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Two Transient X-Ray Quasi-periodic Oscillations Separated by an Intermediate State in 1H 0707-495

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 853, Issue 2, Pages -

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa29a

Keywords

galaxies: active; galaxies: individual (1H 0707-495); galaxies: nuclei; X-rays: galaxies

Funding

  1. National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB837000]
  2. National Key Program for Research and Development [2016YFA0400200]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11525313, 11433009, 11573071, 11673067, 11733009, U1738124]
  4. Key Laboratory of Astroparticle Physics of Yunnan Province [2016DG006]
  5. China postdoctoral science Foundation [2017M621859]

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In the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495, recently a transient quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signal with a frequency of similar to 2.6 x 10(-4) Hz has been detected at a high statistical significance. Here, we reanalyze the same set of XMM-Newton data observed on 2008 February 4 with the weighted-wavelet Z-transform method. In addition to confirming the previous findings, we also find another QPO signal with a frequency of similar to 1.2 x 10-4 Hz in a separated X-ray emission phase at the significance level of similar to 3.7 sigma. The signal is also found fitting an autoregressive model though at a lower significance. The frequency ratio between these two signals is similar to 2: 1. The analysis of other XMM-Newton measurements of 1H 0707-495 also reveals the presence of the similar to 2.6 x10(-4) Hz (similar to 1.2 x 10(-4) Hz) QPO signal on 2007 May 14 (2010 September 17) at the significance level of similar to 4.2 sigma (similar to 3.5 sigma). The QPO frequency found in this work follows the fQPO-MBH relation reported in previous works spanning from stellar mass to supermassive black holes. This is the first observation of two separated transient X-ray QPO signals in active galactic nuclei, which sheds a new light on the physics of accreting supermassive black holes.

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