Rp. Fender et Gg. Pooley, INFRARED SYNCHROTRON OSCILLATIONS IN GRS 1915+105, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 300(2), 1998, pp. 573-576
We report simultaneous observations of the black hole candidate X-ray
transient GRS 1915+105 in the infrared (IR) at K and in the radio at 2
cm. Oscillations of period 26 min were observed in both wavebands, ha
ving (dereddened) peak-peak amplitudes of about 40 mJy and with the IR
leading the radio by 7 min, or perhaps by 33 or 59 min. A synchrotron
origin for the oscillations continues to seem very likely. We conside
r a range of problems raised by these observations, and briefly discus
s the applicability of expanding-synchrotron source or conical jet mod
els to the oscillations. Comparing simplistic estimates of the ejecta
mass to the missing inner disc mass in the model of Belloni et al., we
find that a significant fraction of the inner disc may be ejected dur
ing the oscillations.