Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event

M Nicholl, DR Pasham, A Mummery, M Guolo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are luminous bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of
galaxies, repeating on timescales of hours to weeks,,,–. The mechanism behind these rare …

Science with a small two-band UV-photometry mission III: Active Galactic Nuclei and nuclear transients

M Zajaček, B Czerny, VK Jaiswal, M Štolc… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
In this review, the third one in the series focused on a small two-band UV-photometry
mission, we assess possibilities for a small UV two-band photometry mission in studying …

Repeating nuclear transients as candidate electromagnetic counterparts of LISA extreme mass ratio inspirals

S Kejriwal, V Witzany, M Zajaček… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the primary targets for the recently adopted
millihertz gravitational-wave observatory LISA. Some previous studies have argued that a …

The more the merrier: SRG/eROSITA discovers two further galaxies showing X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions

R Arcodia, Z Liu, A Merloni, A Malyali, A Rau… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel addition to the group of extragalactic
transients. With only a select number of known sources, and many more models published …

X-Ray Quasi-periodic Eruptions and Tidal Disruption Events Prefer Similar Host Galaxies

T Wevers, KD French, AI Zabludoff… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In the past 5 yr, six X-ray quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) sources have been discovered in the
nuclei of nearby galaxies. Their origin remains an open question. We present Multi Unit …

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 …

A Potential Second Shutoff from AT2018fyk: An Updated Orbital Ephemeris of the Surviving Star under the Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Event Paradigm

D Pasham, ER Coughlin, M Guolo… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018fyk showed a rapid dimming event 500 days after
discovery, followed by a rebrightening roughly 700 days later. It has been hypothesized that …

Testing EMRI Models for Quasi-periodic Eruptions with 3.5 yr of Monitoring eRO-QPE1

J Chakraborty, R Arcodia, E Kara… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are luminous X-ray outbursts recurring on hour timescales,
observed from the nuclei of a growing handful of nearby low-mass galaxies. Their physical …

Probing orbits of stellar mass objects deep in galactic nuclei with quasiperiodic eruptions

C Zhou, L Huang, K Guo, YP Li, Z Pan - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense, repeating, soft x-ray bursts with recurrence
times of about a few to ten hours from nearby galactic nuclei. The origin of QPEs is still …

Constraints on the narrow-line region of the X-ray quasi-periodic eruption source GSN 069

KC Patra, W Lu, Y Ma, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The origins of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are poorly understood, although most
theoretical explanations invoke an accretion disc around a supermassive black hole. The …