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Constraining the physical properties of large-scale jets from black hole X-ray binaries and their impact on the local environment with blast-wave dynamical models
- Abstract:
- Relativistic discrete ejecta launched by black hole X-ray binaries (BH XRBs) can be observed to propagate up to parsec-scales from the central object. Observing the final deceleration phase of these jets is crucial to estimate their physical parameters and to reconstruct their full trajectory, with implications for the jet powering mechanism, composition, and formation. In this paper, we present the results of the modelling of the motion of the ejecta from three BH XRBs: MAXI J1820+070, MAXI J1535–571, and XTE J1752–223, for which high-resolution radio and X-ray observations of jets propagating up to ~15 arcsec (~0.6 pc at 3 kpc) from the core have been published in the recent years. For each jet, we modelled its entire motion with a dynamical blast-wave model, inferring robust values for the jet Lorentz factor, inclination angle and ejection time. Under several assumptions associated to the ejection duration, the jet opening angle and the available accretion power, we are able to derive stringent constraints on the maximum jet kinetic energy for each source (between 1043 and 1044 erg, including also H1743–322), as well as placing interesting upper limits on the density of the ISM through which the jets are propagating (from nism≲0.4 cm−3 cm down to nism≲10−4 cm−3). Overall, our results highlight the potential of applying models derived from gamma-ray bursts to the physics of jets from BH XRBs and support the emerging picture of these sources as preferentially embedded in low-density environments.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/mnras/stae2049
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/03wnrjx87
- Grant:
- NIF/R1/211296
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society More from this journal
- Volume:
- 533
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 4188-4209
- Publication date:
- 2024-08-31
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-08-24
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1365-2966
- ISSN:
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0035-8711
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2023957
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pubs:2023957
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2024-08-29
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- Carotenuto et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2024
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- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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