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Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are X-ray transients characterized by nearly regular recurring flares from galactic nuclei. Recent observations have confirmed that some QPEs occur in galactic centers that experienced a tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Tomoya Suzuguchi , Tatsuya Matsumoto

X-ray Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered phenomenon associated with supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. They are high amplitude soft X-ray flares that recur on timescales of hours, but what causes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Joheen Chakraborty , Erin Kara , Megan Masterson , Margherita Giustini , Giovanni Miniutti , Richard Saxton

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring soft X-ray transients emerging from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in nearby, low-mass galaxy nuclei; about ten QPE hosts have been identified thus far. Here we report the…

Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered phenomenon, the nature of which remains unclear. Based on their discovery in active galactic nuclei (AGN), explanations related to an AGN accretion disk, or potentially stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 T. Wevers , D. R. Pasham , P. Jalan , S. Rakshit , R. Arcodia

Recent observations have confirmed the direct association between tidal disruption events (TDEs) and quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs). In addition, TDE hosts and QPE hosts are statistically found to be similar in their morphological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 Ning Jiang , Zhen Pan

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered class of highly variable X-ray bursts originating in galactic nuclei. These high-amplitude bursts exhibit periodicity ranging from tens of minutes to several days. QPEs are also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Martin Mondek , Michal Zajaček , Henry Best , Taj Jankovič , Vladimír Karas , Petr Kurfürst

Recent studies of Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) have revealed unexpected correlations between the TDE rate and the large-scale properties of the host galaxies. In this review, we present the host galaxy properties of all TDE candidates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-23 K. Decker French , Thomas Wevers , Jamie Law-Smith , Or Graur , Ann I. Zabludoff

In the past five years, six quasi-periodic X-ray eruption (QPE) sources have been discovered in the nuclei of nearby galaxies. Their origin remains an open question. We present MUSE integral field spectroscopy of five QPE host galaxies to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 T. Wevers , K. D. French , A. I. Zabludoff , T. Fischer , K. Rowlands , M. Guolo , B. Dalla Barba , R. Arcodia , M. Berton , F. Bian , I. Linial , G. Miniutti , D. R. Pasham

We explore the galaxy structure of four tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies on 30 pc to kpc scales using HST WFC3 multi-band imaging. The star formation histories of these hosts are diverse, including one post-starburst galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 K. Decker French , Iair Arcavi , Ann I. Zabludoff , Nicholas Stone , Daichi Hiramatsu , Sjoert van Velzen , Curtis McCully , Ning Jiang

We study the properties of tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies in the context of a catalog of ~500,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We explore whether selection effects can account for the overrepresentation of TDEs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-16 Jamie Law-Smith , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Sara L. Ellison , Ryan J. Foley

A popular class of models for interpreting quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions from galactic nuclei (QPEs) invoke collisions between an object on an extreme mass ratio inspiral (EMRI) and an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. There…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 Andrew Mummery

Quasi Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are luminous bursts of soft X-rays recently discovered in galactic nuclei. They repeat on timescales of hours to weeks, superimposed to an otherwise stable quiescent X-ray level, consistent with emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-04 Chiara Maria Allievi , Luca Broggi , Alberto Sesana , Matteo Bonetti

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are found in the center of five galaxies, where a tidal disruption event (TDE)-like event is also reported in GSN 069 that happened a couple of years before the QPEs. We explain the connection of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Mengye Wang , Jinjing Yin , Yiqiu Ma , Qingwen Wu

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), which are a new kind of X-ray bursts with a recurrence time of several hours, have been detected from supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei. Recently, the two QPEs discovered by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Z. Y. Zhao , Y. Y. Wang , Y. C. Zou , F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai

Roughly half of the quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) sources in galactic nuclei exhibit a remarkably regular alternating "long-short'' pattern of recurrence times between consecutive flares. We show that a main-sequence star (brought into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-06 Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few to ten hours from nearby galactic nuclei. The origin of QPEs is still unclear. In this work, we investigated the extreme mass ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Cong Zhou , Lei Huang , Kangrou Guo , Ya-Ping Li , Zhen Pan

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are rare and enigmatic phenomena that increasingly show a connection to tidal disruption events (TDEs). However, the recently discovered QPEs in ZTF19acnskyy ("Ansky") appear to be linked to an active…

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurrent X-ray bursts found so far in the nuclei of low-mass galaxies. Their trigger mechanism is still unknown, but recent models involving one or two stellar-mass companions around the central massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 R. Arcodia , G. Miniutti , G. Ponti , J. Buchner , M. Giustini , A. Merloni , K. Nandra , F. Vincentelli , E. Kara , M. Salvato , D. Pasham

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are transient events observed when a star passes close enough to a supermassive black hole to be tidally destroyed. Many TDE candidates have been discovered in host galaxies whose spectra have weak or no line…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-12 K. Decker French , Iair Arcavi , Ann Zabludoff
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