accretion processes: accretion disks, disk winds and outflows

X-ray binaries: black-hole candidates, LMXBs and HMXBs

X-ray sources in other galaxies (eg, M31, M83)

stellar population in galaxies

active galactic nuclei

gravitation & relativity

history of physics

Kinwah Wu (thesis supervisor)

Title & Abstract

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Appendix

Bibliography

Jeremy Mould (NOAO Director)

Papers in Refereed Journals:

Detection of the Tip of the Red Giant Branch in NGC 5128,
Soria, R., Mould, J. R., Watson, A. M., et al. 1996, ApJ, 465, 79



Effects of Magnetized Winds on Advective Disks,
Soria, R., Li, J., & Wickramasinghe, D. T. 1997, ApJ, 487, 769



Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole in GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Wickramasinghe, D. T., Hunstead, R. W., & Wu, K. 1998, ApJ, 495, L95



Optical Counterpart of the X-ray Transient RX J0117.6-7330: Spectroscopy and Photometry,
Soria, R. 1999, PASA, 16, 147



A Study of the New X-ray Transient RXTE J2123-058 during its Post-Outburst State,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Galloway, D. 1999, MNRAS, 309, 528



Optical Spectroscopy of GX339-4 during the High-Soft and Low-Hard States: I,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Johnston, H. M. 1999, MNRAS, 310, 71



Optical Spectroscopy of GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Hunstead, R. W. 2000, ApJ, 539, 445



Optical Spectroscopy of GX339-4 during the High-Soft and Low-Hard States: II: Line Ionisation and Emission Region,
Wu, K., Soria, R., Hunstead, R. W., & Johnston, H. M. 2001, MNRAS, 320, 177



XMM-Newton Optical Monitor Observations of LMC X-3,
Soria, R., Wu., K., Page, M., & Sakelliou, I. 2001, A&A, 365, L273



XMM-Newton EPIC and RGS Observations of LMC X-3,
Wu, K., Soria, R., Page, M., Sakelliou, I., Kahn, S. M., & de Vries, C. P. 2001, A&A, 365, L267



The Central Region of M31 observed with XMM-Newton (I),
Shirey, R., Soria, R., Borozdin, K., Osborne, J. P., et al., 2001, A&A, 365, L195



The central region of M31 observed with XMM-Newton (II),
Osborne, J. P., Borozdin, K. N., Trudolyubov, S. P., Priedhorsky, W. C., Soria, R., Shirey, R., et al., 2001, A&A, 378, 800



An irradiated accretion disk in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 RE J1034+396?,
Soria, R., Puchnarewicz, E. M. 2002, MNRAS, 329, 456



The 1998 Outburst of XTE J1550-564: a Model based on Multiwavelength Observations,
Wu, K., Soria, R., Campbell-Wilson, D., Hannikainen, D. C., Harmon, A.,
Hunstead, R. W., Johnston, H. M., McCollough, M., & McIntyre, V. 2002, ApJ, 565, 1161



X-ray sources in the starburst spiral galaxy M83: nuclear region and discrete source population,
Soria, R., & Wu, K. 2002, A&A, in press (astro-ph/0201059)

Conference Papers:

A Gravitational Kaleidoscope,
Soria, R., & de Felice, F. 1999, Proceedings of the 8th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (Israel 1997), eds. Piran S. and Ruffini R., World Scientific, 413



Spectroscopic Observations of the Black Hole Candidate GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Hunstead, R. W., Wickramasinghe, D. T. & Wu, K. 1997, Proceedings of the 13th North American Workshop on Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects, ASP Conference Series, 137, 455



Optical Lines from the Black-Hole Binary GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R. 1998, PASA, 15, 242



GRO J1655-40: Measuring the Mass of the Black Hole from its Optical Emission Lines,
Soria, R., Wickramasinghe, D. T., Hunstead, R. W., & Wu, K. 1998, AIP Conference Proceedings, 431, 335



High-Resolution Spectroscopy of GRO J1655-40,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Hunstead, R. W. 2000, 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics & Cosmology (held in Paris, Dec 14--18, 1998), eds J. Paul, T. Montmerle & E. Aubourg (CEA: Saclay; Proceedings on CD-Rom)



Optical Study of GX339-4,
Soria, R., Wu, K., & Johnston, H. M. 2000, 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics & Cosmology (held in Paris, Dec 14--18, 1998), eds J. Paul, T. Montmerle & E. Aubourg (CEA: Saclay; Proceedings on CD-Rom)



Formation of optical lines in black-hole binaries,
Wu, K., Soria, R., Johnston, H. M., & Hunstead, R. W. 2001, proceedings of the IX Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (Rome, July 2000)



The optical emission lines as a probe of state transitions in black-hole candidates,
Soria, R. 2001, Proceedings of the 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (Rome 2000), ed. Ruffini R., World Scientific, in press



Radio Emission from the X-ray transient XTE J1550-564,
Hannikainen, D., Wu, K., Campbell-Wilson, D., Hunstead, R., Lovell, J., McIntyre, V., Reynolds, J., Soria, R., & Tzioumis, T. 2001, Proceedings of the 4th INTEGRAL Workshop (Alicante 2000), to be published in ESA-SP (2001)



Low and High Angular Momentum Accretion Flows in BHCs: Case Study of XTE J1550-564
Soria, R., Wu, K., Hannikainen, D. C., McCollough, M., Hunstead, R. W. 2001, to appear in the proceedings of the JHU/LHEA Workshop: "X-ray Emission from Accretion onto Black Holes" (Baltimore, June 2001)



X-ray state transitions in the BHC LMC X-3,
Page, M., Soria, R., & Wu, K. 2002, proceedings of the conference ``New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra era'', ESTEC (The Netherlands, Nov 2001)



Evidence for an irradiated accretion disk in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 RE J1034+396,
Puchnarewicz, E., & Soria, R. 2002, proceedings of the conference ``New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra era'', ESTEC (The Netherlands, Nov 2001)



Discrete sources and nuclear region of the starburst spiral M83,
Soria, R., \& Wu, K. 2002, proceedings of the conference ``New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra era'', ESTEC (The Netherlands, Nov 2001)

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