jets from quiescent stellar black holes elena gallo ucsb
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Jets from quiescent stellar black holes Elena Gallo UCSB. Black hole X-ray binary jets. Hard X-ray state : Persistent radio emission with flat radio-mm spectrum Partially self-absorbed synchrotron from conical outflow ( Blandford & Königl‘79; Hjellming & Johnston‘88; Kaiser‘06 ) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Jets from quiescent stellar Jets from quiescent stellar black holesblack holes
Elena GalloElena GalloUCSBUCSB
Black hole X-ray binary jetsHard X-ray state:
- Persistent radio emission with flat radio-mm spectrum
- Partially self-absorbed
synchrotron from conical outflow (Blandford & Königl‘79; Hjellming & Johnston‘88; Kaiser‘06)
- Jet interpretation confirmed by VLBI in Cyg X-1 & GRS 1915+105 (1e-2 LEdd)
Cyg X-1Stirling et al.‘01
GRS 1915+105Dhawan et al.’01Fuchs et al.’03
Radio/X-ray correlation in hard state
Corbel et al. ‘03; Gallo, Fender & Pooley ‘03
radio flux density - scaled to 1 kpc (mJy)
X-ray flux density - scaled to 1 kpc (Crab)
V 404 Cyg GX339-4J1118+4804U 1543-47GS 1354-641E 1740.9J1550-564Cygnus X-1J0422+32GRS 1758-258
LradioLx0.70.1
Radio/X-ray correlation in quiescence
Simultaneous VLA/Chandra observations of A0620-00 (10 MSun BH at 10-8.5 LEdd)
F8.5GHz = 51 ± 7 mJy
Lowest radio luminosity measured for X-ray binary
Interpreted as synchrotron emission from a persistent outflow
Gallo et al. ‘06
Radio/X-ray correlation in quiescence
A0620-00
Lx=7x1030 erg/sec
Lradio=7x1026 erg/sec
Non-linear radio/X-ray correlation holds down to 10-8.5 LEdd
Quenched radio emission above 10-2 LEdd
Gallo et al. ‘06
Jet power via jet/ISM interaction
Jet-powered radio nebula around Cygnus X-1
Gallo et al. ‘05, Nature
Jet power via jet/ISM interaction
Kaiser & Alexander ’97
104< Tbow< 2x106
Jet/ISM in pressure balance
constant Pjet
Pjet > 0.2 x 1037 erg /sec= 0.2 LX,bol
Jet power via jet/ISM interaction
Follow-up optical (ING) observations confirm the shock-compressed nature of the gas in the arc
Refinement of shock velocity trough optical lines ratios gives: Pjet ~ 0.5 LX,bol
Russell, Fender & Gallo in prep.
Cyg X-1
A0620-00
Jet power in quiescence
Jets in quiescence A look with Spitzer
Hard/quiescent state jets: optically thick-to-thin break in the mid-IR, thus Spizter IRAC/MIPS
Muno & Mauerhan claim evidence for excess mid IR emission due to circumbinary material in 4 quiescent X-ray binaries
Muno & Mauerhan ‘06
Jets in quiescence A look with Spitzer
Gallo et al., in preparation
Re-analysis of the MIPS data gives higher values/lower limits
Jet interpretation for the mid-IR excess as likely (yet strictly simultaneous data required)
Confirms prediction of jet spectral break near K band (Russell et al’06)
Jet power in quiescence
A0620-00
Lacc = 6x1035 y (/0.1) erg/sec
Pjet = 4x1035 erg/sec
(derived from Lradio following Heinz & Grimm 2004)
If Pjet comparable to Lacc
then the jet must affect the dynamics of the accretion flow
pure ADAF solutions thus ruled out
Future work: quiescent super-massive black holes
Large Chandra proposal (~450 ksec; PI: Treu) approved to observe 86 spheroidals in the Virgo cluster, covering the entire HST/ACS VCS (Cote’ et al.)
Look for highly sub-Eddington accretion-powered nuclear emission (5.3 ksec/target with ACIS-S: sensitive down to Eddington for a neutron star)
Plus: Spitzer (awarded) and possibly Keck and VLA
Aim: to bridge the gap between inactive galaxies and AGN in a neat nearby sample