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The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in black hole (BH) systems of different scales are interpreted based on the magnetic reconnection of the large-scale magnetic fields generated by the toroidal electric currents flowing in the inner…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Chang-Yin Huang , Ding-Xiong Wang , Jiu-Zhou Wang , Zhi-Yun Wang

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

Black holes in dense astrophysical environments, such as globular clusters or in the vicinity of other massive objects, may possess accelerations. Such acceleration would modulate the characteristics of the quasi-periodic oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Hamza Rehman , Saddam Hussain , G. Abbas , Tao Zhu

The X-ray observation of black hole candidates provides a valuable tool to probe regions very close to the central black hole, where strong-field relativistic effects become important. Recent studies have shown that these effects seem to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Cui , Wan Chen , S. N. Zhang

We try to understand the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in low-mass neutron-star and black-hole X-ray binaries by a resonance model in warped disks with precession. Our main concern is high-frequency QPOs, hectohertz QPOs, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shoji Kato

We analyze all available RXTE data on a sample of 13 low mass X-ray binaries with known neutron star spin that are not persistent pulsars. We carefully measure the correlations between the centroid frequencies of the quasi-periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-18 Marieke van Doesburgh , Michiel van der Klis

A new model for the explanation of the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in pulsars, black holes and white dwarfs is presented. Three circular tori are assumed to be present around the star: an inner torus with charge $Q_i$,…

General Physics · Physics 2009-03-21 Jacob Biemond

We examine the properties of the viscous dissipative accretion flow around rotating black holes in presence of mass loss. Considering thin disc approximation, we self-consistently calculate the inflow-outflow solutions and observe that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Ramiz Aktar , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi , H. Sreehari

Following the previous research on epicyclic oscillations of accretion disks around black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs), a new model of high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) has been proposed (CT model), which deals with…

In the context of a relativistic hot spot model, we investigate different physical mechanisms to explain the behavior of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) from accreting black holes. The locations and amplitudes of the QPO peaks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy D. Schnittman

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

While the dynamical origin of the variability observed in Galactic Black hole systems, such as quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs), are still a matter of debate, insight into the radiative components responsible for such behaviour can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Akash Garg , Ranjeev Misra , Somasri Sen

High frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) appear in the X-ray variability of several accreting low-mass binaries. In a series of works it was suggested that these QPOs may have connection to inhomogeneities orbiting close to an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Bakala , G. Torok , V. Karas , M. Dovciak , M. Wildner , D. Wzientek , E. Sramkova , M. Abramowicz , K. Goluchova , G. P. Mazur , F. H. Vincent

High frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HF QPOs) are observed in the X-ray power-density spectra (PDS) of several microquasars and low mass X-ray binaries. Many proposed QPO models are based on oscillations of accretion toroidal fluid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Pavel Bakala , Kateřina Goluchová , Eva Šrámková , Andrea Kotrlová , Gabriel Török , Frederic H. Vincent , Marek A. Abramowicz

We propose a polynomial approximation of the global Lense-Thirring rigid precession frequency to study low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations around spinning black holes. This high-performing approximation allows to determine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Vittorio De Falco , Sara Motta

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

The rather elusive High-Frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations(HFQPO) observed in the X-ray lightcurve of black holes have been seen in a wide range of frequencies, even within one source. It is also notable to have been detected in "pairs"…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Peggy Varniere , Fabien Casse , Frederic Vincent

Accreting stellar mass black holes (BHs) routinely exhibit Type-C quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). These are often interpreted as Lense-Thirring precession of the inner accretion flow, a relativistic effect whereby the spin of the BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis , Matthew Middleton , Diego Altamirano , Phil Uttley

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

We present a systematic analysis of the complete set of observations of the black hole (BH) binary XTE J1550-564 obtained by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. We study the fast time variability properties of the source and determine the spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 S. E. Motta , T. Muñoz-Darias , A. Sanna , R. Fender , T. Belloni , L. Stella