M. Siwek
Optical and X-ray luminosity of expanding nebulae around ultraluminous X-ray sources
Siwek, M.; Sadowski, A.; Narayan, R.; Roberts, T.P.; Soria, R.
Abstract
We have performed a set of simulations of expanding, spherically symmetric nebulae inflated by winds from accreting black holes in ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). We implemented a realistic cooling function to account for free-free and bound-free cooling. For all model parameters we considered, the forward shock in the interstellar medium becomes radiative at a radius ∼ 100 pc. The emission is primarily in the optical and UV, and the radiative luminosity is about 50% of the total kinetic luminosity of the wind. In contrast, the reverse shock in the wind is adiabatic so long as the terminal outflow velocity of the wind vw & 0.003c. The shocked wind in these models radiates in X-rays, but with a luminosity of only ∼ 1035 erg s−1 . For wind velocities vw . 0.001c, the shocked wind becomes radiative, but it is no longer hot enough to produce Xrays. Instead it emits in optical and UV, and the radiative luminosity is comparable to 100% of the wind kinetic luminosity. We suggest that measuring the optical luminosities and putting limits on the X-ray and radio emission from shock-ionized ULX bubbles may help in estimating the mass outflow rate of the central accretion disk and the velocity of the outflow.
Citation
Siwek, M., Sadowski, A., Narayan, R., Roberts, T., & Soria, R. (2017). Optical and X-ray luminosity of expanding nebulae around ultraluminous X-ray sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(1), 361-371. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1185
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 11, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | May 17, 2017 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2017 |
Deposit Date | May 15, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | May 17, 2017 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 470 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 361-371 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1185 |
Related Public URLs | https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.04235.pdf |
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