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In the last few years, a mysterious new class of astrophysical objects has been uncovered. These are spatially coincident with the nuclei of external galaxies and show X-ray variations that repeat on timescales of minutes to a month. They…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-08 Petra Suková , Francesco Tombesi , Dheeraj R. Pasham , Michal Zajaček , Thomas Wevers , Taeho Ryu , Itai Linial , Alessia Franchini

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

We present the results from an investigation of the energy dependence of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) exhibited by accreting X-ray pulsars using data from archival \textit{XMM-Newton}, \textit{NuSTAR}, \textit{RXTE}, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-01 Hemanth Manikantan , Biswajit Paul , Rahul Sharma , Pragati Pradhan , Vikram Rana

The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after $\sim$ 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Jiashi Chen , Wei Wang

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…

XMMU J134736.6+173403 is an X-ray source discovered serendipitously by XMM-Newton which was found to be spatially coincident with a pair of galaxies, including a Seyfert 2 galaxy, but presented in 2003 a very sharp persistent flux drop of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Stefania Carpano , Chichuan Jin

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) have been detected in many Fermi-detected bright blazars. In this letter, we report multiple QPOs detected in a non-blazar AGN PKS 0521-36 searched over the entire 15 years of Fermi-LAT data. QPOs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-21 Ajay Sharma , Raj Prince , Debanjan Bose

We have investigated the Quasi Periodic Oscillation (QPO) properties of the transient accreting X-ray pulsar XTE J1858+034 during the second outburst of this source in April-May 2004. We have used observations made with the Proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Mukherjee , S. Bapna , H. Raichur , B. Paul , S. N. A. Jaaffrey

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

In this work, we examine the application of the wavelet transform to the X-ray timing analyses of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and quasi-periodic eruption sources (QPEs). Several scenarios are simulated to test the effectiveness of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Akshay Ghosh , L. C. Gallo , A. G. Gonzalez

We suggest that persistent low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) detected in X-ray, ultraviolet, optical energy ranges the black hole (BH) sources XTE J1118+480, GRO J1655-40 LMC X-1 at ~ 0.1 Hz, and QPOs in HZ Her/Her X-1 at ~…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lev Titarchuk , Vladimir Osherovich

Following the recent discovery of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) coming from the nucleus of the galaxy GSN 069, here we report on the detection of QPEs in the active galaxy named RX J1301.9+2747. QPEs are rapid and recurrent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Margherita Giustini , Giovanni Miniutti , Richard D. Saxton

It has recently been suggested that the maximum observed quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) frequencies, $\nu_{max}$, for several low-mass X-ray binaries, particularly 4U 1820-30, correspond to the orbital frequency at the inner-most stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Lai , Richard Lovelace , Ira Wasserman

We report the discovery of a new class of low frequency quasi--periodic variations of the X-ray flux in the X-ray bursters 4U1608-52 and 4U1636-536. We also report an occasional detection of a similar QPO in Aql X-1. The QPOs, associated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Revnivtsev , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov , R. Sunyaev

We have detected large-amplitude 0.3-1.2 mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from the low-mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1626-67/KZ TrA, using UV photometry from HST and ground-based optical photometry. These 1 mHz QPOs, which have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Deepto Chakrabarty , Lee Homer , Philip A. Charles , Darragh O'Donoghue

We investigate marginally stable nuclear burning on the surface of accreting neutron stars as an explanation for the mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed from three low mass X-ray binaries. At the boundary between unstable and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alexander Heger , Andrew Cumming , Stanford E. Woosley

Quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) provide a powerful tool for probing the structure of the innermost accretion flow and corona around supermassive black holes. RE~J1034+396, the most prominent AGN known to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Ruisong Xia , Yongquan Xue , Jialai Wang , Hao Liu

In this work, we report, for the first time, a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the $\gamma$-ray band of 4FGL J0309.9-6058, also known as PKS 0308-611. We employed three analytical methods (the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, REDFIT, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-27 Jingyu Wu , Zhihao Ouyang , Hubing Xiao , Elisa Prandini , Shangchun Xie , Sheng Yang , Jianzhen Chen , Shaohua Zhang , Haoyang Zhang , Junhui Fan

We consider the inner regions of accretion disks surrounding black holes and neutron stars and investigate the nonlinear time dependent evolution of thermal-viscous instabilities. The viscous stress is assumed to be proportional to the gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Xingming Chen , Ronald E. Taam

We have discovered two simultaneous kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the Z source GX 340+0 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The X-ray hardness-intensity and color-color diagram each show a full Z-track, with an extra limb…