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球状星团M22中的两个恒星质量黑洞

Two stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster M22

Jay Strader, Laura Chomiuk, Thomas Maccarone, James Miller-Jones, Anil Seth

摘要:

在一个典型的球状星团中,可能会形成数百个恒星质量的黑洞,除了一个之外,所有黑洞都将通过动力学相互作用被弹出。银河系球状星团中缺乏由一个黑洞和另一个恒星组成的X射线双星(“黑洞/X射线双星”),这为这一观点提供了一些观测支持,尽管许多中子星/X射线双星是已知的。虽然在其他星系周围的球状星团中也发现了一些黑洞,但它们的质量无法确定,有些可能是通过奇异机制形成的中等质量黑洞。在这里,我们报告了银河系球状星团M22中存在两个平谱射电源,我们认为这些物体是恒星质量的黑洞(每个黑洞的质量比太阳大10-20倍),它们正在吸积物质。我们发现这些黑洞的无线电与X射线通量的比率很高,这与球状星团中黑洞的预测质量比外面的大相一致。在一个星团中发现两个黑洞表明,黑洞的弹射并不像大多数模型预测的那样有效,我们认为M22可能包含大约5-100个黑洞。M22的大核心半径可能是由黑洞产生的热量引起的。

英文摘要:

Hundreds of stellar-mass black holes likely form in a typical globular star cluster, with all but one predicted to be ejected through dynamical interactions. Some observational support for this idea is provided by the lack of X-ray-emitting binary stars comprising one black hole and one other star ("black-hole/X-ray binaries") in Milky Way globular clusters, even though many neutron-star/X-ray binaries are known. Although a few black holes have been seen in globular clusters around other galaxies, the masses of these cannot be determined, and some may be intermediate-mass black holes that form through exotic mechanisms. Here we report the presence of two flat-spectrum radio sources in the Milky Way globular cluster M22, and we argue that these objects are black holes of stellar mass (each ~ 10-20 times more massive than the Sun) that are accreting matter. We find a high ratio of radio-to-X-ray flux for these black holes, consistent with the larger predicted masses of black holes in globular clusters compared to those outside. The identification of two black holes in one cluster shows that the ejection of black holes is not as efficient as predicted by most models, and we argue that M22 may contain a total population of ~ 5-100 black holes. The large core radius of M22 could arise from heating produced by the black holes.

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