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We analyze the time variability of the X-ray emission of RE J1034+396, an active galactic nucleus with the first firm detection of a quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO). Based on the results of a wavelet analysis, we find a drift in the QPO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Czerny , P. Lachowicz , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , T. Pechacek , Tapas K. Das

X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are a characteristic feature of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These oscillations have been studied for decades and revealed a rich and complex phenomenology that is still not fully understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 F. M. Vincentelli , N. Bollemeijer , A. Veledina , D. Altamirano , Q. Bu , F. Carotenuto , P. Casella , Y. Cavecchi , R. Ma , G. Marcel , G. Mastroserio , S. Motta , L. Zhang

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

Observations from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer have shown the existence of high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) in the X-ray flux from accreting black hole binary systems. In at least two systems, these HFQPOs come in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Edmund Bertschinger

Low Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations or LF QPOs are ubiquitous in BH X-ray binaries and provide strong constraints on the accretion-ejection processes. Although several models have been proposed so far, none has been proven to…

We report on the numerical discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) associated with accretion through a non-axisymmetric magnetic boundary layer in the unstable regime, when two ordered equatorial streams form and rotate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. M. Romanova , A. K. Kulkarni

X-ray radiation from black hole binary (BHB) systems regularly displays quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). In principle, a number of suggested physical mechanisms can reproduce their power spectral properties, thus more powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis

Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) have been detected in many accreting X-ray binaries. It has been suggested that the highest QPO frequencies observed in the modulation of the X-ray flux reflect a non-linear resonance between two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gabriel Torok , Marek A. Abramowicz , Wlodek Kluzniak , Zdenek Stuchlik

While the dynamical origin of the variability observed in Galactic Black hole systems, such as quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), are still a matter of debate, insight into the radiative components responsible for such behaviour can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

We continue our earlier studies of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the power spectra of accreting, rapidly-rotating black holes that originate from the geometric "light echoes" of X-ray flares occurring within the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas , Gordon Stephenson

Using data from Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM, we report the first detection of a high-confidence quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the thermal emission of gamma-ray burst GRB~240825A. The spectral analysis of the burst reveals two radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-23 Guo-Yu Li , Da-Bin Lin , Zhi-Lin Chen , Bao-Quan Huang , Tong Liu , En-Wei Liang

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

Microquasars are the compact objects generally including accreting black holes which produce relativistic jets. The physical mechanisms of jet launching, collimation, and acceleration are poorly understood. Microquasars show strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Wei Wang

The high time resolution and large area of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have been essential in the detection and characterization of high-frequency quasi-periodic variability in the flux from neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries. An…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Coleman Miller

While there has been an increase in interest in the possibility of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in blazars, the search has hitherto been restricted to sources with well-sampled light curves. Objects with light curves that include gaps…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 M. A. Hashad , Amr A. El-Zant , Y. Abdou , H. M. Badran

We have detected large-amplitude 0.3-1.2 mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from the low-mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1626-67/KZ TrA, using UV photometry from HST and ground-based optical photometry. These 1 mHz QPOs, which have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Deepto Chakrabarty , Lee Homer , Philip A. Charles , Darragh O'Donoghue

X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are commonly observed in Galactic X-ray binaries (XRBs) and extragalactic ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). In this study, we perform a phase-resolved analysis of recently discovered X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Qingcang Shui , Shu Zhang , Hua Feng , Yupeng Chen , Shuangnan Zhang , Jingqiang Peng

The physical origin of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in blazars remains debated, with geometric and plasma-driven scenarios as the main competing interpretations. Discriminating between them requires probing variability beyond flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Elena Madero , Alberto Domínguez

In this manuscript, optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with 550 day periodicity related to a candidate of sub-pc binary black hole (BBH) system are reported in the reverberation mapped broad line quasar PG 1411+442 but with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-23 XueGuang Zhang

We show that the galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 exhibits quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) whose frequency varies continuously from 1-15 Hz, during spectrally hard dips when the source is in a flaring state. We report here analyses of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Craig B. Markwardt , Jean H. Swank , Ronald E. Taam
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