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Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) from low-mass galaxy centres may result from accretion from a white dwarf in a very eccentric orbit about the central massive black hole. Evolution under gravitational radiation losses reduces the separation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Andrew King

A suggested model for quasi--periodic eruptions (QPEs) from galaxy nuclei invokes a white dwarf in an eccentric orbit about the central massive black hole. I point out that the extreme mass ratio allows the presence of strong Lindblad…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Andrew King

I consider quasi--periodic eruptions (QPEs) from galaxy nuclei. All the known cases fit naturally into a picture of accretion from white dwarfs (WDs) in highly eccentric orbits about the central black holes which decay through gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-01 Andrew King

I consider the current sample of galaxy nuclei producing quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs). If the quasiperiod results from the orbital motion of a star around the central black hole, the dearth of associated black hole masses $\gtrsim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-16 Andrew King

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are rapid, recurring X-ray bursts from supermassive black holes, believed to result from interactions between accretion disks and surrounding matter. The galaxy SDSS1335+0728, previously stable for two…

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeated X-ray flares from galactic nuclei. Despite some diversity in the recurrence and amplitude of eruptions, their striking regularity has motivated theorists to associate QPEs with orbital systems.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 R. Arcodia , I. Linial , G. Miniutti , A. Franchini , M. Giustini , M. Bonetti , A. Sesana , R. Soria , J. Chakraborty , M. Dotti , E. Kara , A. Merloni , G. Ponti , F. Vincentelli

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 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

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

Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel class of transients recently discovered in a few extragalactic nuclei. It has been suggested that a QPE can be produced by a main-sequence star undergoing repeated partial disruptions by the tidal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Chunyang Cao , F. K. Liu , Xian Chen , Shuo Li

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…

Recent discoveries from time-domain surveys are defying our expectations for how matter accretes onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). The increased rate of short-timescale, repetitive events around SMBHs, including the newly-discovered…

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of galaxies. Their physical origin is currently a subject of debate, with models typically invoking an orbiter around a massive black hole or disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-04 Dheeraj Pasham , Shubham Kejriwal , Eric Coughlin , Vojtěch Witzany , Alvin J. K. Chua , Michal Zajaček , Thomas Wevers , Yukta Ajay

Quasi-periodic Eruptions (QPEs) represent a novel class of extragalactic X-ray transients that are known to repeat at roughly regular intervals of a few hours to days. Their underlying physical mechanism is a topic of heated debate, with…

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,…

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring X-ray bursts originating from the vicinity of supermassive black holes, but their driving mechanisms remain under debate. This study analyzes new NICER observations of QPEs in Ansky (a transient…

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

We report the first direct measurement of the period derivative in a quasi-periodic eruption (QPE), finding a smoothly increasing period with $\dot{P}\approx (1.7\pm 0.02)\times10^{-2}$ d d$^{-1}$ in the source ZTF19acnskyy/"Ansky". Most…

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…

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