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We report an indication (3.22 sigma) of ~ 1860 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations from a neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-536. If confirmed, this will be by far the highest frequency feature observed from an accreting neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Sudip Bhattacharyya

We studied the correlations between spin frequencies and kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in neutron star low mass X-ray binaries. The updated data of kHz QPOs and spin frequencies are statistically analyzed. We found that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-28 H. X. Yin , C. M. Zhang , Y. H. Zhao , Y. J. Lei , J. L. Qu , L. M. Song , F. Zhang

KHz QPOs have now been detected in more than twenty accreting neutron stars in low-mass binary systems. Two kHz QPOs are usually detected in each star. Burst oscillations and two kHz QPOs have recently been detected in the 401 Hz…

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

We report the discovery of a third kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (kHz QPO) in the power spectra of the low-mass X-ray binaries 4U 1608-52 (6.3 sigma), 4U 1728-34 (6.0 sigma), and 4U 1636-53 (3.7 sigma) which is present simultaneously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter G. Jonker , Mariano Mendez , Michiel van der Klis

The Be X-ray Binary 4U 0115+63 was observed by Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) instrument on AstroSat on 2015 October 24 during the peak of a giant Type II outburst. Prominent intensity oscillations at ~ 1 and ~ 2 mHz…

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are coherent peaks of variability power observed in the X-ray power spectra (PSDs) of stellar mass X-ray binaries (XRBs). A scale invariance of the accretion process implies they should be present in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 William Alston , Andy Fabian , Julija Markeviciute , Michael Parker , Matt Middleton , Erin Kara

We report the discovery ($20\sigma$) of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) at ~ 690 Hz from the transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary EXO 1745-248. We find that this is a lower kHz QPO, and systematically study the time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Arunava Mukherjee , Sudip Bhattacharyya

Kilohertz-scale quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) are a distinct feature of the variability of neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. Among all the variability modes, they are especially interesting as a probe for the innermost parts of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-10 Pavel Abolmasov , Juri Poutanen

Rapid UBVRI photometry of this ultracompact LMXB pulsar has detected 7.67 s optical pulsations in all five bands. The optical pulsations, which are at the same frequency as the X-ray pulsations, are understood as reprocessing of pulsed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Deepto Chakrabarty

Based on the interpretation of the twin kilohertz Quasi Periodic Oscillations (kHz QPOs) of X-ray spectra of Low Mass X-Ray Binaries (LMXBs) to the Keplerian and the periastron precession frequencies at the magnetosphere-disk of X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. M. Zhang

We report on the detection of a kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Analyzing approximately 165 ks of NICER exposure on the X-ray burster 4U 0614+09, we detect multiple…

Context. Several instances of low frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) have been reported in ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs), including three in pulsating ones (PULXs) to date. The nature of many ULXs is still unclear, as are the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-05 Miljenko Čemeljić , Włodek Kluźniak , Sukalpa Kundu

We present new results based on observations carried out with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer during the decay of an outburst of the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) and atoll source 4U 1608-52. Our results appear to resolve, at least in 4U…

The discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in magnetar giant flares has opened up prospects for neutron star asteroseismology. The scarcity of giant flares makes a search for QPOs in the shorter, far more numerous bursts from Soft…

We report the discovery of kHz fluctuations, including quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) at ~330 Hz and ~760 Hz and a broadband kHz continuum in the power density spectrum of the high mass X-ray binary pulsar Centaurus X-3. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Garrett Jernigan , Richard I. Klein , Jonathan Arons

We report the discovery of coupling between periodic and aperiodic variability and ~12-mHz X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from the X-ray binary pulsar Her X-1 using data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. We found two different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dae-Sik Moon , Stephen S. Eikenberry

We present new Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1608-52 during the decay of its 1998 outburst. We detect by a direct FFT method the existence of a second kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (kHz QPO)…

We investigated the timing and spectral properties of the millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) in the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1608-52 using NICER observations. Our analysis reveals a correlation between the QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-13 Lyu Ming , Zhang Guobao , Mendez Mariano , Xiao Huaping

Using data obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, we report the detection of a 5 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the bright low-mass X-ray binary and Z source Cygnus X-2 during high overall intensities (the high intensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis

Starting from the observation that kilohertz Quasi Period Oscillations (kHz QPO) occur in a very narrow range of X-ray luminosities in neutron star low mass X-ray binaries, we try to link the kHz QPO observability to variations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergio Campana