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The X-ray emission from the microquasar GRS 1515+105 shows, together with a very complex variability on different time scales, the presence of low-frequency quasi periodic oscillations (LFQPO) at frequencies lower than 30 Hz. In this paper,…

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We use Monte Carlo/Fokker-Planck simulations to study the X-ray time lags. Our results show that soft lags will be observed as long as the decay of the flare is dominated by radiative cooling, even when acceleration and cooling timescales…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-27 Xuhui Chen , Giovanni Fossati , Edison Liang , Markus Böttcher

The X-ray signal from active galactic nuclei and black hole X-ray binaries is highly variable on a range of timescales. This variability can be exploited to map the region of interest close to the black hole, which is far too small to…

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The X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) is a remarkable form of variability in systems of compact object accretion. RE J1034+396, harboring the most significant X-ray QPO in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), is the most noteworthy source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-10 Ruisong Xia , Hao Liu , Yongquan Xue

Single x-ray photons can be resonantly scattered and stored with the help of suitable transitions in the atomic nucleus. Here, we investigate theoretically means of mechanical-free modulation for the frequency spectra of such x-ray photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Gregor Ramien , Jonas Gunst , Xiangjin Kong , Adriana Pálffy

We study the origin of the soft X-ray excess seen in the 'simple' Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy PG1244+026 using all available spectral-timing information. This object shows the standard switch between soft leading the hard band on long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Emma Gardner , Chris Done

The light curve of the galactic micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 changes in at least thirteen different ways which are called classes. We present examples of the transitions from one class to another as observed by the IXAE instrument aboard the…

We have constructed models of quasi-periodic variability of X-ray emission from accreting compact objects. Assuming a general scenario of a propagation model of variability, with inverse Compton upscatering as the emission mechanism, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. T. Zycki , M. Sobolewska

The first multifrequency radio observations of the very compact BAL quasar, 1045+352, were made using MERLIN and the VLBA in a snapshot mode. However, its unusual radio structure was still very difficult to interpret, indicating a scenario…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-24 Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska , Marcin P. Gawronski

We report the identification of two statistically significant quasi-periodic oscillations in the weekly binned $\gamma$-ray light curve of the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 0805$-$07, observed by Fermi-LAT over the period MJD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-21 Sikandar Akbar , Zahir Shah , Ranjeev Misra , Sajad Boked , Naseer Iqbal

Multi-wavelength observations of Galactic black hole candidate sources indicate a close connection between the accretion disk emission and the jet emission. The recent discovery of an anti-correlated time lag between the soft and hard…

We collect long term $\gamma$-ray, optical and radio $15$ GHz light curves of quasar object PMN J2345-1555. The correlation analyses between them are performed via the local cross-correlation function (LCCF). We found that all the optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-03 Yun-Guo Jiang , Shao-Ming Hu , Xu Chen , Xi Shao , Qiu-Hong Huo

The Fourier transform of the observed magnetic quantum oscillations (MQO) in YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{6+\delta }$ high-temperature superconductors has a prominent low-frequency peak with two smaller neighbouring peaks. The separation and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-27 Pavel D. Grigoriev , Timothy Ziman

Cygnus X-1 is a high-mass black hole binary extensively studied since its discovery in 1964. Its rapid X-ray variability provides insights into accretion physics. Unlike other black hole X-ray binaries, its power spectra are generally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-30 Federico A. Fogantini , Federico García , Mariano Méndez , Ole König , Jörn Wilms

Systematically studying all the RXTE/PCA observations for GRS 1915+105 before November 2010, we have discovered three additional patterns in the relation between Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) frequency and photon energy, extending…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shu-Ping Yan , Jin-Lu Qu , Guo-Qiang Ding , Peng Han , Li-Ming Song , Hong-Xing Yin , Cheng-Min Zhang , Shu Zhang , Jian-Min Wang

We present the long term evolution of the frequency-dependent X-ray time lags of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 as measured in 1996 and 1998 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). Lag spectra measured during the 1996 June soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms , M. A. Nowak , W. A. Heindl , D. M. Smith , R. Staubert

It has long been known that X-ray and optical/UV variability in active X-ray binaries is sometimes correlated. The expectation has been that this arises from rapid reprocessing of X-rays into longer wavelength photons, and hence that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Hynes

Blazar jets are renowned for their rapid violent variability and multiwavelength flares, however, the physical processes responsible for these flares are not well understood. In this paper we develop a time-dependent inhomogeneous fluid jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 William J. Potter

Aims. The main purpose of this paper is to study time delays between the light variations in different wavebands for a sample of quasars. Measuring a reliable time delay for a large number of quasars may help constraint the models of their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rumen S. Bachev

One of the most powerful approaches to imaging at the nanometer or subnanometer length scale is coherent diffraction imaging using X-ray sources. For amorphous (non-crystalline) samples, the raw data can be interpreted as the modulus of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Alexander Barnett , Charles L. Epstein , Leslie Greengard , Jeremy Magland