Astronomy:V404 Cygni

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Short description: Star and black hole binary star system in the constellation Cygnus
V404 Cygni
V404Cyg XRT halo fullsize.jpg
X-ray light echoes from the 2015 nova eruption
Credit: Andrew Beardmore (Univ. of Leicester) and NASA/Swift
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Cygnus
Right ascension  20h 24m 03.82s[1]
Declination +33° 52′ 02.0″[1]
Apparent magnitude (V) 11.2 - 18.8[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type K3 III[3]
U−B color index +0.3[4]
B−V color index +1.5[4]
Variable type Nova[5]
Astrometry
Proper motion (μ) RA: −5.177[1] mas/yr
Dec.: −7.778[1] mas/yr
Parallax (π)0.3024 ± 0.0783[1] mas
Distance2,390[6] pc
Absolute magnitude (MV)+3.4[7]
Details
A (black hole)
Mass9[6] M☉
B
Mass0.7[7] M☉
Radius6.0[7] R☉
Luminosity10.2[7] L☉
Surface gravity (log g)3.50[8] cgs
Temperature4,800[8] K
Rotational velocity (v sin i)36.4[8] km/s
Other designations
V404 Cyg, Nova Cygni 1938, Nova Cygni 1989, GS 2023+338, AAVSO 2020+33
Database references
SIMBADdata

V404 Cygni is a microquasar and a binary system in the constellation of Cygnus. It contains a black hole with a mass of about 9 M☉ and an early K giant star companion with a mass slightly smaller than the Sun. The star and the black hole orbit each other every 6.47129 days at fairly close range. Due to their proximity and the intense gravity of the black hole, the companion star loses mass to an accretion disk around the black hole and ultimately to the black hole itself.[9]

The "V" in the name indicates that it is a variable star, which repeatedly gets brighter and fainter over time. It is also considered a nova, because at least three times in the 20th century it produced a bright outburst of energy. Finally, it is a soft X-ray transient because it periodically emits short bursts of X-rays.

The black hole companion has been proposed as a Q star candidate.[10]

Observation history

Rare X-ray outburst from a stellar-mass black hole in the binary system V404 Cygni. Video on YouTube

The system was first noted as Nova Cygni 1938 and given the variable star designation V404 Cygni. It was considered to be an ordinary "moderately fast" nova although large fluctuations were noted during the decline. It was discovered after maximum light, and the photographic magnitude range was measured at 12.5–20.5.[11]

On May 22, 1989 the Japanese Ginga Team discovered a new X-ray source that was catalogued as GS 2023+338.[12] This source was quickly linked to V404 Cygni, which was discovered to be in outburst again as Nova Cygni 1989.[13][14]

Follow-up studies showed a previously unnoticed outburst in 1956. There was also a possible brightening in 1979.[15]

In 2009, the black hole in the V404 Cygni system became the first black hole to have an accurate parallax measurement for its distance from the Solar System. Measured by very-long-baseline interferometry using the High Sensitivity Array, the distance is 2.39±0.14 kiloparsecs,[16] or 7800±460 light-years.

In April 2019, astronomers announced that jets of particles shooting from the black hole were wobbling back and forth on the order of a few minutes, something that had never before been seen in the particle jets streaming from a black hole. Astronomers believe that the wobble is caused by the Lense-Thirring effect due to warping of space/time by the huge gravitational field in the vicinity of the black hole.[17]

2015 outburst

A visual band light curve for V404 Cygni. The main plot shows the large variations during the 2015 outburst, and the inset shows the short timescale variations. Adapted from Rodriguez et al. (2015)[18] and Martí et al. (2016)[19]

On 15 June 2015 NASA's Swift satellite detected the first signs of renewed activity. A worldwide observing campaign was commenced and on 17 June ESA's INTEGRAL Gamma-ray observatory started monitoring the outburst. INTEGRAL was detecting "repeated bright flashes of light time scales shorter than an hour, something rarely seen in other black hole systems", and during these flashes V404 Cygni was the brightest object in the X-ray sky—up to fifty times brighter than the Crab Nebula. This outburst was the first since 1989.

Other outbursts occurred in 1938 and 1956, and the outbursts were probably caused by material piling up in a disk around the black hole until a tipping point was reached.[20] The outburst was unusual in that physical processes in the inner accretion disk were detectable in optical photometry from small telescopes; previously, these variations were thought to be only detectable with space-based X-ray telescopes.[9] A detailed analysis of the INTEGRAL data revealed the existence of so-called pair plasma near the black hole. This plasma consists of electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons.[21]

