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    The absence of radio emission from the globular cluster G1

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    Authors
    Miller-Jones, James
    Wrobel, J.
    Sivakoff, G.
    Heinke, C.
    Miller, R.
    Plotkin, R.
    Di Stefano, R.
    Greene, J.
    Ho, L.
    Joseph, T.
    Kong, A.
    Maccarone, T.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Miller-Jones, J. and Wrobel, J. and Sivakoff, G. and Heinke, C. and Miller, R. and Plotkin, R. and Di Stefano, R. et al. 2012. The absence of radio emission from the globular cluster G1. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 755 (1)
    Source Title
    The Astrophysical Journal Letters
    DOI
    10.1088/2041-8205/755/1/L1
    ISSN
    2041-8205
    School
    Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (Physics)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20357
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    The detections of both X-ray and radio emission from the cluster G1 in M31 have provided strong support for existing dynamical evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) of mass (1.8 ± 0.5) × 10^4 M ? at the cluster center. However, given the relatively low significance and astrometric accuracy of the radio detection, and the non-simultaneity of the X-ray and radio measurements, this identification required further confirmation. Here we present deep, high angular resolution, strictly simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of G1. While the X-ray emission (L X = 1.74^(+0.53)_( –0.44) × 10^36 (d/750 kpc)2 erg/s in the 0.5-10 keV band) remained fully consistent with previous observations, we detected no radio emission from the cluster center down to a 3s upper limit of 4.7 µJy/beam. Our favored explanation for the previous radio detection is flaring activity from a black hole low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB). We performed a new regression of the "Fundamental Plane" of black hole activity, valid for determining black hole mass from radio and X-ray observations of sub-Eddington black holes, finding log M BH = (1.638 ± 0.070)log L R – (1.136 ± 0.077)log L X – (6.863 ± 0.790), with an empirically determined uncertainty of 0.44 dex. This constrains the mass of the X-ray source in G1, if a black hole, to be <9.7 × 10^3 M ? at 95% confidence, suggesting that it is a persistent LMXB. This annuls what was previously the most convincing evidence from radiation for an IMBH in the Local Group, though the evidence for an IMBH in G1 from velocity dispersion measurements remains unaffected by these results.

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