Radio flaring and dual radio loud/quiet behaviour in the new candidate black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1631-472 [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01569


We present the results of a weekly monitoring of the new black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1631-472 carried out with the MeerKAT radio interferometer, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) instrument, during its 2018-2019 outburst. The source exhibits a number of X-ray states, in particular both high- and low-luminosity hard states bracketed by extended soft states. Radio flaring is observed shortly after a transition from hard/intermediate states to the soft state. This is broadly in agreement with existing empirical models, but its extended duration hints at multiple unresolved flares and/or jet-ISM interactions. In the hard state radio:X-ray plane, the source is revealed to be ‘radio quiet’ at high luminosities, but to rejoin the `standard’ track at lower luminosities, an increasingly commonly-observed pattern of behaviour.

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I. Monageng, S. Motta, R. Fender, et. al.
Wed, 6 Jan 21
74/82

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS