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We explain the peak spacing in the power spectra of millisecond variability detected by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) in the X-ray emission from the LMXBs (Sco X-1, 4U1728-34, 4U1608-522, 4U1636-536, etc) in terms of the rotational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Titarchuk , Alex Muslimov

The kilohertz quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) discovered in several low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) are thought to occur at the orbital frequency in accretion discs whose inner edge corresponds to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Bulik , Dorota Gondek-Rosinska , Wlodzimierz Kluzniak

We analysed the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) data from a sample of bright accreting neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). With the aim of studying the quasi-periodic variability as a function of the accretion regime, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 S. E. Motta , A. Rouco-Escorial , E. Kuulkers , T. Muñoz-Darias , A. Sanna

We present the results of timing analysis of the low-frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) in the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer data of the black hole binary XTE J1550--564 during its 1998 outburst. The QPO frequency is observed to vary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Fengyun Rao , Tomaso Belloni , Luigi Stella , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Tipei Li

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), in particular, the ones with high frequencies, often observed in the power spectrum of black holes, are useful in understanding the nature of strong gravity since they are associated with the motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-27 Indrani Banerjee

Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are commonly observed in black hole X-ray binaries, and their frequency has been found to correlate with various spectral properties. In this work, we present a detailed timing analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Sai-En Xu , Bei You , Yi Long , Han He

The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole (BH) systems of different scales are interpreted based on the magnetic reconnection of the large-scale magnetic fields generated by the toroidal electric currents flowing in the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chang-Yin Huang , Ding-Xiong Wang , Jiu-Zhou Wang , Zhi-Yun Wang

We consider the interpretation of a pair of kHz Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the Fourier spectra of two Low Mass X-Ray Binaries, Sco X-1 and 4U1608-52, hosting an old accreting neutron star. The observed frequency difference of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luigi Stella , Mario Vietri

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 interpret the correlation over five orders of magnitude between high frequency and low frequency in a quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) found by Psaltis, Belloni & van der Klis (1999) for black hole (BH), neutron star (NS) systems and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lev Titarchuk , Kent Wood

We compare our calculations of the frequencies of the fundamental g, c, and p--modes of relativistic thin accretion disks with recent observations of high frequency QPOs in X-ray binaries with black hole candidates. These classes of modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Robert V. Wagoner , Alexander S. Silbergleit , Manuel Ortega-Rodriguez

We suggest a plausible interpretation for the twin kiloHertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. We identify the upper kHz QPO frequencies to be the rotational frequency and the lower kHz QPOs the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. -D. Li , C. -M. Zhang

Black hole and neutron star X-ray binary systems routinely show quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in their X-ray flux. Despite being strong, easily measurable signals, their physical origin has long remained elusive. However, recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Adam Ingram , Sara Motta

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are often present in the X-ray flux from accreting stellar-mass black holes (BHs). If they are due to relativistic (Lense-Thirring) precession of an inner accretion flow which is misaligned with the disc,…

The high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) that appear in the X-ray fluxes of low-mass X-ray binaries remain an unexplained phenomenon. Among other ideas, it has been suggested that a non-linear resonance between two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Martin Urbanec , Gabriel Torok , Eva Sramkova , Petr Cech , Zdenek Stuchlik , Pavel Bakala

We compare the theoretical predictions of the transition layer model with some observational features of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in neutron star X-ray binaries. We found that the correlation between horizontal branch oscillation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Xue-Bing Wu

In this work we explore the idea that the high frequency QPOs observed in LMXBs may be explained as a resonant coupling between the neutron star spin and epicyclic modes of accretion disk oscillations. We propose a new model for these QPOs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Petri

We present analysis of fast variability of Very Large Telescope/ISAAC (infra-red), \textit{XMM-Newton}/OM (optical) and EPIC-pn (X-ray), and RXTE/PCA (X-ray) observations of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 in a rising hard state of its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 M. Kalamkar , P. Casella , P. Uttley , K. O'Brien , D. Russell , T. Maccarone , M. van der Klis , F. Vincentelli

We present the results of an extensive timing analysis of the 1999 outburst of the soft X-ray transient and black hole candidate XTE J1859+226 as observed with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. Three main different types of low frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Piergiorgio Casella , Tomaso Belloni , Jeroen Homan , Luigi Stella

Observations from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer have shown the existence of high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) in the X-ray flux from accreting black hole binary systems. In at least two systems, these HFQPOs come in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman , Edmund Bertschinger