Bibcode
Soria, Roberto; Ghosh, Kajal; Grise', Fabien; Kuncic, Zdenka; Saxton, Curtis
Bibliographical reference
ATNF proposal C1622, Semester: October, 2006
Advertised on:
10
2006
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Description
We propose to detect and resolve the candidate radio counterpart of an
ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) at the outskirts of NGC 1313. This ULX
is surrounded by a huge ionized nebula. We expect to find a
corresponding synchrotron radio bubble, possibly inflated by a jet from
the black hole, with additional core emission. By combining radio,
optical and X-ray information, we shall determine the energy balance of
the accreting black hole: how much gravitational power is radiated by
disk and corona, how much is advected, how much is carried out by jets
and winds. Resolving radio core and lobe emission will give us both the
instantaneous balance of power and the average energy budget over the
source lifetime. In turn, this will test multi-band spectral models and
allow us to constrain the black hole mass and the physical nature of
this mysterious class of sources.