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A kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (kHz QPO) is an observationally robust high-frequency timing feature detected from neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). This feature can be very useful to probe the superdense core matter of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-18 Arunava Mukherjee , Sudip Bhattacharyya

In this Paper we report on further observations of the third and fourth kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the power spectrum of the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 4U1636-53. These kilohertz QPOs are sidebands to the lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Jonker , M. Mendez , M. van der Klis

Nearly $1.32 \times 10^6$ sec of non-zero count rate data were obtained from five years of {\rm RXTE} observations of the atoll source 4U 1636-53. The data was divided into 10309 segments of 128 sec each. The histogram of the number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Misra , K. Shanthi

The low-mass X-ray binary pulsar 4U 1626-67 shows 0.048 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and red noise variability as well as coherent pulsations at the 0.130 Hz neutron star spin frequency. Power density spectra of observations made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. M. Kommers , D. Chakrabarty , W. H. G. Lewin

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

We report the discovery of a kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (kHz QPO) in the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 2S 0918-549. The kHz QPO has a frequency of 1156+-9 Hz, a FWHM of 70+-20 Hz, and a fractional rms amplitude of 18%+-2%. We also…

We discovered kHz QPOs in 80 archived RXTE observations from the peculiar low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Circinus X-1. In 11 cases these appear in pairs in the frequency range of ~230 Hz to ~500 Hz for the upper kHz QPO and ~56 Hz to ~225 Hz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Boutloukos , M. van der Klis , D. Altamirano , M. Klein-Wolt , R. Wijnands

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…

We investigate the spectral and timing properties of the millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) in neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53 using XMM-Newton and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations. The mHz QPOs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Ming Lyu , Mariano Mendez , Guobao Zhang , L. Keek

We report the discovery of a 695-Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in data taken with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer of the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) EXO 0748-676. This makes EXO 0748-676 the second dipping LMXB, after 4U 1915-05,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jeroen Homan , Michiel van der Klis

We report the discovery with XMM-Newton of an approximately 7 mHz X-ray (0.3-10.0 keV) quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) from the eclipsing, high-inclination black hole binary IC 10 X-1. The QPO is significant at > 4.33 sigma confidence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Dheeraj R. Pasham , Tod E. Strohmayer , Richard F. Mushotzky

We present the discovery of a low-frequency $\approx 5.7$ Hz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) feature in observations of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1535-571 in its soft-intermediate state, obtained in September-October 2017 by the…

We have observed the ultra-compact low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) 1A 1246-588 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). In this manuscript we report the discovery of a kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in 1A 1246-588. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 P. G. Jonker , J. J. M. in 't Zand , M. Mendez , M. van der Klis

AIMS: For six neutron-star atoll sources (4U 1608-52, 4U 1636-53, 4U 0614+09, 4U 1728-34, 4U 1820-30 and 4U 1735-44) we investigate the relationship between the observed fractional rms amplitudes of the twin kHz QPOs. We discuss whether…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Gabriel Torok

The low mass X-ray binary 4U 1728-24 was observed with AstroSat/LAXPC on 8th March 2016. Data from a randomly chosen one orbit of over 3 ks was analyzed for detection of rapid intensity variations. We found that the source intensity was…

We investigate the frequency and amplitude of the millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz QPOs) in the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary (NS LMXB) 4U 1636-53 using Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations. We find that no mHz QPOs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Ming Lyu , Mariano Mendez , D. Altamirano , Guobao Zhang , G. C. Mancuso

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

During observations with RXTE we discovered two simultaneous kHz QPOs near 500 Hz and 860 Hz in the Z source Cyg X-2. In the X-ray color-color diagram and hardness-intensity diagram (HID) a clear Z track was traced out. A single kHz QPO…

We study in a systematic way the quality factor of the lower and upper kHz QPOs in a sample of low luminosity neutron star X-ray binaries, showing both QPOs varying over a wide frequency range. The sample includes 4U 1636-536, 4U 1608-522,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Didier Barret , Jean-Francois Olive , M. Coleman Miller

We have discovered kiloHertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in five Z sources: GX 340+0, Cygnus X-2, GX 17+2, GX 5-1, and Scorpius X-1. In all sources the properties of these kHz QPOs are very similar and closely related to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rudy Wijnands , Michiel van der Klis