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M31中超铝质恒星质量微类星体的亮射电辐射

Bright radio emission from an ultraluminous stellar-mass microquasar in M31

Matthew J. Middleton, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Sera Markoff, Rob Fender, Martin Henze, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Anna M. M. Scaife, Timothy P. Roberts, Dominic Wa… 展开作者

Matthew J. Middleton, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Sera Markoff, Rob Fender, Martin Henze, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Anna M. M. Scaife, Timothy P. Roberts, Dominic Walton, John Carpenter, Jean-Pierre Macquart, Geoffrey C. Bower, Mark Gurwell, Wolfgang Pietsch, Frank Haberl, Jonathan Harris, Michael Daniel, Junayd Miah, Chris Done, John Morgan, Hugh Dickinson, Phil Charles, Vadim Burwitz, Massimo Della Valle, Michael Freyberg, Jochen Greiner, Margarita Hernanz, Dieter H. Hartmann, Despina Hatzidimitriou, Arno Riffeser, Gloria Sala, Stella Seitz, Pablo Reig, Arne Rau, Marina Orio, David Titterington, Keith Grainge

摘要:

超亮X射线源(光度< 10^40 erg/s)的一个子集被认为是由气体吸积到质量约为5-20 M太阳的黑洞上提供动力的,可能是通过吸积盘。X射线和无线电辐射在这样的银河系源中耦合,无线电辐射起源于一个相对论性喷流,被认为是从黑洞附近的最内部区域发射的,当物质的下落速度接近理论上的最大值(爱丁顿极限)时,辐射最强。在银河系中只有四个这样的最大源是已知的,而软X射线在星际介质中的吸收排除了确定导致喷流喷射的事件的因果顺序。在这里,我们报告了对一个明亮的新X射线源的射电和X射线观测结果,它的峰值亮度可以超过附近星系M31中的10^39 erg/s。射电光度非常高,在几十分钟的时间尺度上显示出可变性,认为该源是高度紧凑的,并由接近爱丁顿极限的恒星质量黑洞吸积提供动力。对这些源的持续无线电和X射线监测应该揭示吸积流和强大喷流排放之间的因果关系。

英文摘要:

A subset of ultraluminous X-ray sources (those with luminosities < 10^40 erg/s) are thought to be powered by the accretion of gas onto black holes with masses of ~5-20 M_solar, probably via an accretion disc. The X-ray and radio emission are coupled in such Galactic sources, with the radio emission originating in a relativistic jet thought to be launched from the innermost regions near the black hole, with the most powerful emission occurring when the rate of infalling matter approaches a theoretical maximum (the Eddington limit). Only four such maximal sources are known in the Milky Way, and the absorption of soft X-rays in the interstellar medium precludes determining the causal sequence of events that leads to the ejection of the jet. Here we report radio and X-ray observations of a bright new X-ray source whose peak luminosity can exceed 10^39 erg/s in the nearby galaxy, M31. The radio luminosity is extremely high and shows variability on a timescale of tens of minutes, arguing that the source is highly compact and powered by accretion close to the Eddington limit onto a stellar mass black hole. Continued radio and X-ray monitoring of such sources should reveal the causal relationship between the accretion flow and the powerful jet emission.

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