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Multi-wavelength extragalactic nuclear transients, particularly those detectable as multi-messengers, are among the primary drivers for the next-generation observatories. X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are the most recent and perhaps…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 R. Arcodia , A. Merloni , J. Buchner , P. Baldini , G. Ponti , A. Rau , Z. Liu , K. Nandra , M. Salvato

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeating soft X-ray bursts from the nuclei of galaxies, tantalizingly proposed to be extreme mass ratio inspirals. Here, we report the discovery of a new galaxy showing X-ray QPEs, the fifth found…

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

Accreting neutron stars exhibit pulsed X-rays and complex temporal variability across multi-wavelengths and different timescales. This variability could be driven by various physical processes including instability or inhomogeneous motions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Wen Yang , Wei Wang

Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions (QPEs) are a new class of repeating nuclear transient in which repeating X-ray flares are observed coming from the nuclei of generally low mass galaxies. Here we present a comprehensive summary of the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 A. J. Goodwin , R. Arcodia , G. Miniutti , J. C. A Miller-Jones , S. van Velzen

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts from the nuclei of nearby galaxies. Their physical origin is still largely unconstrained, and several theoretical models have been proposed to date. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 G. Miniutti , M. Giustini , R. Arcodia , R. D. Saxton , J. Chakraborty , A. M. Read , E. Kara

Quasi-Periodic Erupters (QPEs) are a remarkable class of objects exhibiting very large amplitude quasi-periodic X-ray flares. Although numerous dynamical models have been proposed to explain them, relatively little attention has been given…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 Julian H. Krolik , Itai Linial

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a class of X-ray flaring phenomena that occur at the centers of galactic nuclei and are likely to arise from repeated interactions between a star and an accretion disk. This work investigates whether such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Zhi-peng Ma , Kai Wang

The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer observed the soft X-Ray transient Aql X-1 during its outburst in February and March 1997. We report the discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in its persistent flux with frequencies in the range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Zhang , K. Jahoda , R. L. Kelley , T. E. Strohmayer J. H. Swank , S. N. Zhang

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

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

The discovery of quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) in the X-ray emission accompanying the giant flares of the soft gamma-ray repeaters SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14 has led to intense speculation about their nature and what they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 M. Coleman Miller , Cecilia Chirenti , Tod Strohmayer

The dramatic discovery with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite of remarkably coherent $\sim$300--1200 Hz oscillations in the X-ray brightness of some sixteen neutron stars in low-mass binary systems has spurred theoretical modeling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Frederick K. Lamb , M. Coleman Miller , Dimitrios Psaltis

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

One of the most dramatic discoveries made with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer is that many accreting neutron stars in low-mass binary systems produce strong, remarkably coherent, high-frequency X-ray brightness oscillations. The 325-1200…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederick K. Lamb , M. Coleman Miller , Dimitrios Psaltis

Since EXOSAT produced the first good quality X-ray light curves of Seyfert galaxies there have been several claims of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). None of these have withstood repeated analyses and observations. We review some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Vaughan , P. Uttley

``Quasi-periodic eruptions'' (QPE) are recurrent nuclear transients with periods of several hours to almost a day, which thus far have been detected exclusively in the X-ray band. We have shown that many of the key properties of QPE flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-29 Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger

We propose that the recently observed quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) in galactic nuclei are produced by unstable mass transfer due to Roche lobe overflow of a low-mass main-sequence star in a mildly eccentric (e ~ 0.5) orbit. We argue that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Wenbin Lu , Eliot Quataert

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are an extreme X-ray variability phenomenon associated with low-mass supermassive black holes. First discovered in the nucleus of the galaxy GSN 069, they have been so far securely detected in five other…

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