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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 629, Issue 1, Pages 403-407Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1086/431174
Keywords
accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; stars : oscillations; X-rays : binaries
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Three main types of low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations (LFQPOs) have been observed in black hole candidates. We reanalyzed RXTE data of the bright systems XTE J1859+ 226, XTE J1550 - 564, and GX 339 - 4, which show all three types. We review the main properties of these LFQPOs and show that they follow a well-defined correlation in a fractional rms versus softness diagram. We show that the frequency behavior through this correlation presents clear analogies with that of horizontal-, normal-, and flaring-branch oscillations in Z sources, with the inverse of the fractional rms being the equivalent of the curvilinear coordinate S-z through the Z track.
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