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Title:
X-ray and Radio Variability of M31*, The Andromeda Galaxy Nuclear Supermassive Black Hole
Authors:
Garcia, Michael R.; Hextall, Richard; Baganoff, Frederick K.; Galache, Jose; Melia, Fulvio; Murray, Stephen S.; Primini, F. A.; Sjouwerman, Loránt O.; Williams, Ben
Affiliation:
AA(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ), AB(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ; Department of Physics, University of Southampton, UK ), AC(Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ), AD(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ), AE(Physics Department, The Applied Math Program, and Steward Observatory, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA ), AF(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ), AG(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA ), AH(National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, NM 87801, USA ), AI(Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 710, Issue 1, pp. 755-763 (2010). (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
02/2010
Origin:
IOP
ApJ Keywords:
accretion, accretion disks, black hole physics, galaxies: individual: M31, galaxies: nuclei
DOI:
10.1088/0004-637X/710/1/755
Bibliographic Code:
2010ApJ...710..755G

Abstract

We confirm our earlier tentative detection of M31* in X-rays and measure its light curve and spectrum. Observations in 2004-2005 find M31* rather quiescent in the X-ray and radio. However, X-ray observations in 2006-2007 show M31* to be highly variable at times. A separate variable X-ray source is found near P1, the brighter of the two optical nuclei. The apparent angular Bondi radius of M31* is the largest of any black hole and large enough to be well resolved with Chandra. The diffuse emission within this Bondi radius is found to have an X-ray temperature ~0.3 keV and density 0.1 cm–3, indistinguishable from the hot gas in the surrounding regions of the bulge given the statistics allowed by the current observations. The X-ray source at the location of M31* is consistent with a point source and a power-law spectrum with energy slope 0.9 ± 0.2. Our identification of this X-ray source with M31* is based solely on positional coincidence.
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