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SKA时代超亮X射线源的射电研究

Radio investigation of Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources in the SKA Era

Anna Wolter, Anthony P. Rushton, Mar Mezcua, David Cseh, Fabio Pintore, Isabella Prandoni, Zsolt Paragi, Luca Zampieri

摘要:

一种令人费解的奇异天体,人们已经知道了30多年,正在进入一个新的理解时代。我们已经发现了数百个超亮X射线源(ULX)-非核源的X射线光度超过“正常”大小的恒星黑洞(BH)的爱丁顿光度-我们正在朝着理解它们的发射机制取得进展。目前的解释意味着要么是一种特殊的吸积状态到恒星大小的BH或存在一个中等质量的BH,长期以来一直寻求恒星和超大质量BH之间的联系。这两种模型可能共存,因此研究这类物体将深入了解各种环境中的吸积领域,同时发现被认为是今天星系中心超大质量黑洞起源的原始种子黑洞的外观。由于源的通量相对较弱,无线电波段只被很少利用,但我们知道一些有趣的源既表现出扩展发射(如气泡和可能的喷流)和核心,也表现出观察到的瞬态行为。SKA的新时代将使我们对ULX内极端吸积的洞察力有重大改进。我们将详细调查已知的来源和研究新的和微弱的。当我们对ULX中的无线电发射有了全面的了解后,我们还可以使用SKA作为新的ULX候选者的发现工具。新的阵列将为发现提供巨大的空间:像目前已知的源将在高达50 Mpc的快照中被检测到,而不是在长时间的定点观测中被检测到。

英文摘要:

A puzzling class of exotic objects, which have been known about for more than 30 years, is reaching a new era of understanding. We have discovered hundreds of Ultra Luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) - non-nuclear sources with X-ray luminosity in excess of the Eddington luminosity for "normal" size stellar Black Holes (BH) - and we are making progresses towards understanding their emission mechanisms. The current explanations imply either a peculiar state of accretion onto a stellar size BH or the presence of an intermediate mass BH, the long-sought link between stellar and supermassive BHs. Both models might co-exist and therefore studying this class of object will give insight into the realm of accretion in a variety of environments and at the same time find look-alikes of the primordial seed BHs that are thought to be at the origin of todays supermassive BHs at the centre of galaxies. The radio band has been exploited only scantily due to the relative faint fluxes of the sources, but we know a number of interesting sources exhibiting both extended emission (like bubbles and possibly jets) and cores, as well as observed transient behaviour. The new eras of the SKA will lead us to a major improvement of our insight of the extreme accretion within ULXs. We will both investigate in detail known sources and research new and fainter ones. When we have reached a thorough understanding of radio emission in ULX we could also use the SKA as a discovery instrument for new ULX candidates. The new array will give an enormous space to discovery: sources like the ones currently known will be detected in a snapshot up to 50 Mpc instead of at 5 Mpc with long, pointed observations.

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