Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-03-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters.
Scientific paper
We present first pc-scale radio imaging of the radio-quiet candidate binary black hole system SDSS J1536+0441. The observations were carried out by the European VLBI Network at the frequency of 5 GHz and allowed to image SDSS J1536+0441 with a resolution of about 10 mas (50 pc). Two compact radio cores are detected at the position of the kpc-scale components VLA-A and VLA-B, proving the presence of two compact active nuclei with radio luminosity about 10^{40} erg/s, thus ruling out the possibility that the two radio sources are both powered by one 0.1 pc binary black hole. From a comparison with published 8.5 GHz flux densities we derived an estimate of the radio spectral index of the two pc-scale cores. Both cores have flat or inverted spectral index and, at least for the case of VLA-A, we can rule out the possibility that synchrotron self-absorption is responsible for the inverted radio spectrum. We suggest that thermal free-free emission from an X-ray heated disk wind may be powering the radio emission in VLA-A.
Bondi Marco
Perez-Torres Miguel Angel
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