INFRARED SYNCHROTRON OSCILLATIONS IN GRS 1915+105

Citation
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
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
ISSN journal
00358711
Volume
300
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
573 - 576
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8711(1998)300:2<573:ISOIG1>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
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.