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We report the discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) at ~11 mHz in two RXTE observations and one Chandra observation of the black hole candidate H1743-322. The QPO is observed only at the beginning of the 2010 and 2011 outbursts at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Diego Altamirano , Tod Strohmayer

High frequency soft reverberation lags have now been detected from stellar mass and super massive black holes. Their interpretation involves reflection of a hard source of photons onto an accretion disk, producing a delayed reflected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Didier Barret

Many Galactic black hole and neutron star sources in low X-ray mass binaries show QPOs (quasi periodic oscillations) in their observed X-ray fluxes, i.e. peaks in the Fourier variability power spectra. Pairs of twin peaks are observed, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek A. Abramowicz , Wlodek Kluzniak , Zdenek Stuchlik , Gabriel Torok

We try to understand the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in low-mass neutron-star and black-hole X-ray binaries by a resonance model in warped disks with precession. Our main concern is high-frequency QPOs, hectohertz QPOs, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shoji Kato

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…

The remarkable discovery of kilohertz quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) in the accretion-powered emission from some sixteen neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary systems has led to much speculation about and theoretical modeling of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Coleman Miller

High-frequency twin peak quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in four microquasars, i.e., Galactic black hole binary systems, with frequency ratio very close to 3:2. In the microquasar GRS 1915+105, the structure of QPOs exhibits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 Zdenek Stuchlik , Andrea Kotrlova , Gabriel Torok

Twin-peak quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in several low-mass X-ray binary systems containing neutron stars (NSs). Timing analysis of X-ray fluxes of more than dozen of such systems reveals remarkable correlations between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Gabriel Török , Kateřina Goluchová , Eva Šrámková , Jiří Horák , Pavel Bakala , Martin Urbanec

Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) are believed to originate from the orbital timescales of the inner accretion flow, reflecting the dynamics of the innermost disk regions under strong gravitational forces. Despite numerous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Suchismito Chattopadhyay , Soma Mandal , Ranjeev Misra

Recent observations of accreting black holes reveal the presence of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in the optical power density spectra. The corresponding oscillation periods match those found in the X-rays, implying a common origin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-25 Alexandra Veledina , Juri Poutanen , Adam Ingram

We suggest a possible explanation for the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole low mass X-ray binaries. By solving the perturbation general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic equations, we find two stable modes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Chang-Sheng Shi , Xiang-Dong Li

The high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) that appear in the X-ray fluxes of low-mass X-ray binaries remain an unexplained phenomenon. Among other ideas, it has been suggested that a non-linear resonance between two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Martin Urbanec , Gabriel Torok , Eva Sramkova , Petr Cech , Zdenek Stuchlik , Pavel Bakala

In the context of a relativistic hot spot model, we investigate different physical mechanisms to explain the behavior of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from accreting black holes. The locations and amplitudes of the QPO peaks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman

A number of black hole X-ray transients show quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the optical (ultraviolet) and X-ray bands at the same frequency, which challenge models for production of radiation at these wavelengths. We propose a model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Alexandra Veledina , Juri Poutanen

We suggest a plausible interpretation for the twin kiloHertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. We identify the upper kHz QPO frequencies to be the rotational frequency and the lower kHz QPOs the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. -D. Li , C. -M. Zhang

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

We present a systematic study of the orbital inclination effects on black-hole transients fast time-variability properties. We have considered all the black-hole binaries that have been densely monitored by the Rossi XTE satellite. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 S. E. Motta , P. Casella , M. Henze , T. Muñoz-Darias , A. Sanna , R. Fender , T. Belloni

Quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) has been detected in several accreting supermassive black hole (SMBH) systems, including active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and tidal disruption events (TDEs). However, despite that several models have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-16 Yiyang Lin , Erlin Qiao , Jifeng Liu , Meng Guo , Zikun Lin

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

We study the dependence of kHz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) frequency on accretion-related parameters in the ensemble of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. Based on the mass accretion rate, $\dot{M}$, and the magnetic field strength,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 M. Hakan Erkut , Şivan Duran , Önder Çatmabacak , Onur Çatmabacak