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球状星团M54中的中等质量黑洞候选者

The Candidate Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in the Globular Cluster M54

J. M. Wrobel, J. E. Greene, L. C. Ho

摘要:

Ibata等人报告了银河系球状星团M54的密度和运动学尖点的证据,可能是由于存在一个9400太阳质量的黑洞。M54的候选中等质量黑洞(IMBH)上的吸积辐射特征可以支持它的存在。如果M54中存在IMBH,那么它的爱丁顿比为L(0.3-8 keV)/ L(Edd)< 1.4 x 10^(-10),与M15中的IMBH比更接近,而不是G1中的IMBH。根据NRAO甚大天阵的新成像,候选IMBH的亮度为L(8.5 GHz)< 3.6 x 10^29 ergs/s(3 sigma)。在M54附近发现的两个背景活动星系可以作为其团内介质的探测器。

英文摘要:

Ibata et al. reported evidence for density and kinematic cusps in the Galactic globular cluster M54, possibly due to the presence of a 9400 solar-mass black hole. Radiative signatures of accretion onto M54's candidate intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) could bolster the case for its existence. Analysis of new Chandra and recent Hubble Space Telescope astrometry rules out the X-ray counterpart to the candidate IMBH suggested by Ibata et al. If an IMBH exists in M54, then it has an Eddington ratio of L(0.3-8 keV) / L(Edd) < 1.4 x 10^(-10), more similar to that of the candidate IMBH in M15 than that in G1. From new imaging with the NRAO Very Large Array, the luminosity of the candidate IMBH is L(8.5 GHz) < 3.6 x 10^29 ergs/s (3 sigma). Two background active galaxies discovered toward M54 could serve as probes of its intracluster medium.

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