Disk-Jet Coupling in the 2017/2018 Outburst of the Galactic Black Hole Candidate X-Ray Binary MAXI J1535-571
Journal article, 2019
MAXI J1535-571 is a Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary that was discovered going into outburst in 2017 September. In this paper, we present comprehensive radio monitoring of this system using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, as well as the MeerKAT radio observatory, showing the evolution of the radio jet during its outburst. Our radio observations show the early rise and subsequent quenching of the compact jet as the outburst brightened and then evolved toward the soft state. We constrain the compact jet quenching factor to be more than 3.5 orders of magnitude. We also detected and tracked (for 303 days) a discrete, relativistically moving jet knot that was launched from the system. From the motion of the apparently superluminal knot, we constrain the jet inclination (at the time of ejection) and speed to <= 45 degrees and >= 0.69 c, respectively. Extrapolating its motion back in time, our results suggest that the jet knot was ejected close in time to the transition from the hard intermediate state to soft intermediate state. The launching event also occurred contemporaneously with a short increase in X-ray count rate, a rapid drop in the strength of the X-ray variability, and a change in the type-C quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) frequency that occurs >2.5 days before the first appearance of a possible type-B QPO.
black hole physics
ISM: jets and outflows
accretion, accretion disks
radio continuum: stars
X-rays: binaries
stars: individual (MAXI J1535-571)
Author
T. D. Russell
University of Amsterdam
A. J. Tetarenko
East Asian Observatory
University of Alberta
J. C. A. Miller-Jones
Curtin University
G. R. Sivakoff
University of Alberta
A. S. Parikh
University of Amsterdam
S. Rapisarda
Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
R. Wijnands
University of Amsterdam
S. Corbel
University Paris-Saclay
University of Orléans
E. Tremou
University Paris-Saclay
D. Altamirano
University of Southampton
M. C. Baglio
New York University Abu Dhabi
Chiara Ceccobello
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics
N. Degenaar
University of Amsterdam
J. van den Eijnden
University of Amsterdam
R. Fender
University of Oxford
I Heywood
Rhodes University
University of Oxford
H. A. Krimm
National Science Foundation
M. Lucchini
University of Amsterdam
S. Markoff
University of Amsterdam
D. M. Russell
New York University Abu Dhabi
R. Soria
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The University of Sydney
P. A. Woudt
University of Cape Town
Astrophysical Journal
0004-637X (ISSN) 1538-4357 (eISSN)
Vol. 883 2 198Subject Categories
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Other Physics Topics
Signal Processing
DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/ab3d36