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We studied the aperiodic X-ray timing behaviour of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. The source was recently found to be the first accreting millisecond pulsar that shows the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kilohertz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. van Straaten , M. van der Klis , R. Wijnands

We suggest an explanation for the twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) based on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) oscillation modes in neutron star magnetospheres. Including the effect of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 Changsheng Shi , Xiang-Dong Li

Einstein's general relativity predicts that orbital motion of accreted gas approaching a neutron star (NS) in a NS low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) system occurs on a time scale proportional to the NS mass. Radiation of the gas accounts for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 Gabriel Török , Kateřina Goluchová , Eva Šrámková , Martin Urbanec , Odele Straub

We report a 325(-7, +8) day quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the X-ray emission of the blazar Mkn 421, based on data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The QPO is seen prominently in the ASM data (at least 15 cycles),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Evan Smith , Lani Oramas , Eric Perlman

We investigated the convexity of all type I X-ray bursts with millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) in 4U 1636-53 using archival observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. We found that, at a 3.5 $\sigma$ confidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 Ming Lyu , Mariano Mendez , Diego Altamirano , Guobao Zhang

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) discovered in soft-gamma repeaters (SGRs) are expected to help us to study the properties of matter in neutron stars. In earlier investigations, we identified the QPOs of frequencies below $\sim100$ Hz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Hajime Sotani , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

High frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) have been detected in microquasars and neutron star systems. The resonance model suggested by Kluzniak & Abramowicz (2000) explains twin QPOs as two weakly coupled nonlinear resonant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Paola Rebusco

The study of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of X-ray flux observed in the stellar-mass black hole binaries can provide a powerful tool for testing of the phenomena occurring in strong gravity regime. The high frequency (HF) QPOs usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Martin Kološ , Arman Tursunov , Zdeněk Stuchlík

Previous work on the sonic-point beat-frequency (SPBF) model of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in the X-ray flux from neutron stars in low-mass binary systems has shown that it naturally explains many properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederick K. Lamb , M. Coleman Miller

In this paper we propose a new model for quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) based on oscillating magnetohydrodynamic modes in neutron star magnetospheres. We argue that the interaction of the accretion disk with the magnetosphere can excite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vahid Rezania , John C. Samson

Using data obtained in 1994 June/July with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer deep survey photometer and in 2001 January with the Chandra X-ray Observatory Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrograph, we investigate the extreme-ultraviolet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christopher W. Mauche

We report the discovery, with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), of the first sub-millisecond oscillation found in a celestial X-ray source. The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) come from Sco X-1 and have a frequency of…

The presence of a kHz frequency in LMXBs has been expected from scaling laws, by analogy with the QPO phenomenon in HMXB X-ray pulsars. Interpretation of the two kHz frequencies, observed in accreting neutron stars, in terms of non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-13 Wlodek Kluzniak , Marek A. Abramowicz , William H. Lee

We study the energy-dependent time lags and rms fractional amplitude of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) of a group of neutron-star low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We find that for the lower kHz QPO the slope of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Valentina Peirano , Mariano Méndez

X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are a characteristic feature of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These oscillations have been studied for decades and revealed a rich and complex phenomenology that is still not fully understood.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 F. M. Vincentelli , N. Bollemeijer , A. Veledina , D. Altamirano , Q. Bu , F. Carotenuto , P. Casella , Y. Cavecchi , R. Ma , G. Marcel , G. Mastroserio , S. Motta , L. Zhang

The study of quasi-periodic oscillations in X-ray binaries provides valuable insights into the physics of accretion around compact objects. The M82 galaxy hosts two ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs), one of which is suspected to harbor an…

Using archival data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we study in a systematic way the variation of the quality factor and amplitude of the lower and upper kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in the low-mass X-ray binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Didier Barret , Jean-Francois Olive , M. Coleman Miller

We have analyzed ~600 ks of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z source GX 17+2. A study was performed of the properties of the noise components and quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as a…

The low frequency quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) are commonly observed during hard states of black hole binaries. Several studies have established various observational/empirical correlations between spectral parameters and QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Anjali Rao Jassal , Santosh V. Vadawale , Mithun N. P. S , Ranjeev Misra

We continue our earlier studies of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the power spectra of accreting, rapidly-rotating black holes that originate from the geometric "light echoes" of X-ray flares occurring within the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas , Gordon Stephenson
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