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We report the discovery with XMM-Newton of an approximately 7 mHz X-ray (0.3-10.0 keV) quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) from the eclipsing, high-inclination black hole binary IC 10 X-1. The QPO is significant at > 4.33 sigma confidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Dheeraj R. Pasham , Tod E. Strohmayer , Richard F. Mushotzky

By fitting the frequencies of simultaneous lower and upper kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (kHz QPOs) in two prototype neutron star QPO sources (4U~1636-536 and Sco X-1), we test the predictive power of all currently proposed QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Yong-Feng Lin , Martin Boutelier , Didier Barret , Shuang-Nan Zhang

Quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) have been observed in the power-density spectra of some low-mass X-ray binaries(LMXB) containing a black hole. The two major groups of QPOs -- low-frequency and high-frequency -- have rather different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Ivan Zh. Stefanov

Future very-large-area X-ray instruments (for which the effective area is larger than $>3$m$^2$) will be able to measure the frequencies of quasi-periodic oscillations~(QPOs) observed in the X-ray flux from accreting compact objects with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Andrea Maselli , Paolo Pani , Roberto Cotesta , Leonardo Gualtieri , Valeria Ferrari , Luigi Stella

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

In this study, we explore the influence of the quantum correction parameter $\xi$ on the motion of particles and the properties of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) around a quantum-corrected black hole (QCBH). We first analyze the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-18 Tursunali Xamidov , Sanjar Shaymatov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Tao Zhu

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

(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

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

The study of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of X-ray flux observed in the stellar-mass black hole binaries can provide a powerful tool for testing of the phenomena occurring in strong gravity regime. The high frequency (HF) QPOs usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Martin Kološ , Arman Tursunov , Zdeněk Stuchlík

The dramatic discovery with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite of remarkably coherent $\sim$300--1200 Hz oscillations in the X-ray brightness of some sixteen neutron stars in low-mass binary systems has spurred theoretical modeling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Frederick K. Lamb , M. Coleman Miller , Dimitrios Psaltis

We present the results of timing analysis of the low-frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) in the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer data of the black hole binary XTE J1550--564 during its 1998 outburst. The QPO frequency is observed to vary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Fengyun Rao , Tomaso Belloni , Luigi Stella , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Tipei Li

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 twin peak quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in four microquasars, i.e., Galactic black hole binary systems, with frequency ratio very close to 3:2. In the microquasar GRS 1915+105, the structure of QPOs exhibits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 Zdenek Stuchlik , Andrea Kotrlova , Gabriel Torok

We investigate the effects of the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravitational trace anomaly on the circular motion of test particles around black holes (BHs) and its implications for quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in various theoretical models.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Rupam Jyoti Borah , Umananda Dev Goswami

Quasi-periodic oscillation (QPOs) analysis is important for understanding the dynamical behavior of many astrophysical objects during transient events such as gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, magnetar flares, and fast radio bursts. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-07 Kuantay Boshkayev , Talgar Konysbayev , Yergali Kurmanov , Marco Muccino , Hernando Quevedo

The measurements of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) provide a quite powerful tool to test the nature of astrophysical black hole candidates in the strong gravitational field regime. In this paper, we use QPOs within the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-08 Xin Jiang , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

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

Pairs of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) at kilohertz frequencies are a common phenomenon in several neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries. The frequency separation of the QPO peaks in the pair appears to be constant in many sources and…

We propose a unified model to explain Quasi-Periodic-Oscillation (QPO), particularly of high frequency, observed from black hole and neutron star systems globally. We consider accreting systems to be damped harmonic oscillators exhibiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Banibrata Mukhopadhyay