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Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. Though the debates on the origin of QPEs have not completely settled down, more and more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Cong Zhou , Binyu Zhong , Yuhe Zeng , Lei Huang , Zhen Pan

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) represent a recently discovered example of extreme X-ray variability associated with supermassive black holes. These are high-amplitude bursts recurring every few hours that are detected in the soft…

Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are luminous, recurring X-ray outbursts from galactic nuclei, with timescales of hours to days. While their origin remains uncertain, leading models invoke accretion disk instabilities or the interaction of a…

Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are luminous X-ray outbursts recurring on hour timescales, observed from the nuclei of a growing handful of nearby low-mass galaxies. Their physical origin is still debated, and usually modeled as (a)…

Quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) sources in galactic nuclei are often associated with a stellar object orbiting a supermassive black hole with hours-days period, brought in as an extreme mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI). In the presence of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger , Eliot Quataert

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 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

We study the secular periodic evolution of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) for GSN069 and eRO-QPE2 assuming that they are driven by star-disc collisions. We set up numerical simulations and compared them with the observed periodic decay of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-09 Jiajun Xian , Fupeng Zhang , Liming Dou , Zhining Chen

Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) display correlated long/short and strong/weak patterns that remain unexplained by existing flat-disk collision models. We propose that these features arise from an extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) colliding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Bo-An Chen , Bei You , Giovanni Miniutti , Ning Jiang , Zhen Pan , Tao Yang , Xi-Long Fan , Kai Liao , Xu-Heng Ding , Zong-Hong Zhu , Shuai-Kang Yang , Sai-En Xu , Han He , Xiao Fan

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

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. More and more analyses show that (at least a fraction of) QPEs are the result of collisions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-31 Cong Zhou , Zhen Pan , Ning Jiang , Wen Zhao

A modest fraction of the stars in galactic nuclei fed towards the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) approach on low-eccentricity orbits driven by gravitational-wave radiation (extreme mass ratio inspiral, EMRI). In the likely event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Itai Linial , Brian D. Metzger

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

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense soft X-ray bursts from the nuclei of nearby low-mass galaxies typically lasting about one hour and repeating every few. Their physical origin remains debated, although so-called impacts…

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

Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are extreme high-amplitude bursts of X-ray radiation recurring every few hours and originating near the central supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei. It is currently unknown what triggers these events,…

We investigate the origins of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) in galactic nuclei using global three-dimensional meshless finite-mass (MFM) simulations. By modeling stellar and black-hole impactors traversing accretion disks under various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Kun Liu , Shang-Fei Liu , Zhen Pan , Hongping Deng , Rongfeng Shen , Cong Yu

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
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