Correlated radio:X-ray emission in the hard states of Galactic microquasars

Details Correlated radio:X-ray emission in the hard states of Galactic microquasars Correlated radio:X-ray emission in the hard states of Galactic microquasars

2003-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304387v2

Astrophys.J. 593 (2003) 452-462

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Minor typos corrected in matter as well as figures. 12 pages, 5 figures, to appear in ApJ, August 2003 (vol. 593)

Scientific paper

10.1086/376497

We present results of our study of correlated radio and X-ray emission in two black hole candidates and Galactic microquasars GRS 1915+105 and Cygnus X-1 in their steady long term hard states, along with Cygnus X-3 (using data obtained from RXTE-ASM, CGRO-BATSE and GBI). We detect a pivotal behavior in the X-ray spectrum of GRS 1915+105, correlated to the radio emission. Similar to the results obtained for Cygnus X-3, the flux of X-rays softer than the pivoting point correlates with the radio emission, while the corresponding harder X-ray flux anti-correlates with both the radio and the softer X-ray emission, in this state. We examine all the previously reported correlations of X-ray properties with the radio emission in Galactic microquasars and argue that these are consistent with a general picture where a spectral pivoting is a common feature in these sources with the shape of the spectrum determining the flux of radio emission, during the hard states. We also detect a general monotonic increase in the radio emission of these sources with the soft X-ray emission spanning about 5 orders of magnitude. We qualitatively explain these findings with a Two Component Advective Flow model where the location of a boundary layer between the thin disk and the Comptonizing region determines the spectral shape and also the amount of outflow.

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