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Quasi-periodic oscillations
In high-energy (X-ray) astronomy, quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) refer to the way the X-ray light seems to flicker. Low frequency QPOs may be around 1 hertz, whereas high frequency QPOs maybe around several hundred hertz.
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