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Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are coherent peaks of variability power observed in the X-ray power spectra (PSDs) of stellar mass X-ray binaries (XRBs). A scale invariance of the accretion process implies they should be present in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 William Alston , Andy Fabian , Julija Markeviciute , Michael Parker , Matt Middleton , Erin Kara

This study aims to detect and characterize quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) signals in X-ray observations of NGC 4151. We employed the Weighted Wavelet Z-transform (WWZ) and Lomb-Scargle periodogram (LSP) methods for our analysis. QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-25 Yan Yongkang , Zhang Peng , Lu Zhou , Bao Tong , Liu Dejian , Liu Gaochao , Liu Qingzhong , Yan Jingzhi , Zeng Xiangyun

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

In the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 766, a Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) signal with a period of $\sim6450$ s is detected in the \emph{XMM-Newton} data collected on 2005 May 31. This QPO signal is highly statistical significant at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Peng Zhang , Peng-fei Zhang , Jing-zhi Yan , Yi-zhong Fan , Qing-zhong Liu

In the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495, recently a transient quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signal with a frequency of $\sim 2.6\times 10^{-4}$ Hz has been detected at a high statistical significance. Here, we reanalyze the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Peng-Fei Zhang , Peng Zhang , Neng-Hui Liao , Jing-Zhi Yan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Qing-Zhong Liu

Following our previous work of Lachowicz & Czerny (2005), we explore further the application of the continuous wavelet transform to X-ray astronomical signals. Using the public archive of the XMM-Newton satellite, we analyze all available…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pawel Lachowicz , Bozena Czerny , Marek A. Abramowicz

We report the discovery of a $\sim 1.5 \times 10^{-4}$ Hz ($\sim 2$ hr) X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the active galaxy MS 2254.9-3712, using a $\sim 70$ ks XMM-Newton observation. The QPO is significantly detected ($\sim 3.3…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 W. N. Alston , M. L. Parker , J. Markeviciute , A. C. Fabian , M. Middleton , A. Lohfink , E. Kara , C. Pinto

Here we report an optical quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with a period of $\sim$134~day detected in g- and r-band light curves of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy TXS 1206+549 at redshift of 1.34 with the data from the Zwicky Transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Chongyang Ren , Sisi Sun , Pengfei Zhang

We found a possible ~ 1 hour quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in a ~ 55 ks X-ray observation of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG--06--30--15 made with the XMM-Newton EPIC/pn detector in the energy range 0.3 -- 10 keV. We identify a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-07 Alok C. Gupta , Ashutosh Tripathi , Paul J. Wiita , Minfeng Gu , Cosimo Bambi , Luis C. Ho

We apply the global mode analysis, which has been recently developed for the modeling of kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from neutron stars, to the inner region of an accretion disk around a rotating black hole. Within a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-07 M. H. Erkut

Following the discovery of 3:2 resonance quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in M82X-1 (Pasham et al. 2014), we have constructed power density spectra (PDS) of all 15 (sufficiently long) {\it XMM-Newton} observations of the ultraluminous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Dheeraj R. Pasham , S. Bradley Cenko , Abderahmen Zoghbi , Richard F. Mushotzky , Jon Miller , Francesco Tombesi

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

The X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at $\sim 2.6 \times 10^{-4}$ Hz in RE J1034+396 has been robustly observed in the 0.2-10 keV band of one $\sim 90$ ks XMM-Newton observation, but was not detected in subsequent observations. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-10 W. N. Alston , J. Markevičiūtė , E. Kara , A. C. Fabian , M. Middleton

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) at frequencies near 1000 Hz were recently discovered in several x-ray binaries containing neutron stars. Two sources show no correlation between QPO frequency and source count rate (Berger et al. 1996,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Philip Kaaret , Eric Ford , Kaiyou Chen

RE J1034+396 is a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy (NLS1) in which the first significant X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in an active galactic nuclei (AGN) was observed in 2007. We report the detection of this QPO in a recent XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Chichuan Jin , Chris Done , Martin Ward

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

We report evidence for a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the optical light curve of KIC 9650712, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy in the original Kepler field. After the development and application of a pipeline for Kepler data specific…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 Krista Lynne Smith , Richard F. Mushotzky , Patricia T. Boyd , Robert V. Wagoner

The Seyfert 1 galaxy J1626+5120 is estimated to host a $10^8 M_{\odot}$ black hole (BH) accreting at Eddington ratio $\dot{m}_{\text{Edd}} \approx 0.043$. Its long-term multi-band light curve data show flicker-like variations, but in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-29 Litao Zhu , Zhongxiang Wang , Dong Zheng , Alok C. Gupta , Ju-Jia 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 report the detection of high frequency variability in the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1650-500. A quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) was found at 250 Hz during a transition from the hard to the soft state. We also detected less…

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