The ABC of Low‐Frequency Quasi‐periodic Oscillations in Black Hole Candidates: Analogies with Z Sources
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- 10 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 629 (1) , 403-407
- https://doi.org/10.1086/431174
Abstract
Three main types of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) have been observed in Black Hole Candidates. We re-analyzed RXTE data of the bright systems XTE J1859+226, XTE J1550-564 and GX 339-4, which show all three of them. We review the main properties of these LFQPOs and show that they follow a well-defined correlation in a fractional rms vs. softness diagram. We show that the frequency behavior through this correlation presents clear analogies with that of Horizontal-, Normal- and Flaring-Branch Oscillations in Z sources, with the inverse of the fractional rms being the equivalent of the curvilinear coordinate Sz through the Z track.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ, uses emulateapKeywords
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