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GSN 069 is the first galactic nucleus where quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) have been identified. These are high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts recurring every ~9 hr, lasting ~1 hr, and during which the X-ray count rate increases by up to two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 G. Miniutti , M. Giustini , R. Arcodia , R. D. Saxton , A. M. Read , S. Bianchi , K. D. Alexander

Following the recent discovery of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) coming from the nucleus of the galaxy GSN 069, here we report on the detection of QPEs in the active galaxy named RX J1301.9+2747. QPEs are rapid and recurrent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Margherita Giustini , Giovanni Miniutti , Richard D. Saxton

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts recurring every few hours, associated with supermassive black holes. Many interpretations for QPEs were proposed since their recent discovery in 2019, including extreme…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 P. Kosec , E. Kara , L. Brenneman , J. Chakraborty , M. Giustini , G. Miniutti , C. Pinto , D. Rogantini , R. Arcodia , M. Middleton , A. Sacchi

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts from the nuclei of nearby galaxies. Their physical origin is still largely unconstrained, and several theoretical models have been proposed to date. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 G. Miniutti , M. Giustini , R. Arcodia , R. D. Saxton , J. Chakraborty , A. M. Read , E. Kara

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…

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 past five years, six quasi-periodic X-ray eruption (QPE) sources have been discovered in the nuclei of nearby galaxies. Their origin remains an open question. We present MUSE integral field spectroscopy of five QPE host galaxies to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-06 T. Wevers , K. D. French , A. I. Zabludoff , T. Fischer , K. Rowlands , M. Guolo , B. Dalla Barba , R. Arcodia , M. Berton , F. Bian , I. Linial , G. Miniutti , D. R. Pasham

Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered phenomenon, the nature of which remains unclear. Based on their discovery in active galactic nuclei (AGN), explanations related to an AGN accretion disk, or potentially stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 T. Wevers , D. R. Pasham , P. Jalan , S. Rakshit , R. Arcodia

GSN 069 is a recently discovered QPE (Quasi-periodic eruptions) source recurring about every 9 hours. The mechanism for the QPEs of GSN 069 is still unclear so far. In this work, a disk instability model is constructed to explain GSN 069…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Xin Pan , Shuang-Liang Li , Xinwu Cao , Giovanni Miniutti , Mingfeng Gu

GSN 069 is an ultra-soft X-ray active galactic nucleus that previously exhibited a huge X-ray outburst and a subsequent long-term decay. It has recently presented X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs). We report the detection of strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Zhenfeng Sheng , Tinggui Wang , Gary Ferland , Xinwen Shu , Chenwei Yang , Ning Jiang , Yang Chen

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

The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) found in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are a very interesting observational phenomenon implying an unknown physical mechanism around supermassive black holes. Several AGNs have been found to have QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Haoyang Zhang , Shenbang Yang , Benzhong Dai

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) from the galactic nucleus have been found in several galaxies. Among them, GSN 069 is the only one with a tidal disruption event (TDE), which was recently found to have brightened again 9 years after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-05 Di Wang

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a class of X-ray flaring phenomena that occur at the centers of galactic nuclei and are likely to arise from repeated interactions between a star and an accretion disk. This work investigates whether such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Zhi-peng Ma , Kai Wang

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are X-ray transients characterized by nearly regular recurring flares from galactic nuclei. Recent observations have confirmed that some QPEs occur in galactic centers that experienced a tidal disruption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Tomoya Suzuguchi , Tatsuya Matsumoto

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

The origins of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are poorly understood, although most theoretical explanations invoke an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole. The gas and stellar environments in the galactic nuclei of these sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Kishore C. Patra , Wenbin Lu , Yilun Ma , Eliot Quataert , Giovanni Miniutti , Marco Chiaberge , Alexei V. Filippenko

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are an extreme X-ray variability phenomenon associated with low-mass supermassive black holes. First discovered in the nucleus of the galaxy GSN 069, they have been so far securely detected in five other…

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
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