Correlated Radio-X-Ray Variability of Galactic Black Holes: A Radio-X-Ray Flare in Cygnus X-1
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Wilms, Jörn, Katja Pottschmidt, Guy G. Pooley, Sera Markoff, Michael A. Nowak, Ingo Kreykenbohm, and Richard E. Rothschild. “Correlated Radio-X-Ray Variability of Galactic Black Holes: A Radio-X-Ray Flare in Cygnus X-1.” The Astrophysical Journal 663, no. 2 (June 22, 2007): L97. https://doi.org/10.1086/520508.
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We report on the first detection of a quasi-simultaneous radio-X-ray flare of Cygnus X-1. The detection was made on 2005 April 16 with pointed observations by the RXTE and the Ryle telescope, during a phase where the black hole candidate was close to a transition from its soft state to its hard state. The radio flare lagged the X-rays by ~7 minutes, peaking at 3:20 hr barycentric time (TDB 2,453,476.63864). We discuss this lag in the context of models explaining such flaring events as the ejection of electron bubbles emitting synchrotron radiation.