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Resonant Oscillations of Accretion Flow and Khz QPOS

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High-frequency quasi-periodic variations (HF QPOs) in the X-ray light curves of black hole X-ray novae can be understood as oscillations of the accretion disk in a nonlinear 3:2 resonance. An m = 0 vertical oscillation near a black hole modulates the X-ray emission through gravitational lensing (light-bending) at the source. Certain oscillations of the accretion disk will also modulate the mass accretion rate, and in neutron-star systems this would lead to nearly periodic variations in brightness of the luminous boundary layer on the stellar surface – the amplitude of the neutron-star HF QPOs would be thus increased relative to the black hole systems.

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  1. Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Bartycka 18, PL-00-716, Warszawa, Poland

    W. Kluźniak

  2. Institute of Astronomy, Zielona Góra University, Zielona Góra, Poland

    W. Kluźniak

  3. Department of Astrophysics, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

    M. A. Abramowicz

  4. Department of Theoretical Physics, Chalmers University, S-412-96, Göteborg, Sweden

    M. A. Abramowicz

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The “kHz QPOs” in black holes are in the hecto-Hz range.

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Kluźniak, W., Abramowicz, M.A. Resonant Oscillations of Accretion Flow and Khz QPOS. Astrophys Space Sci 300, 143–148 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-005-0020-6

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