A transient large-scale relativistic radio jet from GX 339-4

Details A transient large-scale relativistic radio jet from GX 339-4 A transient large-scale relativistic radio jet from GX 339-4

2003-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311452v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:L52-L56,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication as a letter in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07435.x

We report on the formation and evolution of a large-scale, synchrotron-emitting jet from the black hole candidate and X-ray binary system GX 339-4. In 2002 May, the source moved from a low/hard to a very high X-ray state, contemporaneously exhibiting a very bright optically thin radio flare. Further observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array have tracked the formation of a collimated structure extending to about 12 arcsec, with apparent velocity greater than 0.9c. The luminosity of the outflow seems to be rapidly decreasing; these observations confirm that transient large-scale jets are likely to be common events triggered by X-ray state transitions in black hole X-ray binaries.

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