On the correlation between radio and X-ray flux in Low/Hard state Black Holes

Details On the correlation between radio and X-ray flux in Low/Hard state Black Holes On the correlation between radio and X-ray flux in Low/Hard state Black Holes

2002-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207551v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the 4th Microquasar Workshop, eds. Ph Durouchoux, Y. Fuchs and J. Rodriguez, published by t

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Radio emission from X-ray binary systems (XRBs) has developed in recent years from being peculiar phenomenon to being recognised as an ubiquitous property of several classes of XRBs. In this scenario the synchrotron emission is interpreted as the radiative signature of jet-like outflows, some or all of which may possess relativistic bulk motion. We have analysed a collection of quasi-simultaneous radio/X-ray observations of Black Holes in the Low/Hard X-ray state, finding evidence of a clear correlation between their fluxes over many orders of magnitude in luminosity. Given that the correlation extends down to GX 339-4 and V404 Cyg in quiescence, we can confidently assert that even at accretion rates as low as ~ 10^{-5} dot{m}_{Edd} a powerful jet is being formed. The normalisation of the correlation is very similar across a sample of nine sources, implying that it is nearly independent of jet inclination angle. Remarkably, V 404 Cyg is the second source (after GX 339-4) to show the correlation S_{radio} proportional to S_{X}^{+0.7} from quiescent level up to close to the High/Soft state transition. Moreover, assuming the same physics and accretion:outflow coupling for all of these systems, the simplest interpretation for the observed scenario is that outflows in Low/Hard state do not have large bulk Lorentz factors.

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