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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 347, Issue 3, Pages L52-L56Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07435.x
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accretion, accretion discs; binaries : general; ISM : jets and outflows; radio continuum : stars; X-rays : stars; X-rays : individual : GX 339-4
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We report on the formation and evolution of a large-scale, synchrotron-emitting jet from the black hole candidate and X-ray binary system GX 339-4. In 2002 May, the source moved from a low/hard to a very high X-ray state, contemporaneously exhibiting a very bright optically thin radio flare. Further observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array have tracked the formation of a collimated structure extending to about 12 arcsec, with apparent velocity greater than 0.9c. The luminosity of the outflow seems to be rapidly decreasing; these observations confirm that transient large-scale jets are likely to be common events triggered by X-ray state transitions in black hole X-ray binaries.
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