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Extending the 'energetic scaling of relativistic jets from black hole systems' to include gamma-ray-loud X-ray binaries

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posted on 2019-07-24, 14:47 authored by Gavin P. Lamb, Shiho Kobayashi, Elena Pian
We show that the jet power Pj and geometrically corrected γ -ray luminosity Lγ for the X-ray binaries (XRBs) Cygnus X-1, Cygnus X-3, and V404 Cygni, and γ -ray upper limits for GRS 1915+105 and GX339-4, follow the universal scaling for the energetics of relativistic jets from black hole (BH) systems found by Nemmen et al. for blazars and GRBs. The observed peak γ -ray luminosity for XRBs is geometrically corrected, and the minimum jet power is estimated from the peak flux density of radio flares and the flare rise time. The Lγ –Pj correlation holds across ∼17 orders of magnitude. The correlation suggests a jet origin for the high-energy emission from XRBs, and indicates a common mechanism or efficiency for the high-energy emission 0.1–100 GeV from all relativistic BH systems.

Funding

This research was supported by STFC grants. EP acknowledges financial support from INAF-ASI contract I/088/06/0 from the Italian Ministry of Education and Research, and from Scuola Normale Superiore.

History

Citation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2017, 472 (1), pp. 475-482 (8)

Author affiliation

/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Physics and Astronomy

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Published in

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP), Royal Astronomical Society

issn

0035-8711

eissn

1365-2966

Acceptance date

2017-07-26

Copyright date

2017

Available date

2019-07-24

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https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/472/1/475/4055624

Language

en