Epicyclic Frequencies and Resonant Phenomena Near Black Holes: The Current Status

2006/12/27 by Alikram N. Aliev, Aliev, Alikram N.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0612730

To appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 23-29 Jule 2006, 3pp., World Scientific, Singapore (2007)

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Abstract

We briefly discuss the theory of epicyclic motion near rotating black holes and its relation to the origin of high frequency Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) seen in many cases of accreting black hole binaries. We also point out some new frequency ratios predicted by the theory.

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