CH Cygni I: Observational Evidence for a Disk-Jet Connection

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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7 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the ApJ

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10.1086/345901

We investigate the role of accretion in the production of jets in the symbiotic star CH Cygni. Assuming that the rapid stochastic optical variations in CH Cygni come from the accretion disk, as in cataclysmic variables, we use changes in this flickering to diagnose the state of the disk in 1997. At that time, CH Cyg dropped to a very low optical state, and Karovska et al. report that a radio jet was produced. For approximately one year after the jet production, the amplitude of the fastest (time scales of minutes) variations was significantly reduced, although smooth, hour-time-scale variations were still present. This light curve evolution indicates that the inner disk may have been disrupted, or emission from this region suppressed, in association with the mass-ejection event. We describe optical spectra which support this interpretation of the flickering changes. The simultaneous state change, jet ejection, and disk disruption suggests a comparison between CH Cygni and some black-hole-candidate X-ray binaries that show changes in the inner disk radius in conjunction with discrete ejection events on a wide range of time scales (e.g., the microquasar GRS 1915+105 and XTE J1550-564).

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