Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2011-01-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
10 pages, 12 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Scientific paper
We explore the use of the bispectrum for understanding quasiperiodic oscillations. The bispectrum is a statistic which probes the relations between the relative phases of the Fourier spectrum at different frequencies. The use of the bispectrum allows us to break the degeneracies between different models for time series which produce identical power spectra. We look at data from several observations of GRS 1915+105 when the source shows strong quasi-periodic oscillations and strong broadband noise components in its power spectrum. We show that, despite strong similarities in the power spectrum, the bispectra can differ strongly. In all cases, there are frequency ranges where the bicoherence, a measure of nonlinearity, is strong for frequencies involving the frequency of the quasi-periodic oscillations, indicating that the quasi-periodic oscillations are coupled to the noise components, rather than being generated independently. We compare the bicoherences from the data to simple models, finding some qualitative similarities.
Coppi Paolo S.
Maccarone Thomas J.
Uttley Philip
van der Klis Michiel
Wijnands Rudy
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