Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the X-Ray Flux from the Black Hole Candidates

Author(s):  
Tadayasu Dotani
1998 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 381-381
Author(s):  
T. Yamasaki ◽  
S. Mineshige ◽  
S. Kato

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of a few Hz are observed in the very high state of some black hole candidates (GX 339-4 and GS 1124-68). This is the Kepler frequency at the radius of a few hundred Schwarzschild radii. As a possible mechanism of the QPOs in these objects, the trapped oscillations in the accretion disks are considered. The trapped oscillations of the disks were investigated by several authors. They studied the trapped oscillations in the standard radiative cooling-dominated disks. Recently, the advection-dominated accretion flow is considered, as a possible model to explain the hard X-ray spectra of the black hole candidates or the active galactic nuclei. In particular, in the very high state of some black hole candidates, the spectrum can be explained by the disk-corona model which comprises the cold standard accretion disk and the advection-dominated corona above the cold disk. We thus investigated the trapped axi-symmetric oscillations in the advection-dominated corona by the global linear analysis.


Galaxies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Debjit Chatterjee ◽  
Arghajit Jana ◽  
Kaushik Chatterjee ◽  
Riya Bhowmick ◽  
Sujoy Kumar Nath ◽  
...  

We study the properties of the faint X-ray activity of Galactic transient black hole candidate XTE J1908+094 during its 2019 outburst. Here, we report the results of detailed spectral and temporal analysis during this outburst using observations from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). We have not observed any quasi-periodic-oscillations (QPOs) in the power density spectrum (PDS). The spectral study suggests that the source remained in the softer (more precisely, in the soft–intermediate) spectral state during this short period of X-ray activity. We notice a faint but broad Fe Kα emission line at around 6.5 keV. We also estimate the probable mass of the black hole to be 6.5−0.7+0.5M⊙, with 90% confidence.


2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Misbah Shahzadi ◽  
Martin Kološ ◽  
Zdeněk Stuchlík ◽  
Yousaf Habib

AbstractThe 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 data of QPOs observed in the well known microquasars as well as active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the framework of the model of geodesic oscillations of Keplerian disks modified for the epicyclic oscillations of spinning test particles orbiting Kerr BHs. We show that the modified geodesic models of QPOs can explain the observational fixed data from the microquasars and AGNs but not for all sources. We perform a successful fitting of the high frequency QPOs models of epicyclic resonance and its variants, relativistic precession and its variants, tidal disruption, as well as warped disc models, and discuss the corresponding constraints of parameters of the model, which are the spin of the test particle, mass and rotation of the BH.


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