, DJ Walton, TP Roberts…�- Monthly Notices of the�…, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… of absorption in the line of sight by an outflowing, optically thin phase of a supercritical wind,
then by making some basic assumptions we can model these features using a table made

A spectral-timing model for ULXs in the supercritical regime

MJ Middleton, L Heil, F Pintore…�- Monthly Notices of�…, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… In the previous subsection, we made predictions for how a source's spectral and variability
properties should appear for a given inclination and how they might change in response to …

The Lense–Thirring timing-accretion plane for ULXs

MJ Middleton, PC Fragile, A Ingram…�- Monthly Notices of the�…, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… uncertainty in this picture which requires general relativistic (radiation) magneto-hydrodynamic
(GR(R)MHD) simulations of the misaligned supercritical flow (which will be performed in …

Diagnosing the accretion flow in ultraluminous X-ray sources using soft X-ray atomic features

…, A Fabian, TP Roberts, L Heil, C Pinto…�- Monthly Notices of�…, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… the ULX regime (Middleton et al. 2013; Middleton, Miller-Jones … erg s −1 ; Sutton, Roberts &
Middleton 2013) are probably … (Middleton et al. 2012; Straub, Done & Middleton 2013). ULXs …

X-ray spectral evolution in the ultraluminous X-ray source M33 X-8

MJ Middleton, AD Sutton…�- Monthly Notices of the�…, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The bright ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX), M33 X-8, has been observed several times by
XMM–Newton, providing us with a rare opportunity to ‘flux bin’ the spectral data and search …

A variable ULX and possible IMBH candidate in M51a

…, GB Lansbury, MJ Middleton…�- Monthly Notices of�…, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… We performed photometry on these objects using the daophot ii/allstar software package (Stetson
1987), a PSF-fitting routine (see Section 3.3), although due to the crowded nature of …

Identifying a new intermediate polar using XMM–Newton and INTEGRAL

MJ Middleton, EM Cackett, C Shaw…�- Monthly Notices of�…, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The bright X-ray source 2XMMi J180438.7−145647 is fortunate to have long baseline
observations in INTEGRAL that complement observations taken by other missions. Optical …