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We present a systematic study of the orbital inclination effects on black-hole transients fast time-variability properties. We have considered all the black-hole binaries that have been densely monitored by the Rossi XTE satellite. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 S. E. Motta , P. Casella , M. Henze , T. Muñoz-Darias , A. Sanna , R. Fender , T. Belloni

KHz QPOs have now been detected in more than twenty accreting neutron stars in low-mass binary systems. Two kHz QPOs are usually detected in each star. Burst oscillations and two kHz QPOs have recently been detected in the 401 Hz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederick K. Lamb , M. Coleman Miller

Fast time variability is the most prominent characteristic of accreting systems and the presence of quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) is a constant in all accreting systems, from cataclysmic variables to AGNs, passing through black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 S. E. Motta

We use a relativistic ray-tracing code to calculate the light curves observed from a global general relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic simulation of an accretion flow onto a Schwarzschild black hole. We apply three basic emission models to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Julian H. Krolik , John F. Hawley

We investigate frequency correlations of low frequency (LF, <80 Hz) and kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) using the complete RXTE data sets on 6 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars (AMXPs) and compare them to those of non-pulsating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-25 Marieke van Doesburgh , Michiel van der Klis

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a recently identified class of X-ray transient associated with tidal disruption events by supermassive black holes, and for which there are multiple possible explanations. In this paper we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 M. Middleton , A. Gurpide , T. M. Kwan , L. Dai , R. Arcodia , J. Chakraborty , T. Dauser , P. C. Fragile , A. Ingram , G. Miniutti , C. Pinto , P. Kosec

We consider the interpretation of a pair of kHz Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the Fourier spectra of two Low Mass X-Ray Binaries, Sco X-1 and 4U1608-52, hosting an old accreting neutron star. The observed frequency difference of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luigi Stella , Mario Vietri

Periodic outbursts are observed in many AGNs and usually explained with a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) scenario. However, multiple periods are observed in some AGNs and cannot be explained with it. Here we analyze the periodicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. K. Liu , G. Zhao , Xue-Bing Wu

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), in particular, the ones with high frequencies, often observed in the power spectrum of black holes, are useful in understanding the nature of strong gravity since they are associated with the motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-27 Indrani Banerjee

Recent studies have shown that strong correlations are observed between low frequency QPO`s and the spectral power law index for a number of black hole candidate sources (BHC's), when these sources exhibit quasi-steady hard x-ray emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Ralph Fiorito , Lev Titarchuk

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

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

We investigate the energy dependencies of X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations in black hole X-ray binaries. We analyze RXTE data on both the low- and high-frequency QPO. We construct the low-f QPO energy spectra, and demonstrate that they do…

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

{This study explores the motion of massive test particles and associated quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) around an accelerating black hole. The acceleration factor $A$ suppresses the radial effective potential $V_{\text{eff}}$, thereby…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Tao-Tao Sui , Xin-Yang Wang

Black holes in dense astrophysical environments, such as globular clusters or in the vicinity of other massive objects, may possess accelerations. Such acceleration would modulate the characteristics of the quasi-periodic oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Hamza Rehman , Saddam Hussain , G. Abbas , Tao Zhu

We explain the millisecond variability detected by Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in the X-ray emission from a number of low mass X-ray binary systems (Sco X-1, 4U1728-34, 4U1608-522, 4U1636-536, 4U0614+091, 4U1735-44, 4U1820-30, GX5-1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lev Titarchuk , Iosif Lapidus , Alex Muslimov

We compare the theoretical predictions of the transition layer model with some observational features of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in neutron star X-ray binaries. We found that the correlation between horizontal branch oscillation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Xue-Bing Wu

The origin of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole accretion flow remains uncertain, particularly regarding the role of magnetic field configurations in shaping disk structure and variability signatures. We investigate this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Jing-Ze Xia , Hong-Xuan Jiang , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno

Using the Insight-HXMT observations of GRS 1915+105 when it exhibits low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), we measure the evolution of the QPO frequency along with disk inner radius and mass accretion rate. We find a tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Honghui Liu , Long Ji , Cosimo Bambi , Pankaj Jain , Ranjeev Misra , Divya Rawat , J. S. Yadav , Yuexin Zhang

The low frequency quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) are commonly observed during hard states of black hole binaries. Several studies have established various observational/empirical correlations between spectral parameters and QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Anjali Rao Jassal , Santosh V. Vadawale , Mithun N. P. S , Ranjeev Misra
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