No evidence for a supermassive black hole binary in GSN 069

arXiv:2608.05534 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-06 · Read on arXiv

Yuhe Zeng, Zhen Pan, Bin Liu, Cong Zhou

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-08-06

Comments: 11 pages, 5 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• AGN — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Two-body relaxation in the EMRI-TDE disk model for Quasi Periodic Eruptions
• Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals in Light of Quasi-periodic Eruptions: Milli-Hertz Gravitational Wave Background
• QPEs from Warped Disk Collisions with EMRIs: Brightness-Recurrence Diagram and Gravitational-Wave Follow-up
• Quasi-periodic Eruptions from Stellar-mass Black Holes Impacting Accretion Disks in Galactic Nuclei
• Alive and Strongly Kicking: Stable X-ray Quasi-Periodic Eruptions from eRO-QPE2 over 3.5 Years
• Dynamics in Nuclear Stellar Clusters: The Impact of Collisions and Disrupted Binaries
• Multimessenger prospects of quasi-periodic eruptions
• A Note on QPE Timing: False Alarms in O-C

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