26-30 June 2023
Centro Congressi Federico II
Europe/Rome timezone

Repeating TDEs in the quasi-periodic erupter GSN 069: Updates on QPE's properties and long-term evolution

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Aula Magna (Centro Congressi Federico II)

Aula Magna

Centro Congressi Federico II

Via Partenope, 36, Napoli, Italy

Speaker

Dr. Giovanni Miniutti (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CISI-INTA, Spain)

Description

X-ray Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are a novel X-ray variability phenomenon associated with supermassive black holes. QPEs are short-lived, high-amplitude, soft X-ray bursts typically recurring every few hours over an otherwise stable quiescent level. QPEs were first observed in the (repeating) TDE candidate GSN 069 by XMM-Newton (2019), and they have now been detected in the nuclei of several other galaxies. In my presentation, I will report on the current status of QPE's properties and long-term evolution in the best-monitored galaxy GSN 069, highlighting a possible QPE-TDE connection that may apply to other QPE sources as well.

Primary authors

Dr. Giovanni Miniutti (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CISI-INTA, Spain) Dr. Margherita Giustini (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Spain) Dr. Riccardo Arcodia (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge (MA), USA) Richard D. Saxton (Telespazio-Vega UK for ESA, European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Spain)

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