Quenched millimetre emission from Cygnus X-1 in a soft X-ray state

Authors
  • G.G. Pooley
Publication date 2004
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume | Issue number 352
Pages (from-to) 1015-1018
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract We present millimetre wavelength observations of the black hole candidate X-ray binary Cygnus X-1 that indicate a suppression, or quenching, of the emission as the source switches to a softer X-ray state. Combining the data with those for another black hole candidate, XTE J1118+480, we demonstrate that the millimetre emission shows the same coupling to X-rays as the radio emission, although with a much stronger sensitivity to spectral shape. We therefore confirm the association of the millimetre emission with the jets in low-hard state black hole candidate X-ray binaries.
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