Orateur
Dr
Jérome Rodriguez
(CEA)
Description
In this talk I will first introduce the astrophysical systems at the core of my research, X-ray binaries (a.k.a. microquasars), and will in particular focus on their temporal properties. I will then show how we can try to understand the mechanisms at work in these sources through a timing approach, i.e. the study of their X-ray light curve
and associated evolution on long (day) timescale. Rapid (sub-second) variability is studied through Fourier analysis which has shown a vast richness of behavior in these sources, allowing to go deeper into several domains of (astro)-physics.
