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Title: | Repetitive patterns in rapid optical variations in the nearby black-hole binary V404 Cygni |
Authors: | Kimura, Mariko Isogai, Keisuke Kato, Taichi ![]() ![]() Ueda, Yoshihiro Nakahira, Satoshi Shidatsu, Megumi Enoto, Teruaki ![]() ![]() ![]() Hori, Takafumi Nogami, Daisaku ![]() ![]() ![]() Littlefield, Colin Ishioka, Ryoko Chen, Ying-Tung King, Sun-Kun Wen, Chih-Yi Wang, Shiang-Yu Lehner, Matthew J. Schwamb, Megan E. Wang, Jen-Hung Zhang, Zhi-Wei Alcock, Charles Axelrod, Tim Bianco, Federica B. Byun, Yong-Ik Chen, Wen-Ping Cook, Kem H. Kim, Dae-Won Lee, Typhoon Marshall, Stuart L. Pavlenko, Elena P. Antonyuk, Oksana I. Antonyuk, Kirill A. Pit, Nikolai V. Sosnovskij, Aleksei A. Babina, Julia V. Baklanov, Aleksei V. Pozanenko, Alexei S. Mazaeva, Elena D. Schmalz, Sergei E. Reva, Inna V. Belan, Sergei P. Inasaridze, Raguli Ya. Tungalag, Namkhai Volnova, Alina A. Molotov, Igor E. Miguel, Enrique de Kasai, Kiyoshi Stein, William L. Dubovsky, Pavol A. Kiyota, Seiichiro Miller, Ian Richmond, Michael Goff, William Andreev, Maksim V. Takahashi, Hiromitsu Kojiguchi, Naoto Sugiura, Yuki Takeda, Nao Yamada, Eiji Matsumoto, Katsura James, Nick Pickard, Roger D. Tordai, Tamás Maeda, Yutaka Ruiz, Javier Miyashita, Atsushi Cook, Lewis M. Imada, Akira Uemura, Makoto |
Author's alias: | 木邑, 真理子 磯貝, 桂介 上田, 佳宏 加藤, 太一 野上, 大作 |
Keywords: | High-energy astrophysics Stars |
Issue Date: | 6-Jan-2016 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
Journal title: | Nature |
Volume: | 529 |
Issue: | 7584 |
Start page: | 54 |
End page: | 58 |
Abstract: | How black holes accrete surrounding matter is a fundamental yet unsolved question in astrophysics. It is generally believed that matter is absorbed into black holes via accretion disks, the state of which depends primarily on the mass-accretion rate. When this rate approaches the critical rate (the Eddington limit), thermal instability is supposed to occur in the inner disk, causing repetitive patterns of large-amplitude X-ray variability (oscillations) on timescales of minutes to hours. In fact, such oscillations have been observed only in sources with a high mass-accretion rate, such as GRS 1915+105 (refs 2, 3). These large-amplitude, relatively slow timescale, phenomena are thought to have physical origins distinct from those of X-ray or optical variations with small amplitudes and fast timescales (less than about 10 seconds) often observed in other black-hole binaries--for example, XTE J1118+480 (ref. 4) and GX 339−4 (ref. 5). Here we report an extensive multi-colour optical photometric data set of V404 Cygni, an X-ray transient source containing a black hole of nine solar masses (and a companion star) at a distance of 2.4 kiloparsecs (ref. 8). Our data show that optical oscillations on timescales of 100 seconds to 2.5 hours can occur at mass-accretion rates more than ten times lower than previously thought. This suggests that the accretion rate is not the critical parameter for inducing inner-disk instabilities. Instead, we propose that a long orbital period is a key condition for these large-amplitude oscillations, because the outer part of the large disk in binaries with long orbital periods will have surface densities too low to maintain sustained mass accretion to the inner part of the disk. The lack of sustained accretion--not the actual rate--would then be the critical factor causing large-amplitude oscillations in long-period systems. |
Description: | ブラックホール近傍から出る規則的なパターンを持つ光の変動を可視光で初めて捉えることに成功 -ブラックホールの「またたき」を直接目で観測できる機会に期待-. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2016-01-07. |
Rights: | This is the accepted manuscript of the article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature16452. The full-text file will be made open to the public on 7 July 2016 in accordance with publisher's 'Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving'. This is not the published version. Please cite only the published version. この論文は出版社版でありません。引用の際には出版社版をご確認ご利用ください。 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2433/203010 |
DOI(Published Version): | 10.1038/nature16452 |
PubMed ID: | 26738590 |
Related Link: | https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/research-news/2016-01-07 |
Appears in Collections: | Journal Articles |

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