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In X-ray binaries, the frequencies revealed in X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are often interpreted as characteristic frequencies in the inner accretion disk, though the exact oscillation mechanism is unknown at present. Broadened…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Miller , J. Homan

We present an energy-dependent analysis for the type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8-1613 using Insight-HXMT observations. We find that the QPO fractional rms at energies above 40…

We present a systematic study of the orbital inclination effects on black-hole transients fast time-variability properties. We have considered all the black-hole binaries that have been densely monitored by the Rossi XTE satellite. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 S. E. Motta , P. Casella , M. Henze , T. Muñoz-Darias , A. Sanna , R. Fender , T. Belloni

We present a study of correlations between spectral and timing parameters for a sample of black hole X-ray binary candidates. Data are taken from GX 339-4, H 1743-322, and XTE J1650-500, as the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 H. Stiele , T. M. Belloni , E. Kalemci , S. Motta

We present a variability study of the black hole candidate and X-ray transient H1743-322 during its 2003/2004 outburst. We analyzed five Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations that were performed as part of a multi-wavelength campaign, as…

We propose that high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) can be produced from randomly-formed X-ray bursts (flashes) by plasma interior to the ergosphere of a rapidly-rotating black hole. We show by direct computation of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas

In this work, we report for the first time two repeated quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the light curve of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) S5 1044+71. This source was observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-23 Jun-Jie Wang , Ting-Feng Yi , Yangwei Zhang , He Lu , Yuncai Shen , Lisheng Mao , Liang Dong

Black hole X-ray binaries routinely exhibit Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in their Power density spectrum. Studies of QPOs have demonstrated immense ability to understand these dynamical systems although their unambiguous origin still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Nazma Husain , Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

We report the results of a systematic timing analysis of all archival Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of the bright black-hole binary GRS 1915+105 in order to detect high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPO). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Tomaso M. Belloni , Diego Altamirano

In this study, the behavior of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) is investigated around a Kerr black hole immersed in a uniform Bertotti-Robinson magnetic field. The motion of the test particle is analyzed by determining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-20 Hamza Rehman , Sanjar Shaymatov , Saddam Hussain , Tao Zhu

We report the discovery of a new quasi-period oscillation (QPO) at 0.22 Hz, centered on the source spin frequency of the high mass X-ray binary system V~0332+53 when the source was observed during its November 2004/March 2005 outburst by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. L. Qu , S. Zhang , L. Song , M. Falanga

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 present a detailed analysis of the spectral and timing characteristics of a 7-Hz type-A quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) detected in NICER observations of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-630 during its high-soft state. The QPO is…

Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) are very puzzling since they remain totally unexplained by popular earlier models of accretion disks. The significant rms value in power density spectrum implies that the oscillation involves in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-10 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , D. Debnath , P. S. Pal , A. Nandi , R. Sarkar , M. M. Samanta , P. J. Wiita , H. Ghosh , D. Som

We present a comprehensive analysis of the spectro-temporal characteristics of the X-ray variabilities from black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-472 during its three outbursts (2018, 2020, and 2021) as observed by $\textit{NICER}$. We detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Ansh Chopra , Manoneeta Chakraborty , Unnati Kashyap

Low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) are commonly observed in X-ray light curves of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs); however, their origin remains a topic of debate. In order to thoroughly investigate variations in spectral…

High-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) appear in general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetically choked accretion flows around rapidly rotating black holes (BHs). We perform polarized radiative transfer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Roman V. Shcherbakov , Jonathan C. McKinney

Low frequency (approximately 0.1-35 Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) of the X-ray flux characterize many of the black hole candidates, in particular those which have radio evidence for jets. These QPO have amplitudes of up to 20 per…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Swank

We investigate quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as a diagnostic tool for probing frame-dragging effects and accretion disk physics in the spacetime of a rotating regular magnetic black hole (BH). Specifically, we analyze the precession of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-13 R. H. Ali , Meng-He Wu , Hong Guo , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We examine the nonlinear variability of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) using the bicoherence, a measure of phase coupling at different Fourier frequencies. We analyse several observations of RXTE/PCA archival data of the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 K. Arur , T. J. Maccarone