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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

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) originating from innermost regions of blazars can provide unique perspective of some of the burning issues in blazar studies including disk-jet connection, launch of relativistic jets from the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Gopal Bhatta

We investigated the quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) features in the accretion-powered X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 observed by Insight-HXMT. For two observations in 2020 when Cen X-3 was in an extremely soft state, the power density spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Q. Liu , W. Wang , X. Chen , W. Yang , F. J. Lu , L. M. Song , J. L. Qu , S. Zhang , S. N. Zhang

We report the discovery of a ~6-week quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in archival NGC 4945 data observed by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. QPOs are an important observable in accretion disks and have been studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Evan Smith , Rebecca Robles , Eric Perlman

Study of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in blazars is one of the crucial methods for gaining insights into the workings of the central engines of active galactic nuclei. QPOs with various characteristic time scales have been observed in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Banerjee , Anuvab , Sharma , Ajay , Mnadal , Avijit , Das , Avik Kumar , Bhatta , Gopal , Bose , Debanjan

We report the detection ($>4\sigma$) of a Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) in the $\gamma$-ray light curve of 3C 454.3 along with a simultaneous marginal QPO detection ($>2.4\sigma$) in the optical light curves. Periodic flux modulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 Arkadipta Sarkar , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita

The X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) is a remarkable form of variability in systems of compact object accretion. RE J1034+396, harboring the most significant X-ray QPO in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), is the most noteworthy source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-10 Ruisong Xia , Hao Liu , Yongquan Xue

We investigate the possible presence of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signals in 2103 blazars from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) time-domain survey. We detect a low-frequency QPO signal in five blazars observed over these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Anuvab Banerjee , Vibhore Negi , Ravi Joshi , Nagendra Kumar , Paul J. Wiita , Hum Chand , Nikita Rawat , Xue-Bing Wu , Luis C. Ho

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) detected in the 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20 are often interpreted as global magneto-elastic oscillations of the neutron star. There is, however, a large discrepancy between theoretical models, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Daniela Huppenkothen , Anna L. Watts , Yuri Levin

We report the discovery of milli-hertz (mHz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and QPO-modulated pulsations during large X-ray flares from the high-mass X-ray binary pulsar LMC X-4 using data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dae-Sik Moon , Stephen. S. Eikenberry

We report the discovery of a 1mHz optical quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the candidate ultracompact low-mass X-ray binary 4U 0614+091. The ultra-low frequency QPO has no X-ray counterpart in contemporaneous RXTE/PCA data and is likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Y. Zhang , R. I. Hynes , E. L. Robinson

We analyzed 19 years of $R$-band data of the blazar 3C 454.3 from the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) archive, along with new data from its members and from public archives such as those provided by the Small and Moderate Aperture…

Long-term gamma-ray variability of a non-blazar Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) PKS 0521-36 is investigated by using Fermi-LAT pass 8 data covering from 2008 August to 2021 March. The results show that the histogram of the gamma-ray fluxes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Pengfei Zhang , Shenbang Yang , Li Zhang

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 report the detection of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at ~41 mHz in the transient high-mass Be/X-ray binary pulsar 4U~0115+634 using data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observatory. The observations used in the present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-16 Moti R. Dugair , Gaurava K. Jaisawal , Sachindra Naik , S. N. A. Jaaffrey

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

Quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) detected in the X-ray radiation of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) is thought to originate from dynamical processes in the close vicinity of the black holes (BHs), and thus carries important physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Hai-Wu Pan , Weimin Yuan , Su Yao , Xin-Lin Zhou , Bifang Liu , Hongyan Zhou , Shuang-Nan Zhang

We have carried out a systematic study of the properties of the kilo-Hertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) observed in the X-ray emission of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U1608-52, using archival data obtained with the Rossi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Barret , W. Kluzniak , J. F. Olive , S. Paltani , G. K. Skinner

We conducted a comprehensive variability analysis of the blazar PKS 2255-282 using Fermi-LAT observations spanning over four years, from MJD 57783.5 to 59358.5. Our analysis revealed a transient quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 Ajay Sharma , Anuvab Banerjee , Avik Kumar Das , Avijit Mandal , Debanjan Bose

We report the indication of a long-term quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the $\gamma$-ray emission of the BL Lac object 4FGL J1037.7+5711 (GB6 J1037+5711) using more than 17 years of monthly binned Fermi-LAT observations. Since blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Zahoor Malik , Sikandar Akbar , Zahir Shah , Seemin Rubab
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