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X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are discovered recently in active galaxies with unknown driven mechanism. Under the assumption that QPEs are caused by star-disc collisions, we adopt full relativistic method and show that both the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-25 Jingtao Xian , Fupeng Zhang , Liming Dou , Jiasheng He , Xinwen Shu

In the context of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (HF QPOs) we further explore the appearance of an observable signal generated by hot spots moving along quasi-elliptic trajectories close to the innermost stable circular orbit in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-24 V. Karas , P. Bakala , G. Torok , M. Dovciak , M. Wildner , D. Wzientek , E. Sramkova , M. A. Abramowicz , K. Goluchova , G. P. Mazur , F. H. Vincent

Kilo-Hertz (kHz) Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) have been discovered in the X-ray fluxes of 8 low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The characteristics of these QPOs are remarkably similar from one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Zhang , T. E. Strohmayer , J. H. Swank

In previous papers we proposed a model that high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in black-hole and neutron-star X-ray binaries are disk oscillations (inertial-acoustic and/or g-mode oscillations) resonantly excited on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shoji Kato

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) detected in the 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20 are often interpreted as global magneto-elastic oscillations of the neutron star. There is, however, a large discrepancy between theoretical models, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Daniela Huppenkothen , Anna L. Watts , Yuri Levin

We show that a luminous torus in the Schwarzschild metric oscillating along its own axis gives rise to a periodically varying flux of radiation, even though the source of radiation is steady and perfectly axisymmetric. This implies that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. Bursa , M. A. Abramowicz , V. Karas , W. Kluzniak

Observations with RXTE have revealed kilohertz quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) from nearly twenty different neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These frequencies often appear as a pair of kilohertz QPOs in a given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Coleman Miller

We investigate marginally stable nuclear burning on the surface of accreting neutron stars as an explanation for the mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed from three low mass X-ray binaries. At the boundary between unstable and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Alexander Heger , Andrew Cumming , Stanford E. Woosley

We present recent results of 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulations of neutron stars with small misalignment angles, as regards the features in lightcurves produced by regular movements of the hot spots during accretion onto the star. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-05 Matteo Bachetti , Marina Romanova , Akshay Kulkarni , Luciano Burderi , Tiziana di Salvo

High frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) appear in the X-ray variability of several accreting low-mass binaries. In a series of works it was suggested that these QPOs may have connection to inhomogeneities orbiting close to an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Bakala , G. Torok , V. Karas , M. Dovciak , M. Wildner , D. Wzientek , E. Sramkova , M. Abramowicz , K. Goluchova , G. P. Mazur , F. H. Vincent

One prominent model for quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) is that they originate from extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) involving stellar-mass objects orbiting around massive black holes and colliding with their accretion disks. We compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Leif Lui , Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Rudrani Kar Chowdhury , Lixin Dai

Observations of X-ray emissions from binary systems have always been considered important tools to test the validity of General Relativity in strong-field regimes. The pairs and triplets of high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Rezzolla

The fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) are a new population of extragalactic transients of unclear physical origin. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed including failed supernova explosion, shock interaction with a dense medium,…

We report the discovery of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the power spectrum of the X-ray nova MAXI J1535-571 at the initial stage of its outburst in September 2017. Based on data from the SWIFT and INTEGRAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-18 I. A. Mereminskiy , S. A. Grebenev , A. V. Prosvetov , A. N. Semena

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

It has recently been suggested that the maximum observed quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) frequencies, $\nu_{max}$, for several low-mass X-ray binaries, particularly 4U 1820-30, correspond to the orbital frequency at the inner-most stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Lai , Richard Lovelace , Ira Wasserman

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 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

Several low--mass galaxy nuclei are observed to produce quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs). Recently one of these systems, 1ES~1927+654, changed its quasiperiod drastically, from $\sim 18$ minutes to $\sim 7.1$ minutes, over a span of just two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Andrew King

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