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Motivated by the recent proposal that one can obtain quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) by photon echoes manifesting as non-trivial features in the autocorrelation function (ACF), we study the ACFs of the light curves of three accreting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Fukumura , C. R. Shrader , J. W. Dong , D. Kazanas

We report detailed, long term near-infrared (NIR) light curves of GRS 1915+105 in 2007-2008, covering its long "soft state" for the first time. From our NIR monitoring and the X-ray data of the All Sky Monitor (ASM) onboard Rossi X-ray…

The shape of the power spectrum of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary evolves systematically over different spectral states during an outburst. Therefore, the power colours (ratio of the variability amplitude at different frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Biki Ram , Manoneeta Chakraborty

The two galactic `microquasars' with superluminal radio jets have been quite active during 1996, generatinga variety of studies involving both NASA and ground-based observatories. GRS~1915+105 has displayed dramatic accretion instability in…

We report the discovery of the correlated optical/X-ray low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole binary SWIFT J1753.5-0127. The phase lag between two light-curves at the QPO frequency is close to zero. This result puts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Alexandra Veledina , Mikhail G. Revnivtsev , Martin Durant , Poshak Gandhi , Juri Poutanen

The soft X-ray emissions of solar flares come mainly from the bright coronal loops at the highest temperatures normally achieved in the flare process. Their ubiquity has led to their use as a standard measure of flare occurrence and energy,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Paulo J. A. Simões , Hugh S. Hudson , Lyndsay Fletcher

In this work, we performed an energy-dependent study of low-frequency oscillations observed in GX 13+1 using \textit{AstroSat} (Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter and Soft X-ray Telescope). The hardness-intensity diagram (HID) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Arbind Pradhan , Sree Bhattacherjee , Biplob Sarkar

We report the discovery in archival Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) data of a 40 Hz quasiperiodic oscillation (QPO) in the hard X-ray flux from the galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105. The QPO is detected only in the hard X-ray band above…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Tod E. Strohmayer

GRS 1915+105 is a widely studied black hole binary, well known because of its extremely fast and complex variability. Flaring periods of high variability alternate with "stable" phases (the plateaux) when the flux is low, the spectra are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 E. M. Ratti , T. M. Belloni , S. E. Motta

We report on the detection of optical/near-infrared (O-IR) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from the black hole X-ray transient Swift J1727.8-1613. We obtained three X-ray and O-IR high-time-resolution observations of the source during…

We analyse the 2021 outburst from the black hole X-ray binary GX339-4 observed by NICER around the hard to soft transition, when the system exhibits flip-flops between two distinct luminosity states: a bright state with a 5-6 Hz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-14 D. J. K. Buisson , G. Marcel , V. López-Barquero , S. E. Motta , S. G. D. Turner , F. M. Vincentelli

The origin of the large-amplitude, quasi-periodic X-ray flux variations in several classes of the Galactic microquasar GRS~1915+105 remains unresolved. We address this issue through flux-resolved, broadband (0.8-20 keV) spectral modelling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Shree Suman , Shuvajit Khatua , Vishal Jadoliya , Prathamesh Narayan Gupta , Mayukh Pahari

We re-examine the correlation between the frequencies of upper and lower kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in bright neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries. By including the kHz QPO frequencies of the X-ray binary Cir X-1 and two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Belloni , M. Mendez , J. Homan

The study of quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) plays a vital role in understanding the nature and geometry of the Comptonizing medium around black-hole X-ray binaries. The spectral-state dependence of various types of QPOs (namely A, B, &…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Sandeep K. Rout , Mariano Mendez , Federico Garcia

Motivated by recent studies showing an apparent correlation between the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and the low-frequency, type-C QPO in low-mass, black hole X-ray binaries (LMXBs), we explore a model that explains all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 P. Chris Fragile , Odele Straub , Omer Blaes

Blazars exhibit variable emission on diverse timescales. Some light curves show signs of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs), which may encode clues regarding the physical processes behind the emission or point to supermassive binary black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 M. A. Hashad , A. Hammad , Amr A. EL-Zant

Observations with RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer) revealed the presence of High Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (HFQPOs) of the X-ray flux from several accreting stellar mass Black Holes. HFQPOs (and their counterparts at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Janie K. Hoormann , Henric Krawczynski

Quasi-periodic fluctuations in the light curves of blazars can provide insight into the underlying emission process. This type of flux modulation hints at periodic physical processes that result in emission. CTA 102, a flat spectrum radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-15 Arkadipta Sarkar , Pankaj Kushwaha , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita

We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of the 'softer' variability classes ($i.e.$, $\theta$, $\beta$, $\delta$, $\rho$, $\kappa$, $\omega$ and $\gamma$) of the source GRS 1915+105 observed by AstroSat during $2016-2021$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Seshadri Majumder , H. Sreehari , Nafisa Aftab , Tilak Katoch , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi

BeppoSAX observed GRS 1915+105 on October 2000 with a long pointing lasting about ten days. During this observation, the source was mainly in the rho class characterized by bursts with a recurrence time of between 40 and 100 s. We identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Mineo , E. Massaro , A. D'Ai , F. Massa , M. Feroci , G. Ventura , P. Casella , C. Ferrigno , T. Belloni