由广义相对论百年耀发确定的OJ287主黑洞自旋
高能天体物理现象
2016-03-23 v1
摘要
OJ287是一个具有约12年光学周期的准周期类星体。它表现出在双星黑洞模型中可预测的显著爆发。该模型预测2015年12月有一次主要光学爆发。我们发现该爆发确实发生在预期时间范围内,于2015年12月5日在光学R波段达到12.9星等的峰值。基于Swift/XRT卫星测量和光学偏振数据,我们发现它包含一个主要热成分。其时序为原黑洞的自旋提供了准确估计,chi = 0.313 ± 0.01。本次爆发还证实了该系统已建立的广义相对论性质,例如轨道能量以2%精度损失于引力辐射,并且为在本十年内以10%精度检验黑洞无毛发定理开辟了可能性。
引用
@article{arxiv.1603.04171,
title = {Primary black hole spin in OJ287 as determined by the General Relativity centenary flare},
author = {M. J. Valtonen and S. Zola and S. Ciprini and A. Gopakumar and K. Matsumoto and K. Sadakane and M. Kidger and K. Gazeas and K. Nilsson and A. Berdyugin and V. Piirola and H. Jermak and K. S. Baliyan and F. Alicavus and D. Boyd and M. Campas Torrent and F. Campos and J. Carrillo Gomez and D. B. Caton and V. Chavushyan and J. Dalessio and B. Debski and D. Dimitrov and M. Drozdz and H. Er and A. Erdem and A. Escartin Perez and V. Fallah Ramazani and A. V. Filippenko and S. Ganesh and F. Garcia and F. Gomez Pinilla and M. Gopinathan and J. B. Haislip and R. Hudec and G. Hurst and K. M. Ivarsen and M. Jelinek and A. Joshi and M. Kagitani and N. Kaur and W. C. Keel and A. P. LaCluyze and B. C. Lee and E. Lindfors and J. Lozano de Haro and J. P. Moore and M. Mugrauer and R. Naves Nogues and A. W. Neely and R. H. Nelson and W. Ogloza and S. Okano and J. C. Pandey and M. Perri and P. Pihajoki and G. Poyner and J. Provencal and T. Pursimo and A. Raj and D. E. Reichart and R. Reinthal and S. Sadegi and T. Sakanoi and J. L. Salto Gonzalez and T. Schweyer and M. Siwak and F. C. Soldan Alfaro and E. Sonbas and I. Steele and J. T. Stocke and J. Strobl and L. O. Takalo and T. Tomov and L. Tremosa Espasa and J. R. Valdes and J. Valero Perez and F. Verrecchia and J. R. Webb and M. Yoneda and M. Zejmo and W. Zheng and J. Telting and J. Saario and T. Reynolds and A. Kvammen and E. Gafton and R. Karjalainen and J. Harmanen and P. Blay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.04171},
year = {2016}
}