Bibcode
Russell, D. M.; Fender, R. P.
Referencia bibliográfica
"Proceedings of "Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: wide-field monitoring of the dynamic radio sky". 12-15 June 2007, Kerastari, Tripolis, Greece., p.12"
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2007
Número de citas
2
Número de citas referidas
2
Descripción
X-ray binaries undergo outbursts due to increased mass accretion rate in
the disc towards the compact object, a black hole or neutron star.
Recently, a picture has developed where the behaviour between the radio,
optical/infrared and X-ray luminosities during these outbursts are
correlated. Here, I review this picture and show how simple
optical/infrared monitoring can predict radio flux densities. Using
these predictions it will be possible to prepare radio telescopes
accordingly, eventually improving radio sampling of X-ray transients. In
particular, it is possible to infer when the bright, optically thin jet
flares are likely to occur in black hole transients. We find that the
hard-to-soft X-ray state changes, which also can be identified by
optical/infrared colour changes, lead the bright optically thin radio
outbursts by ˜ 10 days.