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Radio monitoring of transient Be/X-ray binaries and the inflow-outflow coupling of strongly-magnetized accreting neutron stars
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dc.contributor.author | van den Eijnden, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Degenaar, N | |
dc.contributor.author | Russell, T D | |
dc.contributor.author | Miller-Jones, J C A | |
dc.contributor.author | Escorial, A Rouco | |
dc.contributor.author | Wijnands, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Sivakoff, G R | |
dc.contributor.author | Santisteban, J V Hernández | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-06T15:30:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-10-06T15:30:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | van den Eijnden , J , Degenaar , N , Russell , T D , Miller-Jones , J C A , Escorial , A R , Wijnands , R , Sivakoff , G R & Santisteban , J V H 2022 , ' Radio monitoring of transient Be/X-ray binaries and the inflow-outflow coupling of strongly-magnetized accreting neutron stars ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 516 , no. 4 , 516 , pp. 4844–4861 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2518 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-8711 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 281525362 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 079730cc-3772-496e-899d-975ee0e3149f | |
dc.identifier.other | Jisc: 608308 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-6733-5556/work/120052336 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000857956100009 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85159078470 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/26151 | |
dc.description | Funding information: JvdE is supported by a Lee Hysan Junior Research Fellowship awarded by St. Hilda’s College. TDR acknowledges financial contribution from the agreement ASI-INAF n.2017-14-H.0. GRS is supported by NSERC Discovery Grants RGPIN-2016-06569 and RGPIN-2021-04001. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Strongly-magnetized (B ≥ 1012 G) accreting neutron stars (NSs) are prime targets for studying the launching of jets by objects with a solid surface; while classical jet-launching models predict that such NSs cannot launch jets, recent observations and models argue otherwise. Transient Be/X-ray binaries (BeXRBs) are critical laboratories for probing this poorly-explored parameter space for jet formation. Here, we present the coordinated monitoring campaigns of three BeXRBs across four outbursts: giant outbursts of SAX 2103.5+4545, 1A 0535+262, and GRO J1008-57, as well as a Type-I outburst of the latter. We obtain radio detections of 1A 0535+262 during ten out of twenty observations, while the other targets remained undetected at typical limits of 20–50μJy. The radio luminosity of 1A 0535+262 positively correlates with its evolving X-ray luminosity, and inhabits a region of the LX–LR plane continuing the correlation observed previously for the BeXRB Swift J0243.6+6124. We measure a BeXRB LX–LR coupling index of β = 0.86 ± 0.06 (LX ∝ LßR ), similar to the indices measured in NS and black hole low-mass X-ray binaries. Strikingly, the coupling’s LR normalization is ∼275 and ∼6.2 × 103 times lower than in those two comparison samples, respectively. We conclude that jet emission likely dominates during the main peak of giant outbursts, but is only detectable for close-by or super-Eddington systems at current radio sensitivities. We discuss these results in the broader context of X-ray binary radio studies, concluding that our results suggest how supergiant X-ray binaries may host a currently unidentified additional radio emission mechanism. | |
dc.format.extent | 18 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. 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. | en |
dc.subject | Accretion, accretion discs | en |
dc.subject | Dtars: neutron | en |
dc.subject | X-rays: binaries | en |
dc.subject | QB Astronomy | en |
dc.subject | QC Physics | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QB | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QC | en |
dc.title | Radio monitoring of transient Be/X-ray binaries and the inflow-outflow coupling of strongly-magnetized accreting neutron stars | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2518 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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