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Pulsar timing measurements can be used to detect gravitational radiation from massive black hole binaries. The ~106d quasi-periodic flux variations in Sagittarius A* at radio wavelengths reported by Zhao, Bower, & Goss (2001) may be due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Andrea N. Lommen , Donald C. Backer

We present a detailed analysis of the spectral and timing characteristics of a 7-Hz type-A quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) detected in NICER observations of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-630 during its high-soft state. The QPO is…

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is a strong, compact radio source believed to be powered by a super-massive black hole at the galactic center. Extinction by dust and gas in the galactic plane prevents observing it optically, but its position and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 David Gordon , Aletha de Witt , Christopher S. Jacobs

We develop a simple physical model to describe the most common type of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) seen in a number of accreting black hole systems, as well as the shape of the relativistically broadened iron emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Jeroen Homan , Jon M. Miller

The radio emission from Sgr A$^\ast$ is thought to be powered by accretion onto a supermassive black hole of $\sim\! 4\times10^6~ \rm{M}_\odot$ at the Galactic Center. At millimeter wavelengths, Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

We report the discovery with the proportional counter array (PCA) onboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) of a 450 Hz quasiperiodic oscillation (QPO) in the hard X-ray flux from the galactic microquasar GRO J1655-40. This is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tod E. Strohmayer

In this work, we analyzed the long term gamma-ray data by a Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) of blazar S2 0109+22, ranging from 2008 to 2023. The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of blazars aided in investigating the physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Haoyang Zhang , Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai

X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are a characteristic feature of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These oscillations have been studied for decades and revealed a rich and complex phenomenology that is still not fully understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 F. M. Vincentelli , N. Bollemeijer , A. Veledina , D. Altamirano , Q. Bu , F. Carotenuto , P. Casella , Y. Cavecchi , R. Ma , G. Marcel , G. Mastroserio , S. Motta , L. Zhang

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 report on the polarized light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, obtained at millimeter wavelength with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The observations took place as a part of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-22 Maciek Wielgus , Monika Moscibrodzka , Jesse Vos , Zachary Gelles , Ivan Marti-Vidal , Joseph Farah , Nicola Marchili , Ciriaco Goddi , Hugo Messias

Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy, provides unique opportunities to study black hole accretion, jet formation, and gravitational physics. The rapid structural changes in Sgr A*'s emission pose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Jakob Knollmüller , Philipp Arras , Torsten Enßlin

Very strong evidence suggests that Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source at the center of the Milky Way, marks the position of a super massive black hole. The proximity of Sgr A* in combination with its mass makes its apparent event…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-06-23 Vincent L. Fish , Sheperd S. Doeleman

The observed quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in low-mass X-ray binaries have been suggested to be probably related to the characteristic oscillation modes in the inner part of a relativistic accretion disk. In this paper we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xue-Bing Wu

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

In order to search for the evidence of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in blazar, multicolor optical observations of the BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 were performed from 2005 to 2012. For $I$ band on March 19 2010 with low variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Shanwei Hong , Dingrong Xiong , Jinming Bai

Using publicly available gamma-rays data from the Fermi satellite and the Fermitools package, we constructed 867-day light curves of Sagittarius A* to search for potential periodicities from 2008 to 2024. By applying statistical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Gustavo Magallanes-Guijón , Sergio Mendoza

The nature of the emission region around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, remains under debate. A prediction of jet models is that a frequency-dependent shift in the position of the radio core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 R. Fraga-Encinas , M. Moscibrodzka , H. Falcke

Compact object systems exhibit Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) as revealed by peaked features in their power density spectra. It has been known that stochastic variations in the accretion disc will propagate to the corona after a time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

We present the results of the analysis of a large database of X-ray observations of 22 galactic black-hole transients with the Rossi X-Ray timing explorer throughout its operative life for a total exposure time of ~12 Ms. We excluded…

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

I review recent work that goes beyond our model for the Low-Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation of microquasars, based on the Accretion-Ejection Instability. I show that similar instabilities, which can be viewed as strongly unstable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michel Tagger