Journal article
Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.406(2), pp.1049-1054
08/01/2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16726.x
Abstract
We present the results of deep radio observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) of the globular cluster NGC 6388. We show that there is no radio source detected (with an rms noise level of 27 μJy) at the cluster centre of gravity or at the locations of any of the Chandra X-ray sources in the cluster. Based on the fundamental plane of accreting black holes which is a relationship between X-ray luminosity, radio luminosity and black hole mass, we place an upper limit of ∼1500 M on the mass of the putative intermediate-mass black hole located at the centre of NGC 6388. We discuss the uncertainties of this upper limit and the previously suggested black hole mass of based on surface density profile analysis.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Radio observations of NGC 6388: an upper limit on the mass of its central black hole
- Creators
- D Cseh - Université Paris DiderotP Kaaret - University of IowaS Corbel - Université Paris DiderotE Körding - Université Paris DiderotM Coriat - Université Paris DiderotA Tzioumis - Australia Telescope National FacilityB Lanzoni - University of Bologna
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.406(2), pp.1049-1054
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16726.x
- ISSN
- 0035-8711
- eISSN
- 1365-2966
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2010
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199698302771
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