TY - JOUR
T1 - Radio transients from newborn black holes
AU - Kashiyama, Kazumi
AU - Hotokezaka, Kenta
AU - Murase, Kohta
N1 - Funding Information:
KK thanks Andrei Beloborodov for valuable discussions. KK also thanks Eliot Quataert and Rodrigo Fernandez for stimulating discussions. This work is supported by KAKENHI 17K14248 (KK), Flatiron Fellowship at the Simons Foundation and Lyman Spitzer Jr. Fellowship (KH), and by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and NSF Grant No. PHY-1620777 (KM).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - We consider radio emission from a newborn black hole (BH), which is accompanied by a mini-disc with a mass of ≲M⊙. Such a disc can be formed from an outer edge of the progenitor's envelope, especially for metal-poor massive stars and/or massive stars in close binaries. The disc accretion rate is typically super-Eddington and an ultrafast outflow with a velocity of ~0.1-0.3c will be launched into the circumstellar medium. The outflow forms a collisionless shock, and electrons are accelerated and emit synchrotron emission in radio bands with a flux of ~1026-30 erg s-1 Hz-1 days to decades after the BH formation. The model predicts not only a fast UV/optical transient but also quasi-simultaneous inverse-Compton X-ray emission approximately a few days after the BH formation, and the discovery of the radio counterpart with coordinated searches will enable us to identify this type of transients. The occurrence rate can be 0.1-10 per cent of the core-collapse supernova rate, which makes them a promising target of dedicated radio observations such as the Jansky VLA Sky Survey.
AB - We consider radio emission from a newborn black hole (BH), which is accompanied by a mini-disc with a mass of ≲M⊙. Such a disc can be formed from an outer edge of the progenitor's envelope, especially for metal-poor massive stars and/or massive stars in close binaries. The disc accretion rate is typically super-Eddington and an ultrafast outflow with a velocity of ~0.1-0.3c will be launched into the circumstellar medium. The outflow forms a collisionless shock, and electrons are accelerated and emit synchrotron emission in radio bands with a flux of ~1026-30 erg s-1 Hz-1 days to decades after the BH formation. The model predicts not only a fast UV/optical transient but also quasi-simultaneous inverse-Compton X-ray emission approximately a few days after the BH formation, and the discovery of the radio counterpart with coordinated searches will enable us to identify this type of transients. The occurrence rate can be 0.1-10 per cent of the core-collapse supernova rate, which makes them a promising target of dedicated radio observations such as the Jansky VLA Sky Survey.
KW - Radio continuum: general
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U2 - 10.1093/MNRAS/STY1145
DO - 10.1093/MNRAS/STY1145
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85052137615
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 478
SP - 2281
EP - 2290
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -