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most citedProbing orbits of stellar mass objects deep in galactic nuclei with quasi-periodic eruptions

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astro-ph.HE2026

Secular Evolution of Quasiperiodic Eruptions: eRO-QPE2

Zirui Zhang, Cong Zhou, Zhen Pan

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurrent soft X-ray flares from galactic nuclei. In this work, we analyze both the quiescent and eruption emission of eRO-QPE2, using 11 XMM-Ne…

astro-ph.HE2026

No evidence for a supermassive black hole binary in GSN 069

Yuhe Zeng, Zhen Pan, Bin Liu +1

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurrent soft X-ray flares from galactic nuclei and provide a new time-domain probe of stellar-mass objects (SMOs) orbiting supermassive black…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Note on QPE Timing: False Alarms in O-C

Cong Zhou, Zirui Zhang, Zhen Pan +1

O-C timing analysis is a useful diagnostic tool for quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs), but their interpretation depends sensitively on the integer cycle number assigned to each erupt…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Dynamical Measurement of Supermassive Black Hole Masses: QPE Timing Method

Cong Zhou, Zhen Pan, Ning Jiang +1

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. More and more analyses show tha…

astro-ph.HE2024

Secular evolution of quasi-periodic eruptions

Cong Zhou, Yuhe Zeng, Zhen Pan

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. More and more analyses show tha…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 35 cited

Probing orbits of stellar mass objects deep in galactic nuclei with quasi-periodic eruptions -- II: population analysis

Cong Zhou, Binyu Zhong, Yuhe Zeng +2

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few hours to a few weeks from galactic nuclei. Though the debates on the origi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 47 cited

Probing orbits of stellar mass objects deep in galactic nuclei with quasi-periodic eruptions

Cong Zhou, Lei Huang, Kangrou Guo +2

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are intense repeating soft X-ray bursts with recurrence times about a few to ten hours from nearby galactic nuclei. The origin of QPEs is still uncl…