Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-01-19
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 322 (2001) L23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication as a Letter in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04362.x
We present observations of the X-ray transient XTE J1118+480 during its Low/Hard X-ray state outburst in 2000, at radio and sub-millimetre wavelengths with the VLA, Ryle Telescope, MERLIN and JCMT. The high-resolution MERLIN observations reveal all the radio emission (at 5 GHz) to come from a compact core with physical dimensions smaller than 65*d(kpc) AU. The combined radio data reveal a persistent and inverted radio spectrum, with spectral index \~+0.5. The source is also detected at 350 GHz, on an extrapolation of the radio spectrum. Flat or inverted radio spectra are now known to be typical of the Low/Hard X-ray state, and are believed to arise in synchrotron emission from a partially self-absorbed jet. Comparison of the radio and sub-millimetre data with reported near-infrared observations suggest that the synchrotron emission from the jet extends to the near-infrared, or possibly even optical regimes. In this case the ratio of jet power to total X-ray luminosity is likely to be P_J/L_X >> 0.01, depending on the radiative efficiency and relativistic Doppler factor of the jet. Based on these arguments we conclude that during the period of our observations XTE J1118+480 was producing a powerful outflow which extracted a large fraction of the total accretion power.
Deane J. R.
Fender Rob P.
Hjellming Robert M.
Ogley Richard N.
Pooley Guy G.
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