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We systematically examine torsional shear oscillations of neutron star crusts by newly taking into account the possible presence of the phase of cylindrical nuclei. In this study, we neglect an effect of magnetic fields, under which the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Hajime Sotani , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

We report the discovery of low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations centered at 0.11 Hz in the newly discovered 221 s X-ray pulsar XTE J1858+034. Among about 30 known transient X-ray pulsars this is the sixth source in which QPOs have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Paul , A. R. Rao

The kHz QPOs observed in a neutron star low mass X-ray binary are likely to be produced in the innermost regions of accretion disk around the neutron star. The rotational dynamics of the inner disk can be characterized by the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-09 M. H. Erkut

We propose a mechanism to explain the low-frequency QPOs observed in X-ray binary systems and AGNs. To achieve this, we perturbed stable accretion disks around Kerr and EGB black holes at different angular velocities, revealing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Orhan Donmez

High frequency soft reverberation lags have now been detected from stellar mass and super massive black holes. Their interpretation involves reflection of a hard source of photons onto an accretion disk, producing a delayed reflected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Didier Barret

Giant flares from soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are one of the most violent phenomena in neutron stars. Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with frequencies ranging from 18 to 1840 Hz have been discovered in the tails of giant flares from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-14 Bo Ma , Xiang-Dong Li , P. F. Chen

High-frequency twin peak quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in four microquasars, i.e., Galactic black hole binary systems, with frequency ratio very close to 3:2. In the microquasar GRS 1915+105, the structure of QPOs exhibits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 Zdenek Stuchlik , Andrea Kotrlova , Gabriel Torok

We compile observations of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) around black holes, both stellar and supermassive, and compare their positions in the parameter space of black hole mass, spin, and oscillation frequency. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Krista Lynne Smith , Celia R. Tandon , Robert V. Wagoner

Alfv\'en waves may be generated via mode conversion from fast magneto-acoustic waves near their reflection level in the solar atmosphere, with implications both for coronal oscillations and for active region helio-seismology. In active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul S. Cally , Shelley C. Hansen

The detection of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in magnetar giant flares (GFs) has brought a new perspective to study the mechanism of magnetar bursts. Due to the scarcity of GFs, searching QPOs from magnetar short bursts is reasonable.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Run-Chao Chen , Can-Min Deng , Xiang-Gao Wang , Zi-Min Zhou , Xing Yang , Da-Bin Lin , Qi Wang , En-Wei Liang

Using the method of multiple scales, one can derive an analytic solution that describes the behaviour of weakly coupled, non-linear oscillations in nearly Keplerian discs around neutron stars or black holes close to the 3:2 orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paola Rebusco

Origin of wide varieties of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) observed in compact sources is still not well established. Its frequencies range from mHz to kHz spanning all compact objects. Are different QPOs, with different frequencies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-22 Arghya Ranjan Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We report the detection of mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in four NuSTAR observations of 4U 1626-67 during its recent spin-down episode. By using a novel method based on the Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), we present the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Zi-Yi Zhou , Long Ji , Ling-Da Kong , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Qing-Cang Shui , Lian Tao

Twin-peak quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in several low-mass X-ray binary systems containing neutron stars (NSs). Timing analysis of X-ray fluxes of more than dozen of such systems reveals remarkable correlations between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Gabriel Török , Kateřina Goluchová , Eva Šrámková , Jiří Horák , Pavel Bakala , Martin Urbanec

Quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) detected in the X-ray radiation of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) is thought to originate from dynamical processes in the close vicinity of the black holes (BHs), and thus carries important physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Hai-Wu Pan , Weimin Yuan , Su Yao , Xin-Lin Zhou , Bifang Liu , Hongyan Zhou , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Previous work on the sonic-point beat-frequency (SPBF) model of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in the X-ray flux from neutron stars in low-mass binary systems has shown that it naturally explains many properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederick K. Lamb , M. Coleman Miller

In our previous work (Paper I) we applied several models of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) to estimate the spin of the central compact object in three Galactic microquasars assuming the possibility that the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Andrea Kotrlová , Eva Šrámková , Gabriel Török , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Kateřina Goluchová

Seventeen examples are given of Cataclysmic Variable (CV) stars possessing both Dwarf Nova Oscillations (DNOs) and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs). These form an extension of the X-Ray Two-QPO correlation to frequencies three orders of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian Warner , Patrick A. Woudt

Observations with RXTE have revealed kilohertz quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) from nearly twenty different neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These frequencies often appear as a pair of kilohertz QPOs in a given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Coleman Miller

We numerically examine centrifugally supported shock waves in 2D rotating accretion flows around a stellar-mass (10M_sun) and a supermassive (10^6M_sun) black holes over a wide range of input accretion rates of 10^7 >\dot M/\dot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Okuda , V. Teresi , D. Molteni