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Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in the optical flux of some polars with typical periods of 1 to 3 s but none have been observed yet in X-rays where a significant part of the accreting energy is released. QPOs are expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud , M. Mouchet , C. Busschaert , E. Falize , C. Michaut

Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations or kHz QPOs occur on the orbital timescale of the inner accretion flow and may carry signatures of the physics of strong gravity (c$^{2}$ ~ GM/R) and possibly clues to constraining the neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Jon Troyer , Edward Cackett , Philippe Peille , Didier Barret

In this work, we report for the first time two repeated quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the light curve of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) S5 1044+71. This source was observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Jie Wang , Ting-Feng Yi , Yangwei Zhang , He Lu , Yuncai Shen , Lisheng Mao , Liang Dong

We found a possible ~ 1 hour quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in a ~ 55 ks X-ray observation of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG--06--30--15 made with the XMM-Newton EPIC/pn detector in the energy range 0.3 -- 10 keV. We identify a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-07 Alok C. Gupta , Ashutosh Tripathi , Paul J. Wiita , Minfeng Gu , Cosimo Bambi , Luis C. Ho

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) at frequencies near 1000 Hz were recently discovered in several x-ray binaries containing neutron stars. Two sources show no correlation between QPO frequency and source count rate (Berger et al. 1996,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Philip Kaaret , Eric Ford , Kaiyou Chen

We report on the discovery of mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from the high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) IGRJ19140+0951, during a 40 ks XMM-Newton observation performed in 201 5, which caught the source in its faintest state ever…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 L. Sidoli , P. Esposito , S. E. Motta , G. L. Israel , G. A. Rodriguez Castillo

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

We present analysis of fast variability of Very Large Telescope/ISAAC (infra-red), \textit{XMM-Newton}/OM (optical) and EPIC-pn (X-ray), and RXTE/PCA (X-ray) observations of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 in a rising hard state of its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 M. Kalamkar , P. Casella , P. Uttley , K. O'Brien , D. Russell , T. Maccarone , M. van der Klis , F. Vincentelli

We report the discovery of the correlated optical/X-ray low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole binary SWIFT J1753.5-0127. The phase lag between two light-curves at the QPO frequency is close to zero. This result puts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Alexandra Veledina , Mikhail G. Revnivtsev , Martin Durant , Poshak Gandhi , Juri Poutanen

We present evidence for Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the recurrent outburst emission from the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806-20 using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations. By searching a sample of 30 bursts for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-13 Ahmed M. El-Mezeini , Alaa I. Ibrahim

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

Strong, coherent, quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) with frequencies ranging from about 300 Hz to 1200 Hz have been discovered with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer in the X-ray emission from some fifteen neutron stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Coleman Miller , Frederick K. Lamb , Dimitrios Psaltis

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

We report the discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) pulsar LMC X-4 in its non-flaring (persistent) state using observations with XMM-Newton. In addition to the 74 mHz coherent pulsations, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Ketan Rikame , Biswajit Paul , Pragati Pradhan , KT Paul

We present a study of the properties of strong 0.8-3.0 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) that occurred during 1997 RXTE observations of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 in the low-hard state. The high count rates allow us to track…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John A. Tomsick , Philip Kaaret

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

This study aims to detect and characterize quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) signals in X-ray observations of NGC 4151. We employed the Weighted Wavelet Z-transform (WWZ) and Lomb-Scargle periodogram (LSP) methods for our analysis. QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-25 Yan Yongkang , Zhang Peng , Lu Zhou , Bao Tong , Liu Dejian , Liu Gaochao , Liu Qingzhong , Yan Jingzhi , Zeng Xiangyun

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

We report the discovery of a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of the dipping and eclipsing low-mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676. The QPO had a frequency between 0.58 and 2.44 Hz changing…

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurrent X-ray bursts found so far in the nuclei of low-mass galaxies. Their trigger mechanism is still unknown, but recent models involving one or two stellar-mass companions around the central massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 R. Arcodia , G. Miniutti , G. Ponti , J. Buchner , M. Giustini , A. Merloni , K. Nandra , F. Vincentelli , E. Kara , M. Salvato , D. Pasham