A Unified Model for Black Hole X-Ray Binary Jets?

By Robert P. Fender, T. Belloni, E. Gallo. 2004

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We have recently put forward a ‘unified’ semi-empirical model for the coupling between accretion and jet production in galactic black hole X-ray binaries. In this paper, we summarise this model and briefly discuss relevant considerations that have arisen since its publication.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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The evolution of the timing properties of the black-hole transient GX 339-4 during its 2002/2003 outburst (2005, positive): “Interestingly, the transition into this state appears to be associated with the ejection of relativistic jets (Gallo et al. 2004; Fender et al. 2004), which again makes it an important state to study.”
Science with the Murchison Widefield Array (2012, background): “The most common type of jet in microquasars is the quasi-steady jets associated with the X-ray hard state (Fender et al. 2004; McClintock & Remillard 2006) that can persist for months in some sources.”
The black hole accretion code (2016, background): “Some supermassive BHs, including the primary targets of observations by the Event-Horizon-Telescope Collaboration (EHTC([1])), i.”
Stability of relativistic jets from rotating, accreting black holes via fully three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations (2008, background): “Jets have now also been observed in many other AGN/blazars (Bridle & Perley 1984), in neutron star and BH x-ray binaries (Mirabel & Rodrı́guez 1999; Fender et al. 2004), in Herbig-Haro objects (e.g. Konigl 1982), and are required for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) (e.g. Piran 2005).”
Black Hole Spin via Continuum Fitting and the Role of Spin in Powering Transient Jets (2013, methodology): “Nevertheless, Fender et al. (2004) have performed such a study and have claimed that there is no evidence in the data that the power of a steady jet depends on spin.”
Global optical/infrared-X-ray correlations in X-ray binaries: quantifying disc and jet contributions (2006, background): “The unification of jet–X-ray state activity is now underway; a steady jet exists in the hard state, which is accelerated as the X-ray spectrum softens, and is finally quenched as it passes the ‘jet line’ into the soft state (Fender et al. 2004).”
Simulations of ultrarelativistic magnetodynamic jets from gamma‐ray burst engines (2008, background): “Indeed, observations indicate that these systems are invariably radio-loud, whereas higher luminosity AGN and BHBs in the ‘thermal state’, which are powered by thin accretion discs, are often radio-quiet.”
A synthesis model for AGN evolution: supermassive black holes growth and feedback modes (2008, background): “…idea, that is easy to incorporate into any population synthesis scheme, bears resemblance with what actually observed for transients black hole X-ray binaries, which often displays verypowerful and rapid radio flares at the peak of their outbursts (see Fender et al. 2004, and references therein).”
Jets in neutron star X-ray binaries: a comparison with black holes (2005, methodology): “In Table 1 we report the distance from Negeruela & Reig (2001), the radio flux density in Blay et al. (2005) and the 2-10 keV X-ray flux from the RXTE/ASM simultaneous daily-averaged count rate.”
Gamma-ray binaries : pulsars in disguise? (2006, background): “These apparently superluminal ejection events have been tentatively associated with transitions from a hard to a soft X-ray spectrum (Fender et al. 2004).”
WATCHDOG: A COMPREHENSIVE ALL-SKY DATABASE OF GALACTIC BLACK HOLE X-RAY BINARIES (2015, background): “…slightly inverted radio spectrum, thought to be the result of the presence of a compact, steady jet (Hjellming & Wade 1971a; Tananbaum et al. 1972; Fender et al. 2004; Fender 2010; Russell et al. 2012), involves low mass transfer rates, and is typically associated with lower Eddington-scaled…”
Radio Loudness of Active Galactic Nuclei: Observational Facts and Theoretical Implications (2006, background): “Themonotonic dependenceof radio luminosities on theEddington ratio in XRBs breaks down at k 0:01, and observations clearly indicate the intermittency of the jet production at higher luminosities and its connection with a spectral state (Fender et al. 2004).”
The Evolution of Black Hole States (2004, background): “No radio emission is observed (i.e. only upper limits on the emission from the compact source), indicating that the production of a jet is terminated at the transition to soft intermediate state (Fender et al., 2004) and maybe even before.”