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Recent X-ray observations have revealed growing evidence of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the light curve of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which may serve as a useful probe of black hole physics. In this work, we present a systematic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-12 Tong Bao , Zhiyuan Li

We report here discovery of Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) Pulsar XTE J0111.20-7317 during a transient outburst in this source in December 1998. Using observations made with the proportional counter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Ramanpreet Kaur , Biswajit Paul , Harsha Raichur , Ram Sagar

Blazar gamma-ray variability is predominantly stochastic and well described by red-noise processes. However, a subset of sources shows quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) on year-long timescales, whose physical origin remains debated. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 Alberto Domínguez , Adithiya Dinesh , Elena Madero

We present a study on the detection and characterization of transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the $\gamma$-ray emission of blazars 4C +31.03, MG1 J123931+0443, and PKS 1622$-$253. Using light curves derived from \textit{Fermi}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 P. Penil , J. Otero-Santos , A. Circiello , A. Banerjee , S. Buson , A. Rico , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari

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

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

We report the detection of mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in four NuSTAR observations of 4U 1626-67 during its recent spin-down episode. By using a novel method based on the Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT), we present the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-14 Zi-Yi Zhou , Long Ji , Ling-Da Kong , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Qing-Cang Shui , Lian Tao

Evidence for the presence of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the optical polarization of the blazar PKS 2155-304, during a period of enhanced gamma-ray brightness, is presented. The periodogram of the polarized flux revealed the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 N. W. Pekeur , A. R. Taylor , S. B. Potter , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg

The black hole X-ray binary GX\,339-4 showed an X-ray outburst during 2021. The {\it AstroSat} captured this outburst when the source entered into the intermediate flux state while the count rate was declining. The source showed an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-09 Santanu Mondal , Anirudh Salgundi , Debjit Chatterjee , Arghajit Jana , H. -K. Chang , Sachindra Naik

We present evidence for Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the recurrent outburst activity from SGR 1806-20 using Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations during November 1996. Searching for QPOs in a sample of 30 bursts at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-24 Ahmed M. El-Mezeini , Alaa I. Ibrahim

We analyze a set of three RXTE Target of Opportunity observations of the Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105, observed on April 2000, during a multi-wavelength campaign. During the three observations, a strong, variable low frequency (2-9 Hz)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Rodriguez , Ph. Durouchoux , I. F. Mirabel , Y. Ueda , M. Tagger , K. Yamaoka

This study explores the detection of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in blazars as a method to identify kink events within their jets, utilizing both $\gamma$-ray and polarized light observations. Focusing on a sample of 9 blazars, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 P. Peñil , H. Zhang , J. Otero-Santos , M. Ajello , S. Buson , S. Adhikari , A. Rico , J. Escudero Pedrosa , I. Agudo , D. Morcuende , A. Sota , V. Casanova , F. J. Aceituno

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

Based on the long-term light curves collected from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) (from 2005 to 2013) and the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) (from 2014 to 2018), optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) about 300 days…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Qi Zheng , Xueguang Zhang , Qirong Yuan

The active galactic nucleus (AGN) RE J1034+396 displays the most significant X-ray Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) detected so far. We perform a detailed spectral-timing analysis of our recent simultaneous XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and Swift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Chichuan Jin , Chris Done , Martin Ward

Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations or kHz QPOs occur on the orbital timescale of the inner accretion flow and may carry signatures of the physics of strong gravity (c$^{2}$ ~ GM/R) and possibly clues to constraining the neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-26 Jon Troyer , Edward Cackett , Philippe Peille , Didier Barret

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) have been widely observed in black hole X-ray binaries (BHBs), which often exhibit significant X-ray variations. Extensive research has explored the long-term evolution of the properties of QPOs in BHBs.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-11 Ruisong Xia , Hao Liu , Yongquan Xue

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

We present high-speed optical photometry from SAAO and SALT on the black hole LMXB \MAXI (ASSASN-18ey), some of it simultaneous with NICER, Swift and Insight-HXMT X-ray coverage. We detect optical Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) that…

Observations with RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer) revealed the presence of High Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (HFQPOs) of the X-ray flux from several accreting stellar mass Black Holes. HFQPOs (and their counterparts at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Janie K. Hoormann , Henric Krawczynski