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We report transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) on minute timescales in relativistic, radiative models of the galactic center source Sgr A*. The QPOs result from nonaxisymmetric $m=1$ structure in the accretion flow excited by MHD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Hotaka Shiokawa , Scott C. Noble

The high time resolution and large area of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have been essential in the detection and characterization of high-frequency quasi-periodic variability in the flux from neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries. An…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Coleman Miller

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) detected in the 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20 are often interpreted as global magneto-elastic oscillations of the neutron star. There is, however, a large discrepancy between theoretical models, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Daniela Huppenkothen , Anna L. Watts , Yuri Levin

In the context of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (HF QPOs) we further explore the appearance of an observable signal generated by hot spots moving along quasi-elliptic trajectories close to the innermost stable circular orbit in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-24 V. Karas , P. Bakala , G. Torok , M. Dovciak , M. Wildner , D. Wzientek , E. Sramkova , M. A. Abramowicz , K. Goluchova , G. P. Mazur , F. H. Vincent

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 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) is understood to result from wave-mean-flow interactions, but the reasons for its relative stability remain a subject of ongoing debate. In addition, consensus has yet to be reached regarding the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-11-23 Xavier Chartrand , Louis-Philippe Nadeau , Antoine Venaille

We report on the numerical discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) associated with accretion through a non-axisymmetric magnetic boundary layer in the unstable regime, when two ordered equatorial streams form and rotate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. M. Romanova , A. K. Kulkarni

We report the discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) at ~11 mHz in two RXTE observations and one Chandra observation of the black hole candidate H1743-322. The QPO is observed only at the beginning of the 2010 and 2011 outbursts at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Diego Altamirano , Tod Strohmayer

We zoom in on the internal structure of the low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (LF QPO) often observed in black hole binary systems to investigate the physical nature of the lack of coherence in this feature. We show the limitations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Pawel Lachowicz , Chris Done

While the dynamical origin of the variability observed in Galactic Black hole systems, such as quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), are still a matter of debate, insight into the radiative components responsible for such behaviour can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

We suggest a possible explanation for the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole low mass X-ray binaries. By solving the perturbation general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations, we find two stable modes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Chang-Sheng Shi , Xiang-Dong Li

This paper primarily explores the dynamics of charged particle in the magnetized SV spacetime, and constrains the parameters of the SV spacetime along with its surrounding magnetic fields. The constraints are given by using $\chi^2$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Shining Yang , Jianbo Lu , Mou Xu , Yu Liu

Resonant oscillations in warped disks are examined in order to explain high-frequency QPOs and horizontal-branch QPOs in low-mass X-ray binaries. Different from our previous work, addressed to the same subjects, we relax in this paper the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shoji Kato

The twin-peak high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs), observed in the power spectra of low-mass X-ray binaries, might carry relevant clues about the physics laws reigning close to a compact object. Their frequencies are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Germanà , R. Casana

Based on the $Insight$-HXMT archival data, we have detected a new atypical low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (LFQPO) in the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348$-$630. The new LFQPO is detected in all the three instruments of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Xin-Lei Wang , Zhen Yan , Fu-Guo Xie , Jun-Feng Wang , Ren-Yi Ma

The Rossby wave instability (RWI) in non-self-gravitating discs can be triggered by a bump at a radius $r_0$ in the disc surface mass-density (which is proportional to the inverse potential vorticity). It gives rise to a growing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. V. E. Lovelace , R. G. Hohlfeld

(abridged) In this paper we extend the idea suggested previously by Petri (2005a,b) that the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations observed in low-mass X-ray binaries may be explained as a resonant oscillation of the accretion disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Petri

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

Spectral fitting of the spin a in the microquasar GRS 1915+105 estimate values higher than a=0.98. However, there are certain doubts about this (nearly) extremal number. Confirming a high value of a>0.9 would have significant concequences…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Gabriel Torok , Andrea Kotrlova , Eva Sramkova , Zdenek Stuchlik

Based on the interpretation of the twin kilohertz Quasi Periodic Oscillations (kHz QPOs) of X-ray spectra of Low Mass X-Ray Binaries (LMXBs) to the Keplerian and the periastron precession frequencies at the magnetosphere-disk of X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. M. Zhang