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A brief review of recent research on soliton and black hole solutions of Einstein's equations with nonlinear field sources is presented and some open questions are pointed out.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 Piotr Bizoń

We present analysis of fast variability of Very Large Telescope/ISAAC (infra-red), \textit{XMM-Newton}/OM (optical) and EPIC-pn (X-ray), and RXTE/PCA (X-ray) observations of the black hole X-ray binary GX 339-4 in a rising hard state of its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 M. Kalamkar , P. Casella , P. Uttley , K. O'Brien , D. Russell , T. Maccarone , M. van der Klis , F. Vincentelli

This review is focused on tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity with gravitational waves that are detectable by ground-based interferometers and pulsar-timing experiments. Einstein's theory has been greatly constrained in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Nicolas Yunes , Xavier Siemens , Kent Yagi

The frequencies of kHz QPOs are widely interpreted as being indicative of the values of characteristic frequencies related to orbital motion around neutron stars, e.g., the radial epicyclic frequency. In regions directly exposed to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-13 M. A. Abramowicz , W. Kluźniak , W. Yu

We discuss further observational support of an idea formulated a decade ago by Abramowicz, Klu{\'z}niak, McClintock and Remillard. They demonstrated that the 3:2 pairs of frequencies of the twin-peak black hole (BH) high-frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Xin-Lin Zhou , Weimin Yuan , Hai-Wu Pan , Zhu Liu

Pairs of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) at kilohertz frequencies are a common phenomenon in several neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries. The frequency separation of the QPO peaks in the pair appears to be constant in many sources and…

The recently updated data of the twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) in the neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries are analyzed. The power-law fitting $\nu_{1}=a(\nu_{2}/1000)^{b}$ and linear fitting $\nu_{2}=A\nu_{1}+B$ are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 H. X. Yin , Y. H. Zhao

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

We detected millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in an XMM-Newton observation of the neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53. These QPOs have been interpreted as marginally-stable burning on the neutron-star surface. At the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Ming Lyu , Mariano Mendez , Diego Altamirano

In this essay we marshal evidence suggesting that Einstein gravity may be an emergent phenomenon, one that is not ``fundamental'' but rather is an almost automatic low-energy long-distance consequence of a wide class of theories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Carlos Barcelo , Matt Visser , Stefano Liberati

Observations of X-ray emissions from binary systems have long since been considered important tools to test General Relativity in strong-field regimes. The high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (HFQPOs) observed in binaries containing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Luciano Rezzolla , Shin'ichirou Yoshida , Thomas J. Maccarone , Olindo Zanotti

One of the most dramatic discoveries made so far with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer is that many accreting neutron stars with weak magnetic fields generate strong, remarkably coherent, high-frequency X-ray brightness oscillations. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. K. Lamb , M. C. Miller , D. Psaltis

The study of the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of X-ray flux observed in the stellar-mass black hole (BH) binaries or quasars can provide a powerful tool for testing the phenomena occurring in strong gravity regime. We thus fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Misbah Shahzadi , Martin Kološ , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Yousaf Habib

A brief account of the present status of the recent nonlocal generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation is presented. The main physical assumptions that underlie this theory are described. We clarify the physical meaning and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-20 B. Mashhoon

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 have analyzed ~600 ks of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary and Z source GX 17+2. A study was performed of the properties of the noise components and quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as a…

We investigate the correlation between the frequencies of the twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) and the neutron star (NS) spins in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), based on the data sets of 12 sources with simultaneously…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 De-Hua Wang , Cheng-Min Zhang , Jin-Lu Qu , Yi-Yan Yang

The Newtonian solid-mechanical theory of non-compressional spheroidal and torsional nodeless elastic vibrations in the homogenous crust model of a quaking neutron star is developed and applied to the modal classification of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bastrukov , H-K. Chang , G. -T. Chen , I. Molodtsova

Gravitational-wave astronomy has the potential to explore one of the deepest and most puzzling aspects of Einstein's theory: the existence of black holes. A plethora of ultracompact, horizonless objects have been proposed to arise in models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-04 Enrico Barausse , Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso , Irina Dvorkin , Paolo Pani

Based on previous studies of quasi-periodic oscillations in neutron star LMXBs, mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) are believed to be related to `marginally stable' burning on the neutron star (NS) surface. Our study of phase resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 H. Stiele , W. Yu , A. K. H. Kong