Investigating the Changing Dynamics of a Black Hole Accretion Environment

The goal of this research report has been to connect the differing physical structures of X-Ray Binaries (XRBs) to the variance in their brightness. For each selected observation of interest of GRS 1915+105, an XRB, we created a time series visualization and recurrence plot to investigate a pattern between the recurrence plots and the various spectralstates: the low hard state, high soft state, and intermediate state.