On the Origin of Radio Emission in the X-ray States of XTE J1650-500 during the 2001-2002 Outburst

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2004-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409154v1

Astrophys.J.617:1272-1283,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal. 33 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/425650

We report on simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of the black hole candidate XTE J1650-500 during the course of its 2001-2002 outburst. The scheduling of the observations allowed us to sample the properties of XTE J1650-50 in different X-ray spectral states, namely the hard state, the steep power-law state and the thermal dominant state, according to the recent spectral classification of McClintock & Remillard. The hard state is consistent with a compact jet dominating the spectral energy distribution at radio frequencies; however, the current data suggest that its contribution as direct synchrotron emission at higher energies may not be significant. In that case, XTE J1650-50 may be dominated by Compton processes (either inverse Comptonization of thermal disk photons and/or SSC from the base of the compact jet) in the X-ray regime. We, surprisingly, detect a faint level of radio emission in the thermal dominant state that may be consistent with the emission of previously ejected material interacting with the interstellar medium, similar (but on a smaller angular scale) to what was observed in XTE J1550-564 by Corbel and co-workers. Based on the properties of radio emission in the steep power-law state of XTE J1650-50, and taking into account the behavior of other black hole candidates (namely GX 339-4, XTE J1550-564, and XTE J1859+226) while in the intermediate and steep power-law states, we are able to present a general pattern of behavior for the origin of radio emission in these two states that could be important for understanding the accretion-ejection coupling very close to the black hole event horizon.

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