Nine-hour X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a low-mass black hole galactic nucleus

G Miniutti, RD Saxton, M Giustini, KD Alexander… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
In the past two decades, high-amplitude electromagnetic outbursts have been detected from
dormant galaxies and often attributed to the tidal disruption of a star by the central black …

EMRI+ TDE= QPE: periodic X-ray flares from star–disk collisions in galactic nuclei

I Linial, BD Metzger - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Roughly half of the quasiperiodic eruption (QPE) sources in galactic nuclei exhibit a
remarkably regular alternating" long-short" pattern of recurrence times between consecutive …

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from the galactic nucleus of RX J1301. 9+ 2747

M Giustini, G Miniutti, RD Saxton - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Following the recent discovery of X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) coming from the
nucleus of the galaxy GSN 069, here we report on the detection of QPEs in the active galaxy …

A self-lensing binary massive black hole interpretation of quasi-periodic eruptions

A Ingram, SE Motta, S Aigrain… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Binary supermassive black hole (SMBH) systems result from galaxy mergers, and will
eventually coalesce due to gravitational wave (GW) emission if the binary separation can be …

A Model for the Possible Connection Between a Tidal Disruption Event and Quasi-periodic Eruption in GSN 069

M Wang, J Yin, Y Ma, Q Wu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are found in the center of five galaxies, where a tidal
disruption event (TDE)-like event has been reported in GSN 069, which occurred a couple of …

Possible X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions in a tidal disruption event candidate

J Chakraborty, E Kara, M Masterson… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered phenomenon associated
with supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. They are high-amplitude soft X-ray …

Tormund's return: Hints of quasi-periodic eruption features from a recent optical tidal disruption event

E Quintin, NA Webb, S Guillot, G Miniutti… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeating thermal X-ray bursts associated with
accreting massive black holes, the precise underlying physical mechanisms of which are still …

Host galaxy properties of quasi-periodically erupting X-ray sources

T Wevers, DR Pasham, P Jalan, S Rakshit… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered phenomenon, the
nature of which remains unclear. Based on their discovery in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) …

The 450 Day X-ray monitoring of the changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+ 654

C Ricci, M Loewenstein, E Kara… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract 1ES 1927+ 654 is a nearby active galactic nucleus (AGN) that underwent a
changing-look event in early 2018, developing prominent broad Balmer lines that were …

Probing orbits of stellar mass objects deep in galactic nuclei with quasiperiodic eruptions. II. Population analysis

C Zhou, B Zhong, Y Zeng, L Huang, Z Pan - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft x-ray bursts with recurrence times
about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. Though the debates on the origin of …