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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 448, 期 2, 页码 1893-1899出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv143
关键词
accretion, accretion discs; black hole physics; ISM: jets and outflows; X-rays: binaries; radio continuum: general
资金
- STFC [ST/K000861/1, ST/L00075X/1]
- Chandra X-ray Center [NGC 2276]
- national research councils
- [PNAYA2011-25527]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L00075X/1, ST/K000861/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/L00075X/1, ST/K000861/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Jet ejection by accreting black holes is a mass invariant mechanism unifying stellar and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) that should also apply for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), which are thought to be the seeds from which SMBHs form. We present the detection of an off-nuclear IMBH of similar to 5 x 10(4) M-circle dot located in an unusual spiral arm of the galaxy NGC 2276 based on quasi-simultaneous Chandra X-ray observations and European VLBI Network (EVN) radio observations. The IMBH, NGC2276-3c, possesses a 1.8 pc radio jet that is oriented in the same direction as large-scale (similar to 650 pc) radio lobes and whose emission is consistent with flat to optically thin synchrotron emission between 1.6 and 5 GHz. Its jet kinetic power (4 x 10(40) erg s(-1)) is comparable to its radiative output and its jet efficiency (>= 46 per cent) is as large as that of SMBHs. A region of similar to 300 pc along the jet devoid of young stars could provide observational evidence of jet feedback from an IMBH. The discovery confirms that the accretion physics is mass invariant and that seed IMBHs in the early Universe possibly had powerful jets that were an important source of feedback.
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