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We investigated the quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) features in the accretion-powered X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 observed by Insight-HXMT. For two observations in 2020 when Cen X-3 was in an extremely soft state, the power density spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Q. Liu , W. Wang , X. Chen , W. Yang , F. J. Lu , L. M. Song , J. L. Qu , S. Zhang , S. N. Zhang

We present the results from an investigation of the energy dependence of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) exhibited by accreting X-ray pulsars using data from archival \textit{XMM-Newton}, \textit{NuSTAR}, \textit{RXTE}, and…

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We report here a study of the long term properties of Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPO) in an unusual accreting X-ray pulsar, 4U 1626--67. This is a unique accretion powered X-ray pulsar in which we have found the QPOs to be present during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramanpreet Kaur , Biswajit Paul , Brijesh Kumar , Ram Sagar

We report the discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) pulsar LMC X-4 in its non-flaring (persistent) state using observations with XMM-Newton. In addition to the 74 mHz coherent pulsations, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Ketan Rikame , Biswajit Paul , Pragati Pradhan , KT Paul

We report the discovery of kHz fluctuations, including quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) at ~330 Hz and ~760 Hz and a broadband kHz continuum in the power density spectrum of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar Centaurus X-3. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Garrett Jernigan , Richard I. Klein , Jonathan Arons

We have investigated the Quasi Periodic Oscillation (QPO) properties of the transient accreting X-ray pulsar XTE J1858+034 during the second outburst of this source in April-May 2004. We have used observations made with the Proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Mukherjee , S. Bapna , H. Raichur , B. Paul , S. N. A. Jaaffrey

We report the discovery of Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPO) at 0.02 Hz in a transient high mass X-ray binary pulsar KS 1947+300 using {\em RXTE}-PCA. The QPOs were detected during May-June 2001, at the end of a long outburst. This is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Marykutty James , Biswajit Paul , Jincy Devasia , Kavila Indulekha

The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer observed the soft X-Ray transient Aql X-1 during its outburst in February and March 1997. We report the discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in its persistent flux with frequencies in the range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Zhang , K. Jahoda , R. L. Kelley , T. E. Strohmayer J. H. Swank , S. N. Zhang

Strong, coherent, quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) with frequencies ranging from about 300 Hz to 1200 Hz have been discovered with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer in the X-ray emission from some fifteen neutron stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb , Dimitrios Psaltis

We have carried out a systematic study of the properties of the kilo-Hertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) observed in the X-ray emission of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U1608-52, using archival data obtained with the Rossi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Barret , W. Kluzniak , J. F. Olive , S. Paltani , G. K. Skinner

We report the discovery with XMM-Newton of an approximately 7 mHz X-ray (0.3-10.0 keV) quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) from the eclipsing, high-inclination black hole binary IC 10 X-1. The QPO is significant at > 4.33 sigma confidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Dheeraj R. Pasham , Tod E. Strohmayer , Richard F. Mushotzky

We report the detection of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at ~41 mHz in the transient high-mass Be/X-ray binary pulsar 4U~0115+634 using data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observatory. The observations used in the present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Moti R. Dugair , Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik , S. N. A. Jaaffrey

RX J0440.9+4431 is an accreting X-ray pulsar (XRP) that remained relatively unexplored until recently, when major X-ray outburst activity enabled more in-depth studies. Here, we report on the discovery of ${\sim}0.2$ Hz quasi-periodic…

We report the discovery of milli-hertz (mHz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and QPO-modulated pulsations during large X-ray flares from the high-mass X-ray binary pulsar LMC X-4 using data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dae-Sik Moon , Stephen. S. Eikenberry

We report the discovery, with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), of the first sub-millisecond oscillation found in a celestial X-ray source. The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) come from Sco X-1 and have a frequency of…

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in the optical flux of some polars with typical periods of 1 to 3 s but none have been observed yet in X-rays where a significant part of the accreting energy is released. QPOs are expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud , M. Mouchet , C. Busschaert , E. Falize , C. Michaut

We report here discovery of Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) Pulsar XTE J0111.20-7317 during a transient outburst in this source in December 1998. Using observations made with the proportional counter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ramanpreet Kaur , Biswajit Paul , Harsha Raichur , Ram Sagar

We report the discovery of a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of the dipping and eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676. The QPO had a frequency between 0.58 and 2.44 Hz changing…

With a systematic timing investigation of the persistent X-ray binary pulsar Her X-1 based on a large number of Insight-HXMT observations between 2017 to 2019, we confirm the presence of X-ray millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Wen Yang , Wei Wang

Our goal is to investigate the X-ray timing and spectral variability of the high-mass X-ray binary 1A 1118-615 during a type-II outburst. We performed a detailed color, spectral and timing analysis of a giant outburst from 1A 1118-615,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Elisa Nespoli , Pablo Reig
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