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We report the development of a new tool to determine the origin of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in accretion disk systems. The technique uses the source energy spectrum and the energy dependence of the QPO fractional amplitude to…

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X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in AGN allow us to probe and understand the nature of accretion in highly curved space-time, yet the most robust form of detection (i.e. repeat detections over multiple observations) has been limited…

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We present results from the analysis of X-ray energy spectra and quasi- periodic oscillations (QPOs) from a set of observations which samples a broad range of time variability in GRS 1915+105. We first demonstrate that the frequency and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael P. Muno , Edward H. Morgan , Ronald A. Remillard

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 on a comprehensive analysis of the kilohertz (above 300 Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) detected from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U0614+09 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). With a much larger data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Boutelier , Didier Barret , M. Coleman Miller

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 global nonlinear time dependent evolution of accretion disk-corona systems in X-ray binary sources has been investigated to provide an understanding of the low frequency ($\sim 0.04$~Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Marek A. Abramowicz , Xingming Chen , Ronald E. Taam

The behavior of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) at frequencies near 1 kHz in the x-ray emission from the neutron star x-ray binary 4U1820-30 has been interpreted as evidence for the existence of the marginally stable orbit, a key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Kaaret , S. Piraino , P. F. Bloser , E. C. Ford , J. E. Grindlay , A. Santangelo , A. P. Smale , W. Zhang

This paper provides a review of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in low-mass X-ray binaries recently discovered with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. It contains two tables that are up to date up to October 1st, 1997 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 M. van der Klis

Following the discovery of 3:2 resonance quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in M82X-1 (Pasham et al. 2014), we have constructed power density spectra (PDS) of all 15 (sufficiently long) {\it XMM-Newton} observations of the ultraluminous…

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We present analysis of fast variability of Very Large Telescope/ISAAC (infra-red), \textit{XMM-Newton}/OM (optical) and EPIC-pn (X-ray), and RXTE/PCA (X-ray) observations of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 in a rising hard state of its…

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Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are very common in black hole accretion systems that are seen from the modulations in luminosity. Many supermassive black hole sources (e.g., RE J1034+396, 1H~0707-495, MCG-6-30-15, 1ES~1927+654,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno

We report the timing results with Insight-HXMT observations of X-ray binary IGR J19294+1816 during its 2019 Type I outburst at the decline phase shortly following its peak. We analyze the light curves and power density spectrum (PDS) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-09 Wen Yang , Wei Wang

We report the discovery of a new class of low frequency quasi--periodic variations of the X-ray flux in the X-ray bursters 4U1608-52 and 4U1636-536. We also report an occasional detection of a similar QPO in Aql X-1. The QPOs, associated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Revnivtsev , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov , R. Sunyaev

Based on abundant data from Insight-HXMT, we conducted a detailed analysis of type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-630. Type-C QPOs were intensively detected over a broad energy band, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 X. -L. Wang , Z. Yan , F. -G. Xie , J. -F. Wang , Y. -X. Li , Z. -Y. Liu , R. -Y. Ma

Black hole and neutron star X-ray binary systems routinely show quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in their X-ray flux. Despite being strong, easily measurable signals, their physical origin has long remained elusive. However, recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Adam Ingram , Sara Motta

We report on RXTE observations of the microquasar XTE J1550 during a ~70 day outburst in April-June 2000. We focus here on the temporal properties of the source and study the behavior of low frequency (0.1-10 Hz) quasi periodic oscillations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Rodriguez , S. Corbel , E. Kalemci , J. A. Tomsick , M. Tagger

We analysed all archival RXTE observations of the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 up to May 2010. In 528 out of 1280 observations we detected kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs), with ~ 65% of these detections…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrea Sanna , Mariano Mendez , Tomaso Belloni , Diego Altamirano