QPOs in Cataclysmic Variables and in X-ray Binaries

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2005-03-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503151v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Revised version. Astronomy & Astrophysics (Letters), in press

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200500163

Recent observations, reported by Warner and Woudt, of Dwarf Nova Oscillations (DNOs) exhibiting frequency drift, period doubling, and 1:2:3 harmonic structure, can be understood as disc oscillations that are excited by perturbations at the spin frequency of the white dwarf or of its equatorial layers. Similar quasi-periodic disc oscillations in black hole low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) transients in a 2:3 frequency ratio show no evidence of frequency drift and correspond to two separate modes of disc oscillation excited by an internal resonance. Just as no effects of general relativity play a role in white dwarf DNOs, no stellar surface or magnetic field effects need be invoked to explain the black hole QPOs.

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