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We present a model-independent analysis of the short-timescale energy dependence of low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the X-ray flux of GRS 1915+105. The QPO frequency in this source has previously been observed to depend…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Jakob van den Eijnden , Adam Ingram , Phil Uttley

Almost all accreting black hole and neutron star X-ray binary systems (XRBs) exhibit prominent brightness variations on a few characteristic time-scales and their harmonics. These quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are thought to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-04 M. Veresvarska , S. Scaringi , C. Knigge , J. Paice , D. A. H. Buckley , N. Castro Segura , D. de Martino , P. J. Groot , A. Ingram , Z. A. Irving , P. Szkody

We investigate accretion disk dynamics and the formation of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the infrared limit around Kerr-like black holes in asymptotically safe gravity. Relativistic hydrodynamic solutions of Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Orhan Donmez , Sushant G. Ghosh , M. Yousaf , G. Mustafa , Farruh Atamurotov

Kilohertz-scale quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) are a distinct feature of the variability of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. Among all the variability modes, they are especially interesting as a probe for the innermost parts of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Pavel Abolmasov , Juri Poutanen

We perform a systematic study of the evolution of the waveform of black hole X-ray binary low-frequency QPOs, by measuring the phase difference between their fundamental and harmonic features. This phase difference has been studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-11 Iris de Ruiter , Jakob van den Eijnden , Adam Ingram , Phil Uttley

One of the most dramatic discoveries made so far with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer is that many accreting neutron stars with weak magnetic fields generate strong, remarkably coherent, high-frequency X-ray brightness oscillations. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. K. Lamb , M. C. Miller , D. Psaltis

We investigate the effects of subsonic turbulence on a normal mode of oscillation [a possible origin of the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) within some black hole accretion disks]. We consider perturbations of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Robert V. Wagoner , Celia R. Tandon

We investigate the dynamical properties of low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed from the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 during the early part of its 2018 outburst, when the system was in a bright hard state. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-27 P. Zhang , R. Soria , S. Zhang , L. Ji , L. D. Kong , Y. P. Chen , S. N. Zhang , Z. Chang , M. Y. Ge , J. Li , G. C. Liu , Q. Z. Liu , X. Ma , J. Q. Peng , J. L. Qu , Q. C. Shui , L. Tao , H. J. Tian , P. J. Wang , J. Z. Yan , X. Y. Zeng

The frequencies of the highest-frequency kilohertz QPOs recently discovered in some sixteen neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binary systems are most likely the orbital frequencies of gas in Keplerian orbit around these neutron stars. If so,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb , Dimitrios Psaltis

Although low-frequency quasiperiodic oscillations (LFQPOs) are commonly detected in the X-ray light curves of accreting black hole X-ray binaries, their origin still remains elusive. In this study, we conduct phase-resolved spectroscopy in…

The multi-resonance orbital model of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) enables precise determination of the black hole dimensionless spin a if observed set of oscillations demonstrates three (or more) commensurable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-08 Andrea Kotrlova , Zdenek Stuchlik , Gabriel Torok

The variability properties of accreting compact objects predicted by dynamical models are characterized by a number of distinct frequencies that are specific to each model. Because the accretion disks around neutron stars and black holes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dimitrios Psaltis

The shape of the power spectrum of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary evolves systematically over different spectral states during an outburst. Therefore, the power colours (ratio of the variability amplitude at different frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Biki Ram , Manoneeta Chakraborty

We proposed that the spectral evolution of transient X-ray binaries (XrB) is due to an interplay between two flows: a standard accretion disk (SAD) in the outer parts and a jet-emitting disk (JED) in the inner parts. We showed in previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-05 G. Marcel , F. Cangemi , J. Rodriguez , J. Neilsen , J. Ferreira , P. -O. Petrucci , J. Malzac , S. Barnier , M. Clavel

We report a discovery of low-frequency quasi periodic oscillation at 0.3-0.7 Hz in the power spectra of the accreting black hole GRS1739-278 in the hard-intermediate state during its 2014 outburst based on the ${\it NuSTAR}$ and Swift/XRT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Ilya A. Mereminskiy , Andrey N. Semena , Sergey D. Bykov , Ekaterina V. Filippova , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Juri Poutanen

After eleven gravitational-wave detections from compact-binary mergers, we are yet to observe the striking general-relativistic phenomenon of orbital precession. Measurements of precession would provide valuable insights into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Stephen Fairhurst , Rhys Green , Mark Hannam , Charlie Hoy

We present a possible explanation for the high-frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations of microquasars by an MHD instability that combines the physics developed, in different contexts, for the Accretion-Ejection Instability, the Rossby-Wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michel Tagger , Peggy Varniere

High frequency (millisecond) quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) are observed in the X-ray power-density spectra of several microquasars and low mass X-ray binaries. Two distinct QPO peaks, so-called twin peak QPOs, are often detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Pavel Bakala , Kateřina Goluchová , Gabriel Török , Eva Šrámková , Marek A. Abramowicz , Frederic H. Vincent , Grzegorz P. Mazur

An analytic model of rotating hot spot is proposed to explain kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPO) in X-ray binaries, which is based on the magnetic coupling (MC) of a rotating black hole (BH) with its surrounding accretion disc.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. X. Wang , R. Y. Ma , W. H. Lei , G. Z. Yao

General relativity predicts that a rotating body produces a frame-dragging (or Lense-Thirring) effect: the orbital plane of a test particle in a non-equatorial orbit precesses about the body's symmetry axis. In this paper we compute the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sharon M. Morsink , Luigi Stella