A follow-up study of the 2015 data found a coronal magnetic field strength of 461 ± 12 gauss, "substantially lower than previous estimates for such systems".[22]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Brown, A. G. A. (2021). "Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 649: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039657. Bibcode: 2021A&A...649A...1G.  Gaia EDR3 record for this source at VizieR.
  2. ↑ Watson, C. L. (2006). "The International Variable Star Index (VSX)". The Society for Astronomical Sciences 25th Annual Symposium on Telescope Science. Held May 23–25 25: 47. Bibcode: 2006SASS...25...47W. 
  3. ↑ Khargharia, Juthika; Froning, Cynthia S.; Robinson, Edward L. (2010). "Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Low-mass X-ray Binaries: Accretion Disk Contamination and Compact Object Mass Determination in V404 Cyg and Cen X-4". The Astrophysical Journal 716 (2): 1105. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/716/2/1105. Bibcode: 2010ApJ...716.1105K. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Liu, Q. Z.; Van Paradijs, J.; Van Den Heuvel, E. P. J. (2007). "A catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC (Fourth edition)". Astronomy and Astrophysics 469 (2): 807. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20077303. Bibcode: 2007A&A...469..807L. 
  5. ↑ Samus, N. N. et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally Published in: 2009yCat....102025S 1. Bibcode: 2009yCat....102025S. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Bernardini, F.; Russell, D. M.; Shaw, A. W.; Lewis, F.; Charles, P. A.; Koljonen, K. I. I.; Lasota, J. P.; Casares, J. (2016). "Events leading up to the 2015 June Outburst of V404 Cyg". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 818 (1): L5. doi:10.3847/2041-8205/818/1/L5. Bibcode: 2016ApJ...818L...5B. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Shahbaz, T.; Ringwald, F. A.; Bunn, J. C.; Naylor, T.; Charles, P. A.; Casares, J. (1994). "The mass of the black hole in V404 Cygni". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 271: L10–L14. doi:10.1093/mnras/271.1.L10. Bibcode: 1994MNRAS.271L..10S. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 González Hernández, Jonay I.; Casares, Jorge; Rebolo, Rafael; Israelian, Garik; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Chornock, Ryan (2011). "Chemical Abundances of the Secondary Star in the Black Hole X-Ray Binary V404 Cygni". The Astrophysical Journal 738 (1): 95. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/738/1/95. Bibcode: 2011ApJ...738...95G. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Kimura, Mariko (7 January 2016). "Repetitive patterns in rapid optical variations in the nearby black-hole binary V404 Cygni". Nature 529 (7584): 54–70. doi:10.1038/nature16452. PMID 26738590. Bibcode: 2016Natur.529...54K. 
  10. ↑ Brecher, K. (1993-05-01). "Gray Holes". American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #182 182: 55.07. Bibcode: 1993AAS...182.5507B. 
  11. ↑ Duerbeck, Hilmar W (1987). "A reference catalogue and atlas of galactic novae". Space Science Reviews 45 (1–2): 1. doi:10.1007/BF00187826. Bibcode: 1987SSRv...45....1D. 
  12. ↑ Kitamoto, Shunji; Tsunemi, Hiroshi; Miyamoto, Sigenori; Yamashita, Koujun; Mizobuchi, Seiko; Nakagawa, Michio; Dotani, Tadayasu; Makino, Fumiaki (1989). "GS2023 + 338 - A new class of X-ray transient source?". Nature 342 (6249): 518. doi:10.1038/342518a0. Bibcode: 1989Natur.342..518K. 
  13. ↑ Hurst, G. M (1989). "Nova Cygni 1938 Reappears - V404-CYGNI". Journal of the British Astronomical Society 99: 161. Bibcode: 1989JBAA...99..161H. 
  14. ↑ R. M. Wagner; S. Starrfield; A. Cassatella; R. Gonzalez-Riestra; T. J. Kreidl; S. B. Howell; R. M. Hjellming; X.-H. Han et al. (24 July 2005). "The 1989 outburst of V404 cygni: A very unusual x-ray nova". Physics of Classical Novae. Lecture Notes in Physics. 369. pp. 429–430. doi:10.1007/3-540-53500-4_162. ISBN 978-3-540-53500-3. Bibcode: 1990LNP...369..429W. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1410376/. 
  15. ↑ Richter, Gerold A (1989). "V404 Cyg - a Further Outburst in 1956". Information Bulletin on Variable Stars 3362: 1. Bibcode: 1989IBVS.3362....1R. 
  16. ↑ Miller-Jones, J. A. C.; Jonker; Dhawan (2009). "The first accurate parallax distance to a black hole". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 706 (2): L230. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/706/2/L230. Bibcode: 2009ApJ...706L.230M. 
  17. ↑ "This Black Hole's Jets Wobble Like Crazy Because It's Warping Space-Time". 29 April 2019. https://www.space.com/black-hole-wobbling-jets-warp-spacetime.html. 
  18. ↑ Rodriguez, J.; Cadolle Bel, M.; Alfonso-Garzón, J.; Siegert, T.; Zhang, X. L.; Grinberg, V.; Savchenko, V.; Tomsick, J. A. et al. (September 2015). "Correlated optical, X-ray, and γ-ray flaring activity seen with INTEGRAL during the 2015 outburst of V404 Cygni". Astronomy & Astrophysics 581: L9. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527043. Bibcode: 2015A&A...581L...9R. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A&A...581L...9R. Retrieved 21 December 2021. 
  19. ↑ Martí, Josep; Luque-Escamilla, Pedro L.; García-Hernández, María T. (February 2016). "Multi-colour optical photometry of V404 Cygni in outburst (Research Note)". Astronomy & Astrophysics 586. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527239. Bibcode: 2016A&A...586A..58M. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016A&A...586A..58M. Retrieved 21 December 2021. 
  20. ↑ "Monster Black Hole Wakes Up After 26 Years". ESA. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Integral/Monster_black_hole_wakes_up_after_26_years. 
  21. ↑ "Gamma rays reveal pair plasma from a flaring black hole binary system". Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. 29 February 2016. http://www.mpe.mpg.de/6517171/News_20160229. 
  22. ↑ Yigit Dallilar et al. (8 Dec 2017). "A precise measurement of the magnetic field in the corona of the black hole binary V404 Cygni". Science 358 (6368): 1299–1302. doi:10.1126/science.aan0249. PMID 29217570. Bibcode: 2017Sci...358.1299D. 



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