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Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are rapid, recurring X-ray bursts from supermassive black holes, believed to result from interactions between accretion disks and surrounding matter. The galaxy SDSS1335+0728, previously stable for two…

Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of low-mass white dwarfs (WDs, 0.1 - 0.3 Msun) around spinning intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs, 10^3 - 10^5 Msun) offer unique opportunities for multi-messenger astronomy, emitting both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Yang Yang , Jie Yang , Xian Chen , Zihan Zhang

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. Though the debates on the origin of QPEs have not completely settled down, more and more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Cong Zhou , Binyu Zhong , Yuhe Zeng , Lei Huang , Zhen Pan

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a recently identified class of X-ray transient associated with tidal disruption events by supermassive black holes, and for which there are multiple possible explanations. In this paper we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 M. Middleton , A. Gurpide , T. M. Kwan , L. Dai , R. Arcodia , J. Chakraborty , T. Dauser , P. C. Fragile , A. Ingram , G. Miniutti , C. Pinto , P. Kosec

One prominent model for quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) is that they originate from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) involving stellar-mass objects orbiting around massive black holes and colliding with their accretion disks. We compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Leif Lui , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Rudrani Kar Chowdhury , Lixin Dai

A modest fraction of the stars in galactic nuclei fed towards the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) approach on low-eccentricity orbits driven by gravitational-wave radiation (extreme mass ratio inspiral, EMRI). In the likely event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger

We report the first direct measurement of the period derivative in a quasi-periodic eruption (QPE), finding a smoothly increasing period with $\dot{P}\approx (1.7\pm 0.02)\times10^{-2}$ d d$^{-1}$ in the source ZTF19acnskyy/"Ansky". Most…

Recent observations have confirmed the direct association between tidal disruption events (TDEs) and quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs). In addition, TDE hosts and QPE hosts are statistically found to be similar in their morphological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Ning Jiang , Zhen Pan

The origin of the quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) is possibly mass loss at the periastron of a body moving around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a high eccentric orbit. Such a tidally stripped star is expected to radiate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-31 Di Wang

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. More and more analyses show that QPEs are the result of collisions between a stellar mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Cong Zhou , Yuhe Zeng , Zhen Pan

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) represent a recently discovered example of extreme X-ray variability associated with supermassive black holes. These are high-amplitude bursts recurring every few hours that are detected in the soft…

Periodic collisions between a star on an inclined orbit around a supermassive black hole and its accretion disk offers a promising explanation for X-ray "quasi-periodic eruptions" (QPEs). Each passage through the disk shocks and compresses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-08 Indrek Vurm , Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger

Galactic nuclei should contain a cluster of stars and compact objects in the vicinity of the central supermassive black hole due to stellar evolution, minor mergers and gravitational dynamical friction. By analogy with protoplanetary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. McKernan , K. E. S. Ford , W. Lyra , H. B. Perets , L. M. Winter , T. Yaqoob

We investigate the epicyclic motion of charged test particles and the associated quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) around a weakly magnetized black hole surrounded by quintessence within the framework of Einstein-ModMax theory. We analyze…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-07 Hamza Rehman , Sanjar Shaymatov , Tao Zhu

We study the secular periodic evolution of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) for GSN069 and eRO-QPE2 assuming that they are driven by star-disc collisions. We set up numerical simulations and compared them with the observed periodic decay of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Jiajun Xian , Fupeng Zhang , Liming Dou , Zhining Chen

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), which are a new kind of X-ray bursts with a recurrence time of several hours, have been detected from supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. Recently, the two QPEs discovered by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Z. Y. Zhao , Y. Y. Wang , Y. C. Zou , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

``Quasi-periodic eruptions'' (QPE) are recurrent nuclear transients with periods of several hours to almost a day, which thus far have been detected exclusively in the X-ray band. We have shown that many of the key properties of QPE flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-29 Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring X-ray bursts originating from the vicinity of supermassive black holes, but their driving mechanisms remain under debate. This study analyzes new NICER observations of QPEs in Ansky (a transient…

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel mode of variability in nearby galactic nuclei whose origin remains unknown. Their multi-wavelength properties are poorly constrained, as studies have focused almost entirely on the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-24 Thomas Wevers , Muryel Guolo , Sean Lockwood , Andrew Mummery , Dheeraj R. Pasham , Riccardo Arcodia

A popular class of models for interpreting quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions from galactic nuclei (QPEs) invoke collisions between an object on an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. There…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Andrew Mummery