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We report the discovery of Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPO) at 0.02 Hz in a transient high mass X-ray binary pulsar KS 1947+300 using {\em RXTE}-PCA. The QPOs were detected during May-June 2001, at the end of a long outburst. This is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Marykutty James , Biswajit Paul , Jincy Devasia , Kavila Indulekha

We present Keck II spectroscopy of an optical mHz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the lightcurve of the X-ray pulsar binary Her X-1. In the power spectrum it appears as `peaked noise', with a coherency $\sim$2, a central frequency of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 K O'Brien , Keith Horne , B Boroson , M Still , R Gomer , JB Oke , P Boyd , S Vrtilek

Microquasars are the compact objects generally including accreting black holes which produce relativistic jets. The physical mechanisms of jet launching, collimation, and acceleration are poorly understood. Microquasars show strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Wei Wang

Most models of the low frequency quasi periodic oscillations (QPOs) in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) explain the dynamical properties of those QPOs. On the other hand, in recent years reverberation models that assume a lamp-post geometry…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Konstantinos Karpouzas , Mariano Méndez , Federico García , Liang Zhang , Diego Altamirano , Tomaso Belloni , Yuexin Zhang

We investigate the behavior of the high frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in 4U 0614+091, combining timing and spectral analysis of RXTE observations. The energy spectra of the source can be described by a power law (alpha ~ 2.8)…

We present evidence for Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the recurrent outburst emission from the soft gamma repeater SGR 1806-20 using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations. By searching a sample of 30 bursts for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-13 Ahmed M. El-Mezeini , Alaa I. Ibrahim

The study of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of X-ray flux observed in the stellar-mass black hole binaries can provide a powerful tool for testing of the phenomena occurring in strong gravity regime. The high frequency (HF) QPOs usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-10 Martin Kološ , Arman Tursunov , Zdeněk Stuchlík

We report the discovery, with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), of the first sub-millisecond oscillation found in a celestial X-ray source. The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) come from Sco X-1 and have a frequency of…

The Galactic black hole GRS 1915+105 exhibits generic High-Frequency Quasi-periodic Oscillations (HFQPOs) at $\sim$ 67 Hz only during the radio-quiet 'softer' variability classes. We present the time-lag properties associated with HFQPOs in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-09 Prajjwal Majumder , Broja G. Dutta , Anuj Nandi

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are coherent peaks of variability power observed in the X-ray power spectra (PSDs) of stellar mass X-ray binaries (XRBs). A scale invariance of the accretion process implies they should be present in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 William Alston , Andy Fabian , Julija Markeviciute , Michael Parker , Matt Middleton , Erin Kara

X-ray radiation from black hole binary (BHB) systems regularly displays quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). In principle, a number of suggested physical mechanisms can reproduce their power spectral properties, thus more powerful…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Adam Ingram , Michiel van der Klis

We explore the use of the bispectrum for understanding quasiperiodic oscillations. The bispectrum is a statistic which probes the relations between the relative phases of the Fourier spectrum at different frequencies. The use of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Thomas J. Maccarone , Philip Uttley , Michiel van der Klis , Rudy Wijnands , Paolo S. Coppi

We have investigated the X-ray timing properties of XTE J1550-564 during 60 RXTE PCA observations made between 1998 September 18 and November 28. We detect quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) near 185 Hz during four time intervals. The QPO…

We present evidence for Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the recurrent outburst activity from SGR 1806-20 using Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations during November 1996. Searching for QPOs in a sample of 30 bursts at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-24 Ahmed M. El-Mezeini , Alaa I. Ibrahim

In this work, we explore the long-term variability properties of the blazar PKS 0219-164 in the radio and the $\gamma$-ray regime, utilizing the OVRO 15 GHz and the \fermi/LAT observations from the period 2008--2017. We found that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Gopal Bhatta

The OVRO 40-m telescope has been monitoring the 15 GHz radio flux density of over 1200 blazars since 2008. The 15 GHz light curve of the flat spectrum radio quasar J1359+4011 shows a strong and persistent quasi-periodic oscillation. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 O. G. King , T. Hovatta , W. Max-Moerbeck , D. L. Meier , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , J. L. Richards , M. C. Shepherd

The type I X-ray burster and dipper 4U1915-05 (also known as XB1916-053) was monitored by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer between February and October, 1996. The source was observed in various spectral states; the highest luminosity state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Barret , L. Boirin , J. F. Olive , J. E. Grindlay , P. F. Bloser , J. Swank , A. P. Smale

We present, for the first time, an in-depth dynamical analysis of the spectro-temporal properties of the soft variability classes ($\delta$, $\kappa$, $\omega$, and $\gamma$) of GRS 1915+105 during the detection of $\sim$70 Hz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Sreehari Harikesh , Seshadri Majumder , Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi

The discovery of quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) in the X-ray emission accompanying the giant flares of the soft gamma-ray repeaters SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14 has led to intense speculation about their nature and what they…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 M. Coleman Miller , Cecilia Chirenti , Tod Strohmayer

Utilizing NICER observations, we present an analysis of the soft X-ray re-brightening event of GRS 1915+105 observed in 2021. During this event, we observed the emergence of a stable, long-lasting low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-12 Ling-Da Kong , Long Ji , Andrea Santangelo , Meng-Lei Zhou , Qing-Cang Shui , Shu Zhang