English
Related papers

Related papers: Correlations between X-ray Spectral and Timing Cha…

200 papers

The recently updated data of the twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries are analyzed. The power-law fitting $\nu_{1}=a(\nu_{2}/1000)^{b}$ and linear fitting $\nu_{2}=A\nu_{1}+B$ are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 H. X. Yin , Y. H. Zhao

We analyzed RXTE/PCA observations of Cyg X-1 from 1996-1998. We found a tight correlation between the characteristic noise frequencies (e.g. the break frequency nu_br) and the spectral parameters in the low spectral state. The amplitude of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Gilfanov , E. Churazov , M. Revnivtsev

It is well established that timing and spectral properties of Galactic Black Hole (BH) X-ray binaries (XRB) are strongly correlated. In particular, it has been shown that low frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) frequency - photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nickolai Shaposhnikov , Lev Titarchuk

We investigate the behavior of the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in 4U 0614+091, combining timing and spectral analysis of RXTE observations. The energy spectra of the source can be described by a power law (alpha ~ 2.8)…

Some recent observational results impose significant constraints on all the models that have been proposed to explain the Galactic black-hole X-ray sources in the hard state. In particular, it has been found that during the hard state of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. D. Kylafis , I. E. Papadakis , P. Reig , D. Giannios , G. G. Pooley

We present the results of timing analysis of the low-frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) in the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer data of the black hole binary XTE J1550--564 during its 1998 outburst. The QPO frequency is observed to vary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Fengyun Rao , Tomaso Belloni , Luigi Stella , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Tipei Li

The Neutron Star X-ray binary Sco X-1 is one of the brightest Z-type sources in our Galaxy, showing frequent periods of flaring activity and different types of relativistic outflows. Observations with RXTE have shown that the strongest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 J. López-Miralles , S. E. Motta , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , J. Homan , J. Kajava , S. Migliari

We present Keck II spectroscopy of an optical mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the lightcurve of the X-ray pulsar binary Her X-1. In the power spectrum it appears as `peaked noise', with a coherency $\sim$2, a central frequency of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 K O'Brien , Keith Horne , B Boroson , M Still , R Gomer , JB Oke , P Boyd , S Vrtilek

We study energy dependencies of quasi-periodic oscillations from a number of black hole X-ray binaries. The selected sources were observed by RXTE at time periods close to state transitions and showed QPO in the 1-10 Hz range. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Sobolewska , P. T. Zycki

The luminous X-ray binary and black-hole candidate LMC X-1 has been observed with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) to search for quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO), previously reported in its high state. The source was observed monthly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. Schmidtke , A. L. Ponder , A. P. Cowley

We exhibit, by compiling all data sets we can acquire, that the Fourier frequency dependent hard X-ray lags, first observed in the analysis of aperiodic variability of the light curves of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1, appear to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xin-Min Hua , Demosthenes Kazanas , Wei Cui

Very low frequency ({\nu} ~ 1.9 mHz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) have been detected in 2 - 60 keV X-rays from 4U1700-37 using auto-correlation function analysis of RXTE archival data. No pulsar signal was detected in the data. Less…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-11 J. F. Dolan

We report the discovery of strong aperiodic X-ray variability and quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the X-ray light curves of a new X-ray Nova, XTE J1550-564, and the evolution of the observed temporal properties during the rise of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wei Cui , S. N. Zhang , Wan Chen , E. H. Morgan

An analysis is presented of the power spectrum of X-ray variability of the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 766 as observed by XMM-Newton. Over the 0.2-10 keV energy range the power spectral density (PSD) is well-represented by a power-law with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 S. Vaughan , A. C. Fabian

We analysed RXTE data of Sco X-1 which show kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and the $\sim$6--8 Hz normal-branch oscillation (NBO) simultaneously. Using power spectra of 0.03--0.5 s data segments, we find that both the upper kHz QPO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wenfei Yu , Michiel van der Klis , Peter Jonker

We report the discovery of a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at 642 mHz in an {\it XMM-Newton} observation of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) IC 342 X-1. The QPO has a centroid at $\nu_{QPO} = 642 \pm 20$ mHz, a coherence factor of $…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 V. K. Agrawal , Anuj Nandi

The entire dataset of the GRANAT/SIGMA observations of Cyg X-1 and 1E1740.7-2942 in 1990-1994 was analyzed in order to search for correlations between primary observational characteristics of the hard X-ray (40-200 keV) emission - hard…

Spectral-timing products of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems, including energy- and frequency-dependent lags, have been analyzed previously in 4U 1608-52, 4U 1636-53, and 4U 1728-34.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Jon S. Troyer , Edward M. Cackett

We study the timing properties of the low mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-34 using recently released data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. This binary, like many others with accreting neutron stars, is known to exhibit strong quasi-periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. C. Ford , M. van der Klis

Cygnus X-1 and the gamma-ray transients GROJ0422+32 and GROJ1719-24 displayed similar spectral properties when they underwent transitions between the high and low gamma-ray (30 keV to few MeV) intensity states. When these sources were in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James C. Ling , William A. Wheaton