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Fast Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs, frequencies of $\sim 20 - 1840$ Hz) have been recently discovered in the ringing tail of giant flares from Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs), when the luminosity was of order $10^{41}-10^{41.5}$ erg/s.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Vietri , L. Stella , G. Israel

We present a study of the centroid frequencies and phase lags of the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) as functions of photon energy for GRS 1915+105. It is found that the centroid frequencies of the 0.5-10 Hz QPOs and their phase lags are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 J. L. Qu , F. J. Lu , Y. Lu , M. L. Song , S. Zhang , G. Q. Ding

We report the results of AstroSat observations of GRS 1915$+$105 obtained using 100 ks guaranteed-time (GT) during the soft state. The Color-Color Diagram (CCD) indicates a variability class of $\delta$ with the detection of High Frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Sreehari H. , Anuj Nandi , Santabrata Das , V. K. Agrawal , Samir Mandal , M. C. Ramadevi , Tilak Katoch

With a systematic timing investigation of the persistent X-ray binary pulsar Her X-1 based on a large number of Insight-HXMT observations between 2017 to 2019, we confirm the presence of X-ray millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations (mHz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Wen Yang , Wei Wang

High-frequency twin peak quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) are observed in four microquasars, i.e., Galactic black hole binary systems, with frequency ratio very close to 3:2. In the microquasar GRS 1915+105, the structure of QPOs exhibits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 Zdenek Stuchlik , Andrea Kotrlova , Gabriel Torok

Powerful relativistic jets are one of the ubiquitous features of accreting black holes in all scales. GRS 1915+105 is a well-known fast-spinning black-hole X-ray binary with a relativistic jet, termed as a ``microquasar'', as indicated by…

We report the discovery of a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) at 61.0+/-1.7 Hz with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer in the low-mass X-ray binary and persistently bright atoll source GX 13+1 (4U 1811-17). The QPO had an rms amplitude of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jeroen Homan , Michiel van der Klis , Rudy Wijnands , Brian Vaughan , Erik Kuulkers

We discover a definite correlation between the frequency of the quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in quiescence states and the duration of the quiescence state of the transient X-ray source GRS 1915+105. We find that while the QPO frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sandip K. Chakrabarti , Sivakumar G. Manickam

We measured the phase-lag spectrum of the high-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in the black hole systems (at QPO frequencies) GRS 1915+105 (35 Hz and 67 Hz), GRO J1655-40 (300 Hz and 450 Hz), XTE J1550-564 (180 Hz and 280 Hz),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Mariano Mendez , Diego Altamirano , Tomaso Belloni , Andrea Sanna

We made a phase-resolved timing analysis of GRS 1915+105 in its {\rho} state and obtained detailed {\rho} cycle evolutions of the frequency, the amplitude and the coherence of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (LFQPO). We combined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-26 Shu-Ping Yan , Na Wang , Guo-Qiang Ding , Jin-Lu Qu

Our goal is to investigate the X-ray timing and spectral variability of the high-mass X-ray binary 1A 1118-615 during a type-II outburst. We performed a detailed color, spectral and timing analysis of a giant outburst from 1A 1118-615,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Elisa Nespoli , Pablo Reig

The low frequency quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) are commonly observed during hard states of black hole binaries. Several studies have established various observational/empirical correlations between spectral parameters and QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Anjali Rao Jassal , Santosh V. Vadawale , Mithun N. P. S , Ranjeev Misra

We present a detailed X-ray study of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 during a variability class transition observed in 2000 June with the PPCs of the Indian X-ray Astronomy Experiment. We supplement this observation with data from the RXTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Naik , P. C. Agrawal , A. R. Rao , B. Paul

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 discovered two simultaneous kHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the bright low-mass X-ray binary and Z source GX 5-1 with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. In the X-ray color-color and hardness-intensity diagram a clear Z track is…

Using observations with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, we examine the behavior of 2-10 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) during spectrally-hard dips in the x-ray light curve of GRS 1915+105 that are accompanied by infrared flares. Of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. J. Mikles , S. S. Eikenberry , D. M. Rothstein

We report the discovery of milli-hertz (mHz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and QPO-modulated pulsations during large X-ray flares from the high-mass X-ray binary pulsar LMC X-4 using data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dae-Sik Moon , Stephen. S. Eikenberry

The results of X-ray observations of Galactic superluminal jet source GRS 1915+105 during its low luminosity state and state transitions in October, 1996 - April, 1997 with PCA and HEXTE instruments aboard Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Trudolyubov , E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov

We present an analysis of highly magnetized neutron stars "magnetars", in search for high frequency oscillations in the recurrent emission from the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806-20, and we discuss the physical interpretation of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-25 Ahmed M. El-Mezeini

The Galactic microquasar GRS 1915+105 shows rich variability which is categorized into different classes. In this paper, we report temporal and spectral analysis of GRS 1915+105 to study the properties of the accretion flow when the light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Anuvab Banerjee , Ayan Bhattacharjee , Debjit Chatterjee , Dipak Debnath , Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti , Tilak Katoch , H. M. Antia