Two transient X-ray Quasi-Periodic Oscillations separated by an intermediate state in 1H 0707-495 [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07186


In the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495, recently a transient quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signal has been detected at a high statistical significance. Here, we reanalyze the same set of XMM-Newton data measured on 2008 February 4 with the Weighted-Wavelet Z-transform (WWZ) method. In addition to confirm the previous finding we find the other QPO signal in a separated X-ray emission phase at a confidence level of $\sim 4.1\sigma$. The frequency ratio between these two signals is $\sim 2:1$. These two signals also appeared, though at lower significance levels, in XMM-Newton measurements on 2007 May 14 and 2010 September 17, individually. This is the first time to observe two separated transient X-ray QPOs in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), which sheds new light on the physics of accreting supermassive black holes.

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P. Zhang, P. Zhang, N. Liao, et. al.
Wed, 22 Mar 2017
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Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures