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2017ApJ...837..153A - Astrophys. J., 837, 153-153 (2017/March-2)

Radio observations of the tidal disruption event XMMSL1 J0740-85.

ALEXANDER K.D., WIERINGA M.H., BERGER E., SAXTON R.D. and KOMOSSA S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present radio observations of the tidal disruption event candidate (TDE) XMMSL1 J0740-85 spanning 592 to 875 days post X-ray discovery. We detect radio emission that fades from an initial peak flux density at 1.6 GHz of 1.19 ± 0.06 mJy to 0.65 ± 0.06 mJy, suggesting an association with the TDE. This makes XMMSL1 J0740-85 at d = 75 Mpc the nearest TDE with detected radio emission to date and only the fifth TDE with radio emission overall. The observed radio luminosity rules out a powerful relativistic jet like that seen in the relativistic TDE Swift J1644+57. Instead, we infer from an equipartition analysis that the radio emission most likely arises from a non-relativistic outflow similar to that seen in the nearby TDE ASASSN-14li, with a velocity of about 104 km s–1 and a kinetic energy of about 1048 erg, expanding into a medium with a density of about 102 cm–3. Alternatively, the radio emission could arise from a weak initially relativistic but decelerated jet with an energy of ∼2×1050 erg, or (for an extreme disruption geometry) from the unbound debris. The radio data for XMMSL1 J0740-85 continues to support the previous suggestion of a bimodal distribution of common non-relativistic isotropic outflows and rare relativistic jets in TDEs (in analogy with the relation between Type Ib/c supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts). The radio data also provide a new measurement of the circumnuclear density on a sub-parsec scale around an extragalactic supermassive black hole.

Abstract Copyright: © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): accretion, accretion disks - black hole physics - galaxies: nuclei - radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - radio continuum: galaxies - relativistic processes - relativistic processes

Simbad objects: 10

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