Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars

Low to high frequency QPOs from sources containing stellar mass black holes

by Prof. Indranil Chattopadhyay (ARIES, Nainital)

Asia/Kolkata
AG-69 (https://tifr-res-in.zoom.us/j/97278721020?pwd=IMBfajtfounN28rlGpTC0Gg4SDaalO.1 Meeting ID: 972 7872 1020 Passcode: 659023)

AG-69

https://tifr-res-in.zoom.us/j/97278721020?pwd=IMBfajtfounN28rlGpTC0Gg4SDaalO.1 Meeting ID: 972 7872 1020 Passcode: 659023

Description
Black-hole microquasars generally show low frequency quasi periodic oscillations (LFQPO) in their hard and intermediate spectral states. LFQPO are oscillations in the hard-powerlaw part of the X-ray spectra, where the oscillation frequencies are in the range of just under 1 Hz to about 20 Hz, but generally around few Hz. LFQPOs have been extensively studied. Even relations between QPO frequency and the spectral index of the power law tail have been emperically obtained by numerous observations.  However  HFQPO (>50 Hz) have been detected only in a few observations. In this talk we show that shock oscillations in transonic accretion discs around rapidly rotating blackholes can explain both low- and high-frequency QPOs.