Work
Research
One page per project, each with the paper linked at the bottom.
- GRS 1915+105, a black hole with a heartbeatAkbari, Patel, Bhattacharya, Bhattacharyya & Choudhury · ApJ 1007, 64 (2026)
- Looking for two black holes orbiting each otherAkbari · ApJ 1009, 184 (2026)
- Can a fast X-ray fit tell when it's wrong?Akbari · Preprint · arXiv:2606.17098
- One star or two?Akbari · Preprint · arXiv:2607.08856
- Could something alive be made of plasma?Exploratory · stopped, might come back · simulations
Papers
First author
- Akbari, K., “A Cross-Band (X-ray × Optical) Periodicity Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: A Null Result and the First Completeness-Corrected Constraint.”
- Akbari, K., Patel, C., Bhattacharya, S., Bhattacharyya, S., & Choudhury, M., “Probing heartbeat oscillations from the black hole X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 using spectral-timing analysis.”
- Akbari, K., “Misspecification in amortized X-ray spectral inference: a detection benchmark, a gain shift three schemes cannot see, and marginalizing it out.”
Preprint. arXiv
- Akbari, K., “A Calibration Audit of a Gaia XP White-Dwarf Main-Sequence Binary Catalog: How Much the BP-Band Residual Contaminates at Its Bound and Above.”
Preprint. arXiv
As co-author
- Patel, C., Bhattacharya, S., Akbari, K., Nadar, R., Bhattacharyya, S., & Choudhury, M., “Circumstellar Disc and X-ray Variability in the Be/X-ray Binary SXP 5.05 During its 2024 Outburst.”
JHEAP, 100758 (2026). DOI
- Patel, C., Bhattacharya, S., Akbari, K., Bhattacharyya, S., & Choudhury, M., “A continuous transition from Type-C Quasi Periodic Oscillations to the Heartbeat state in the Black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47.”
Under review, MNRAS. arXiv
- Nandi, A., et al. (52 authors, including Akbari, K.), “Importance and Science Outcomes from the first XSPECT/XPoSat Workshop.”
Workshop white paper. arXiv