Peculiar radio-bright behaviour of the Galactic black hole transient 4U 1543-47 in the 2021-2023 outburst

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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, X., Yu, W., Carotenuto, F., Motta, S. E., Fender, R., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Russell, T. D., Bahramian, A., Woudt, P., Hughes, A. K., Sivakoff, G. R.
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author Zhang, X.
Yu, W.
Carotenuto, F.
Motta, S. E.
Fender, R.
Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
Russell, T. D.
Bahramian, A.
Woudt, P.
Hughes, A. K.
Sivakoff, G. R.
author_facet Zhang, X.
Yu, W.
Carotenuto, F.
Motta, S. E.
Fender, R.
Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
Russell, T. D.
Bahramian, A.
Woudt, P.
Hughes, A. K.
Sivakoff, G. R.
contents Correlated behaviours between the radio emission and the X-ray emission in Galactic black hole X-ray binaries (BH XRBs) in the X-ray hard state are crucial to the understanding of disc-jet coupling of accreting black holes. The BH transient 4U 1543-47 went into outburst in 2021 following ~19 years of quiescence. We followed it up with ~weekly cadence with MeerKAT for about one year and a half until it faded into quiescence. Multi-epoch quasi-simultaneous MeerKAT and X-ray observations allowed us to trace the compact jet emission and its X-ray emission. In its hard spectral state across three orders of magnitude of X-ray luminosities above ~10$^{34}$ ergs/s, we found the correlation between radio and X-ray emission had a power-law index of 0.82$\pm$0.09, steeper than the canonical value of ~0.6 for BH XRBs. In addition, the radio vs. X-ray correlation shows a large range of the power-law normalization, with the maximum significantly larger than that obtained for most BH XRBs, indicating it can be particularly radio-bright and variable in the X-ray binary sample. The radio emission is unlikely diluted by discrete jet components. The observed peculiar radio-bright and variable behaviours provide the evidence for the relativistic effects of a variable Lorentz factor in the range between 1 and ~2 of the compact jet.
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spellingShingle Peculiar radio-bright behaviour of the Galactic black hole transient 4U 1543-47 in the 2021-2023 outburst
Zhang, X.
Yu, W.
Carotenuto, F.
Motta, S. E.
Fender, R.
Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
Russell, T. D.
Bahramian, A.
Woudt, P.
Hughes, A. K.
Sivakoff, G. R.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Correlated behaviours between the radio emission and the X-ray emission in Galactic black hole X-ray binaries (BH XRBs) in the X-ray hard state are crucial to the understanding of disc-jet coupling of accreting black holes. The BH transient 4U 1543-47 went into outburst in 2021 following ~19 years of quiescence. We followed it up with ~weekly cadence with MeerKAT for about one year and a half until it faded into quiescence. Multi-epoch quasi-simultaneous MeerKAT and X-ray observations allowed us to trace the compact jet emission and its X-ray emission. In its hard spectral state across three orders of magnitude of X-ray luminosities above ~10$^{34}$ ergs/s, we found the correlation between radio and X-ray emission had a power-law index of 0.82$\pm$0.09, steeper than the canonical value of ~0.6 for BH XRBs. In addition, the radio vs. X-ray correlation shows a large range of the power-law normalization, with the maximum significantly larger than that obtained for most BH XRBs, indicating it can be particularly radio-bright and variable in the X-ray binary sample. The radio emission is unlikely diluted by discrete jet components. The observed peculiar radio-bright and variable behaviours provide the evidence for the relativistic effects of a variable Lorentz factor in the range between 1 and ~2 of the compact jet.
title Peculiar radio-bright behaviour of the Galactic black hole transient 4U 1543-47 in the 2021-2023 outburst
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04917