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We made use high-cadence observations from the $Insight$-HXMT and $NICER$ to scrutinize the spectral and timing evolution during the 2018 outburst of the black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) MAXI J1820+070. It's hardness-intensity diagram (HID)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 YaXing Li , Zhen Yan , ChenXu Gao , Wenfei Yu

Motivated by recent studies showing an apparent correlation between the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and the low-frequency, type-C QPO in low-mass, black hole X-ray binaries (LMXBs), we explore a model that explains all…

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In this work I report on the stochastic X-ray variability of the 340 Hz accreting millisecond pulsar MAXI J0911-655. Analyzing pointed observations of the XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observatories I find that the source shows broad band-limited…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Peter Bult

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with frequencies from $\sim0.05$-$30$ Hz are a common feature in the X-ray emission of accreting black hole binaries. As the QPOs originate from the innermost accretion flow, they provide the opportunity…

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In the propagating oscillatory shock model, the oscillation of the post-shock region, i.e., the Compton cloud, causes the observed low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). The evolution of QPO frequency is explained by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-27 Broja G. Dutta , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) have been routinely observed in black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs). These LFQPOs can be explained by axisymmetric shock oscillation in accretion flow around a rotating black hole. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Chandra B. Singh , Santanu Mondal , David Garofalo

During outbursts, the observational properties of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) vary on timescales of days to months. These relatively short timescales make these systems ideal laboratories to probe the coupling between accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-01 M. Lucchini , T. D. Russell , S. B. Markoff , F. Vincentelli , D. Gardenier , C. Ceccobello , P. Uttley

We conduct an in-depth study of the quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) properties of RE J1034+396, by constructing QPO phase-folded light curves from 10 XMM-Newton observations during 2020-2021. Our analysis reveals that the QPO in the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Wen-Zhong Li , Shu Zhang , Qing-Cang Shui , Yu-Peng Chen , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Hua Feng , Ming-Yu Ge , Lian Tao , Jing-Qiang Peng , Bo-Yan Chen , Ling-Da Kong , Peng-Ju Wang

A recent study shows that if the power spectra (PS) of accreting compact objects consist of a combination of Lorentzian functions that are coherent in different energy bands but incoherent with each other, the same is true for the Real and…

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Low frequency (approximately 0.1-35 Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) of the X-ray flux characterize many of the black hole candidates, in particular those which have radio evidence for jets. These QPO have amplitudes of up to 20 per…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Swank

Low and intermediate frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are thought to be due to oscillations of Comptonizing regions or hot regions embedded in Keplerian discs. Observational evidence of evolutions of QPOs would therefore be very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-05 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Broja G. Dutta , P. S. Pal

We study the properties of the type-C quasi-periodic oscillation (type-C QPO) of MAXI J1348-630 during its 2019 outburst and reflare with NICER. This is the first time that the evolution of the properties of type-C QPOs is studied during an…

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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 present a systematic study of the evolution of the corona geometry in nine black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) using archival data from NICER. We identify 171 observations exhibiting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) across various…

Observations of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in X-ray binaries hold a key to understanding many aspects of these enigmatic systems. Complex appearance of the Fourier phase lags related to QPOs is one of the most puzzling observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Nikolai Shaposhnikov

We model energy dependencies of the quasi periodic oscillations (QPO) in the model of disc epicyclic motions, with X-ray modulation caused by varying relativistic effects. The model was proposed to explain the high frequency QPO observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. T. Zycki , A. Niedzwiecki , M. A. Sobolewska

We present the results of the timing analysis of five Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the Black Hole Candidate GRS 1915+105 between 1996 September and 1997 December. The aim was to investigate the possible presence of a type-B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paolo Soleri , Tomaso Belloni , Piergiorgio Casella

We report the discovery of a $\sim 1.5 \times 10^{-4}$ Hz ($\sim 2$ hr) X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the active galaxy MS 2254.9-3712, using a $\sim 70$ ks XMM-Newton observation. The QPO is significantly detected ($\sim 3.3…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 W. N. Alston , M. L. Parker , J. Markeviciute , A. C. Fabian , M. Middleton , A. Lohfink , E. Kara , C. Pinto

We report the energy-resolved broadband timing analysis of the black hole X-ray transient MAXI J1631-479 during its 2019 outburst from February 11 to April 9, using data from the Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT), which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Q. C. Bu , S. N. Zhang , A. Santangelo , T. M. Belloni , L. Zhang , J. L. Qu , L. Tao , Y. Huang , X. Ma , Z. S. Li , S. Zhang , L. Chen , the Insight-HMXT collaboration