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I report on the discovery of 34 new quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the prompt light curves of long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from the Swift/BAT catalog: with one or more constant leading periods, as well as several chirping signals.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Mariusz Tarnopolski

We report a 325(-7, +8) day quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the X-ray emission of the blazar Mkn 421, based on data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The QPO is seen prominently in the ASM data (at least 15 cycles),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Evan Smith , Lani Oramas , Eric Perlman

We briefly review the properties and physical consequences of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) seen on many occasions in the X-ray emission from black-hole binary systems. We also report on the discovery of QPOs at 164 and 328 Hz in…

Astronomy is presently experiencing profound growth in the deployment of machine learning to explore large datasets. However, transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) which appear in power density spectra of many X-ray binary system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Thaddaeus J. Kiker , James F. Steiner , Cecilia Garraffo , Mariano Mendez , Liang Zhang

Observations of X-ray emissions from binary systems have long since been considered important tools to test General Relativity in strong-field regimes. The high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) observed in binaries containing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luciano Rezzolla , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Thomas J. Maccarone , Olindo Zanotti

An appearance or disappearance of QPOs associated with the variation of X-ray flux can be used to decipher the accretion ejection mechanism of black hole X-ray sources. We searched and studied such rapid transitions in H1743-322 using RXTE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 K. Sriram , S. Harikrishna , C. S. Choi

We propose that high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) can be produced from randomly-formed X-ray bursts (flashes) by plasma interior to the ergosphere of a rapidly-rotating black hole. We show by direct computation of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas

The Accretion-Ejection Instability has been proposed to explain the low frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) observed in low-mass X-Ray Binaries, in particular Black-Hole candidates. Its frequency, typically a fraction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Varniere , J. Rodriguez , M. Tagger

High-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) appear in general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetically choked accretion flows around rapidly rotating black holes (BHs). We perform polarized radiative transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Jonathan C. McKinney

Context. The study of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPO) at low and high frequency in the variability of the high-energy emission from black-hole binaries and their physical interpretation in terms of signatures of General Relativity in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-31 S. E. Motta , T. M. Belloni

In the manuscript, a 3.8yr optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) is reported in blue quasar SDSS J132144+033055 (=\obj) at $z=0.269$, based on 16.3yr-long light curve from both CSS and ZTF directly described by a sinusoidal function.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 XueGuang Zhang

We investigate torsional Alfv\'en oscillations of relativistic stars with a global dipole magnetic field, via two-dimensional numerical simulations. We find that a) there exist two families of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hajime Sotani , Kostas Kokkotas , Nikolaos Stergioulas

In this paper we propose a new model for quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) based on oscillating magnetohydrodynamic modes in neutron star magnetospheres. We argue that the interaction of the accretion disk with the magnetosphere can excite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahid Rezania , John C. Samson

We show how one can estimate the multipole moments of the space-time, assuming that the quasi-periodic modulations of the X-ray flux (quasi-periodic oscillations), observed from accreting neutron stars or black holes, are due to orbital and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-14 George Pappas

A kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (kHz QPO) is an observationally robust high-frequency timing feature detected from neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). This feature can be very useful to probe the superdense core matter of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-18 Arunava Mukherjee , Sudip Bhattacharyya

We study the dependence of kHz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) frequency on accretion-related parameters in the ensemble of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. Based on the mass accretion rate, $\dot{M}$, and the magnetic field strength,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 M. Hakan Erkut , Şivan Duran , Önder Çatmabacak , Onur Çatmabacak

We have investigated the X-ray timing properties of XTE J1550-564 during 60 RXTE PCA observations made between 1998 September 18 and November 28. We detect quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) near 185 Hz during four time intervals. The QPO…

Accreting stellar mass black holes (BHs) routinely exhibit Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). These are often interpreted as Lense-Thirring precession of the inner accretion flow, a relativistic effect whereby the spin of the BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis , Matthew Middleton , Diego Altamirano , Phil Uttley

We present a study on the detection and characterization of transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the $\gamma$-ray emission of blazars 4C +31.03, MG1 J123931+0443, and PKS 1622$-$253. Using light curves derived from \textit{Fermi}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 P. Penil , J. Otero-Santos , A. Circiello , A. Banerjee , S. Buson , A. Rico , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari

We present the discovery of a low-frequency $\approx 5.7$ Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) feature in observations of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1535-571 in its soft-intermediate state, obtained in September-October 2017 by the…