Is the `IR Coincidence' Just That?

Details Is the `IR Coincidence' Just That? Is the `IR Coincidence' Just That?

2005-03-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503334v1

Astrophys.J. 626 (2005) 1006-1014

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To Appear in the July 2005 Astrophysical Journal; 9 Pages, uses emulateapj.sty

Scientific paper

10.1086/430137

(Abridged) Motch (1985) suggested that in the hard state of GX 339-4 the soft X-ray power-law extrapolated backward in energy agrees with the IR flux. Corbel & Fender (2002) showed that the hard state radio power-law extrapolated forward in energy meets the extrapolated X-ray power-law at an IR break, which was explicitly observed twice in GX 339-4. This `IR coincidence' has been cited as further evidence that a jet might make a significant contribution to the X-rays in hard state systems. We explore this hypothesis with a series of simultaneous radio/X-ray observations of GX 339-4, taken during its 1997, 1999, and 2002 hard states. We fit these spectra, in detector space, with a simple, but remarkably successful, doubly broken power-law that requires an IR spectral break. For these observations, the break position and the integrated radio/IR flux have stronger dependences upon the X-rays than the simplest jet predictions. If one allows for a softening of the X-ray power law with increasing flux, then the jet model agrees with the correlation. We also find evidence that the radio/X-ray fcorrelation previously observed in GX 339-4 shows a `parallel track' for the 2002 hard state. The slope of the 2002 correlation is consistent with prior observations; however, the radio amplitude is reduced. We then examine the correlation in Cyg X-1 through the use of radio data, obtained with the Ryle radio telescope, and RXTE data, from the ASM and pointed observations. We again find evidence of `parallel tracks', and here they are associated with `failed transitions' to the soft state. We also find that for Cyg X-1 the radio flux is more fundamentally correlated with the hard X-ray flux.

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