Bibcode
Mezcua, M.; Lobanov, A. P.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.332, Issue 4, p.379
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2011
Citations
27
Refereed citations
20
Description
We present results from our studies of radio emission from selected
Ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) sources, using archival Giant Metrewave Radio
Telescope (GMRT) data and new European VLBI Network (EVN) observations.
The GMRT data are used to find possible faint radio emission from ULX
sources located in late-type galaxies in the Chandra Deep Fields. No
detections are found at 235, 325, and 610 MHz, and upper limits on the
radio flux densities at these frequencies are given. The EVN
observations target milliarcsecond-scale structures in three ULXs with
known radio counterparts (N4449-X1, N4088-X1, and N4861-X2). We confirm
an earlier identification of the ULX N4449-X1 with a supernova remnant
and obtain the most accurate estimates of its size and age. We detect
compact radio emission for the ULX N4088-X1, which could harbour an
intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) of 105 M&sun;
accreting at a sub-Eddington rate. We detect a compact radio component
in the ULX N4861-X2, with a brightness temperature {> 106}
K and an indication for possible extended emission. If the extended
structure is confirmed, this ULX could be an H II region with a diameter
of 8.6 pc and surface brightness temperature {≥ 105} K.
The compact radio emission may be coming from a {˜ 105}
M&sun; black hole accreting at 0.1dot{M}_Edd.