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Periodic outbursts are observed in many AGNs and usually explained with a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) scenario. However, multiple periods are observed in some AGNs and cannot be explained with it. Here we analyze the periodicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. K. Liu , G. Zhao , Xue-Bing Wu

Astronomy is presently experiencing profound growth in the deployment of machine learning to explore large datasets. However, transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) which appear in power density spectra of many X-ray binary system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Thaddaeus J. Kiker , James F. Steiner , Cecilia Garraffo , Mariano Mendez , Liang Zhang

We present a model-independent analysis of the short-timescale energy dependence of low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the X-ray flux of GRS 1915+105. The QPO frequency in this source has previously been observed to depend…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Jakob van den Eijnden , Adam Ingram , Phil Uttley

We have discovered rapid Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in RXTE/PCA measurements of the pulsating tail of the 27th December 2004 giant flare of SGR 1806-20. QPOs at about 92.5Hz are detected in a 50s interval starting 170s after the…

We present the results of the analysis of a large database of X-ray observations of 22 galactic black-hole transients with the Rossi X-Ray timing explorer throughout its operative life for a total exposure time of ~12 Ms. We excluded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Tomaso M. Belloni , Andrea Sanna , Mariano Mendez

We study energy dependencies of quasi-periodic oscillations from a number of black hole X-ray binaries. The selected sources were observed by RXTE at time periods close to state transitions and showed QPO in the 1-10 Hz range. We have…

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

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Czerny , P. Lachowicz , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , T. Pechacek , Tapas Kumar Das

Compact object systems exhibit Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) as revealed by peaked features in their power density spectra. It has been known that stochastic variations in the accretion disc will propagate to the corona after a time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

Black hole and neutron star X-ray binary systems routinely show quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in their X-ray flux. Despite being strong, easily measurable signals, their physical origin has long remained elusive. However, recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Adam Ingram , Sara Motta

The two galactic `microquasars' with superluminal radio jets have been quite active during 1996, generatinga variety of studies involving both NASA and ground-based observatories. GRS~1915+105 has displayed dramatic accretion instability in…

Previous analysis of AstroSat observations of the black hole system MAXI J1535-571, have revealed the presence of a strong Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) whose frequency is correlated with the high energy spectral index. Here, we fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

We present a detailed study of the 5 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) recently discovered in the bright X-ray transient and black-hole candidate GRS 1739-278 (Borozdin & Trudolyubov 2000) during a Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rudy Wijnands , Mariano Mendez , Jon M. Miller , Jeroen Homan

Twin quasi-periodic millisecond modulations of the X-ray flux (kHz QPOs) have recently been reported from an accreting 2.5 ms X-ray pulsar. We identify modes of disk oscillations whose frequencies are in agreement with the observed ones…

We report the discovery of the correlated optical/X-ray low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole binary SWIFT J1753.5-0127. The phase lag between two light-curves at the QPO frequency is close to zero. This result puts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Alexandra Veledina , Mikhail G. Revnivtsev , Martin Durant , Poshak Gandhi , Juri Poutanen

We have detected quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) near 1 kHz from the low mass X-ray binary 4U 0614+091 in observations with XTE. The observations span several months and sample the source over a large range of X-ray luminosity. In every…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Ford , P. Kaaret , M. Tavani , D. Barret , P. Bloser , J. Grindlay , B. A. Harmon , W. S. Paciesas , S. N. Zhang

We report the detection of millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations ($\mathrm{mHz}$ QPOs) from the low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701$-$462. The discovery came from a search of the legacy data set of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, in order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-15 Kaho Tse , Duncan K. Galloway , Alexander Heger

We report on the timing analysis of RXTE observations of the Galactic micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 performed in 2003. Out of a total of six times ~20 ks, we focus here only on the three observations during which GRS 1915+105 is found in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Rodriguez , S. Corbel , D. C. Hannikainen , T. Belloni , A. Paizis , O. Vilhu

High-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) appear in general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetically choked accretion flows around rapidly rotating black holes (BHs). We perform polarized radiative transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Jonathan C. McKinney

The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in the X-ray variability of both black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) systems provide a tool for probing strong gravity and dense matter equations of state. Nevertheless, the mechanism of QPO…

We present O$-$C (``observed minus calculated'') timing analysis of the quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) source eRO-QPE2 with a multi-mission X-ray campaign, which includes 32 observed eruptions spanning a month (i.e. 325 QPE cycles). In…