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Using a large quantity of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data presented in the literature I offer a detailed investigation into the accuracy of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPO) frequency determination. The QPO phenomenon seen in X-ray binaries…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lev Titarchuk

The presence of a surface at the inner boundary, such as in a neutron star or a white dwarf, allows the existence of a standing shock in steady spherical accretion.The standing shock can become unstable in 2D or 3D; this is called the {\em…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-11 Prasun Dhang , Prateek Sharma , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Several X-ray pulsars have been observed to experience torque reversals, which provide important observational clues to the interaction between the neutron star magnetic field and the accretion disk. We review the current models proposed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Z. Zhang , X. -D. Li

We investigate the effects of subsonic turbulence on a normal mode of oscillation [a possible origin of the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) within some black hole accretion disks]. We consider perturbations of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Robert V. Wagoner , Celia R. Tandon

We study systematically the ~0.1-1200 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and broad noise components observed in the power spectra of non-pulsing neutron-star and black-hole low-mass X-ray binaries. We show that among these components we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dimitrios Psaltis , Tomaso Belloni , Michiel van der Klis

The origin and stability of a thin sheet of plasma in the magnetosphere of an accreting neutron star is investigated. First the radial extension of such a magnetospheric disc is explored. Then a mechanism for magnetospheric accretion is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Meheut , M. Tagger

In this paper, we study the motion of test particles around two exact charged black-hole solutions in Einstein-{\AE}ther theory. Specifically, we first consider the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and their resonances generated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-18 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Zihang Chen , Bojun Deng , Mubasher Jamil , Tao Zhu , Qiang Wu , Yen-Kheng Lim

The Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer observed the soft X-Ray transient Aql X-1 during its outburst in February and March 1997. We report the discovery of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in its persistent flux with frequencies in the range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Zhang , K. Jahoda , R. L. Kelley , T. E. Strohmayer J. H. Swank , S. N. Zhang

We examine the evolution and influence of viscosity-induced diskoseismic modes in simulated black hole accretion disks. Understanding the origin and behavior of such oscillations will help us to evaluate their potential role in producing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Sean M. O'Neill , Christopher S. Reynolds , M. Coleman Miller

This paper investigates the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) phenomenon around the black bounce-type (BBT) spacetime using the resonance models. We calculated the location of the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-18 Jianbo Lu , Shining Yang , Yuying Zhang , Liu Yang , Mou Xu

We investigate torsional Alfv\'en oscillations of relativistic stars with a global dipole magnetic field, via two-dimensional numerical simulations. We find that a) there exist two families of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hajime Sotani , Kostas Kokkotas , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) has been regarded as representing the Keplerian frequency at the inner disk edge in the neutron star X-ray binaries. The so-called ``parallel tracks'' on the plot of the kHz QPO frequency vs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wenfei Yu

We study the global stability of non-axisymmetric p-modes (also called inertial-acoustic modes) trapped in the inner-most regions of accretion discs around black holes. We show that the lowest-order (highest-frequency) p-modes, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dong Lai , David Tsang

A recent measurement of double peak QPOs frequencies in Sgr A* is consistent with the 3:2 ratio. The same ratio is firmly established by previous observations in all double peak kHz QPOs in microquasars and theoretically explained by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriel Török

We have carried out a systematic study of the properties of the kilo-Hertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) observed in the X-ray emission of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U1608-52, using archival data obtained with the Rossi…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Barret , W. Kluzniak , J. F. Olive , S. Paltani , G. K. Skinner

{We investigate the coherence of the twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) theoretically. The profile of upper kHz QPO, interpreted as Keplerian frequency, is ascribed to the radial extent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Wang , C. M. Zhang , Y. H. Zhao , Y. F. Lin , H. X. Yin , L. M. Song

We model energy dependencies of the quasi periodic oscillations (QPO) in the model of disc epicyclic motions, with X-ray modulation caused by varying relativistic effects. The model was proposed to explain the high frequency QPO observed in…

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

We present for the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636$-$53, and for the first time for any source of kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs), the two-dimensional behaviour of the fractional rms amplitude of the kHz QPOs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Evandro M. Ribeiro , Mariano Méndez , Marcio G. B. de Avellar , Guobao Zhang , Konstantinos Karpouzas

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

Accretion onto compact objects in X-ray binaries [black hole, neutron star (NS), white dwarf] is characterized by non-uniform flow density profiles. Such an effect of heterogeneity in presence of gravitational forces and pressure gradients…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lev Titarchuk