2025ApJ...985..242Z


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2025ApJ...985..242Z - Astrophys. J., 985, 242 (2025/June-1)

Secular Evolution of Quasiperiodic Eruptions.

ZHOU C., ZENG Y. and PAN Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

Quasiperiodic 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 that QPEs are the result of collisions between a stellar mass object (SMO; a stellar mass black hole or a main-sequence star) and an accretion disk around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in galactic nuclei. In this work, we propose an osculating trajectory method for efficiently calculating secular evolution of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) that are perturbed by an accretion disk. This method accelerates the calculation of EMRI orbital evolution by orders of magnitude and lays the foundation for analyzing long-term QPE observations. Applying this method to orbital analyses of GSN 069 and eRO-QPE2, the two most stable QPE sources, we find informative constraints on the SMBH mass, the radiation efficiency of QPEs, the SMO nature, the accretion disk surface density, and the accretion disk viscosity. Combining all the QPE sources available, we find the QPE EMRIs can be divided into two populations according to their orbital eccentricities, where the orbital periods and the SMBH masses in the low-eccentricity population follow a scaling relation of ${T}_{{\rm{obt}}}\propto {M}_{\bullet }^{n}$ with n ≈ 0.8.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Tidal disruption - Supermassive black holes - Active galactic nuclei - General relativity - Apsidal motion - Keplerian orbit

Simbad objects: 10

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Number of rows : 10
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 2dFGRS TGS564Z081 Sy2 01 19 08.6635573080 -34 11 30.527946780   16.226   15.275   ~ 159 0
2 SWIFT J023017.0+283603 X 02 30 17.06 +28 36 03.8           ~ 34 0
3 eRASSU J023147.2-102010 X 02 31 47.260 -10 20 10.31           ~ 72 0
4 eRASSU J023448.9-441931 X 02 34 48.970 -44 19 31.65           ~ 71 0
5 LEDA 1061293 AG? 02 49 17.3199268944 -04 12 52.076014416           ~ 65 0
6 eRASSt J044534-101201 X 04 45 34.1 -10 12 00           ~ 25 0
7 AT 2019qiz ev 04 46 37.880 -10 13 34.92           ~ 143 0
8 AT 2019vcb ev 12 38 56.38 +33 09 57.3           ~ 33 0
9 Z 160-104 SyG 13 02 00.1383745104 +27 46 57.854731080   15.4       ~ 159 0
10 1eRASS J140053.3-284558 X 14 00 53.3 -28 45 58           ~ 28 0

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