High-Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in black-hole binaries
Abstract
We present the results of the analysis of a large database of X-ray observations of 22 galactic black-hole transients with the Rossi X-Ray timing explorer throughout its operative life for a total exposure time of ~12 Ms. We excluded persistent systems and the peculiar source GRS 1915+105, as well as the most recently discovered sources. The semi-automatic homogeneous analysis was aimed at the detection of high-frequency (100-1000 Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO), of which several cases were previously reported in the literature. After taking into account the number of independent trials, we obtained 11 detections from two sources only: XTE J1550-564 and GRO J1655-40. For the former, the detected frequencies are clustered around 180 Hz and 280 Hz, as previously found. For the latter, the previously-reported dichotomy 300-450 Hz is found to be less sharp. We discuss our results in comparison with kHz QPO in neutron-star X-ray binaries and the prospects for future timing X-ray missions.
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@article{arxiv.1207.2311,
title = {High-Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in black-hole binaries},
author = {Tomaso M. Belloni and Andrea Sanna and Mariano Mendez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.2311},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS