X-Rays from V723 Mon are due to Optical Loading in Swift XRT
| dc.contributor.author | Hare, Jeremy | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kargaltsev, Oleg | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cenko, S. Bradley | |
| dc.contributor.author | Klingler, Noel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-09T18:00:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-09T18:00:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-11 | |
| dc.description.abstract | V723 Mon was recently reported to be hosting the nearest (d = 460 pc) candidate black hole by Jayasinghe et al. An X-ray detection was claimed based on deep Swift XRT observations with a luminosity of Lₓ ≈ 8 × 10²⁹ erg s⁻¹ or Lₓ/LEdd ≈ 10⁻⁹. Here we show that the X-ray photons detected by Swift XRT are due to optical loading from the bright (V = 8.3 mag) star. Using events in the 2–10 keV energy band, where optical loading does not strongly contribute, we find a 3σ upper-limit on the unabsorbed 2–10 keV X-ray flux of Fₓ < 2.8 × 10⁻¹⁴ erg cm⁻² s⁻¹, corresponding to a luminosity Lₓ < 7.2 × 10²⁹ erg s⁻¹ at a distance of 460 pc or Lₓ/LEdd ≲ 2 × 10⁻⁹ for a M ≈ 3M⊙ black hole. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work made use of data supplied by the UK Swift Science Data Centre at the University of Leicester. J.H. acknowledges support from an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by the USRA through a contract with NASA. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac35e5 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 5 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m26biq-kkkq | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hare, Jeremy et al.; X-Rays from V723 Mon are due to Optical Loading in Swift XRT; Research Notes of the AAS, Volume 5, Number 11, November, 2021; https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac35e5 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac35e5 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/23563 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department | |
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| dc.title | X-Rays from V723 Mon are due to Optical Loading in Swift XRT | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7465-0941 | en_US |