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硬态和静止黑洞X射线双星的深射电观测

A deep radio survey of hard state and quiescent black hole X-ray binaries

J. C. A. Miller-Jones, P. G. Jonker, T. J. Maccarone, G. Nelemans, D. E. Calvelo

摘要:

我们已经进行了深射电调查的样品黑洞X射线双星在硬和静态,以确定是否有任何系统是足够明亮的天体测量的后续高灵敏度甚长基线干涉(VLBI)阵列。一个硬态系统Swift J1753.5-0127在0.5 mJy/梁的水平下被检测到。所有11个静止系统均未检测到。在具有最高预测静态无线电亮度的三种情况下(GRO J 0422 +32,XTE J1118+480和GRO J1655-40),扩展的超大阵列的新功能被用来达到低至2.6微焦/波束的噪声水平。三个源均未被检测到,3 σ上限分别为8.3、7.8和14.2微焦/束。这些观测结果代表了迄今为止对黑洞X射线双星静态射电辐射的最严格的限制。源距离、观测时的静态X射线光度以及射电和X射线光度之间经验相关性的幂律指数的不确定性,使得不可能确定这三个源在射电波段的亮度是否明显低于预期。因此,对于所有黑洞的X射线双星来说,这种相关性是否一直保持到静止状态还不清楚。

英文摘要:

We have conducted a deep radio survey of a sample of black hole X-ray binaries in the hard and quiescent states, to determine whether any systems were sufficiently bright for astrometric follow-up with high-sensitivity very long baseline interferometric (VLBI) arrays. The one hard-state system, Swift J1753.5-0127, was detected at a level of 0.5 mJy/beam. All eleven quiescent systems were not detected. In the three cases with the highest predicted quiescent radio brightnesses (GRO J0422+32, XTE J1118+480, and GRO J1655-40), the new capabilities of the Expanded Very Large Array were used to reach noise levels as low as 2.6 microJy/beam. None of the three sources were detected, to 3-sigma upper limits of 8.3, 7.8, and 14.2 microJy/beam, respectively. These observations represent the most stringent constraints to date on quiescent radio emission from black hole X-ray binaries. The uncertainties in the source distances, quiescent X-ray luminosities at the times of the observations, and in the power-law index of the empirical correlation between radio and X-ray luminosities, make it impossible to determine whether these three sources are significantly less luminous in the radio band than expected. Thus it is not clear whether that correlation holds all the way down to quiescence for all black hole X-ray binaries.

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