Author:
Cao Hong-Min,Migliori Giulia,Giroletti Marcello,Frey Sándor,Yang Jun,Gabányi Krisztina É.,Cui Lang,An Tao,Hong Xiao-Yu,Zhang Wen-Da
Abstract
AT2019wey is a transient discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey in December of 2019. Follow-up optical, radio, and X-ray observations led to classification of this source as a Galactic black hole X-ray binary candidate. We carried out one-epoch 6.7 GHz European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network and two-epoch multi-frequency (1.6, 4.5, 6.7 GHz) Very Long Baseline Array observations within a year after its discovery. These observations reveal a fading and flat-spectrum radio source with no discernible motion. These features suggest the detection of a compact jet. The source appears resolved at milliarcsecond scales, and the source angular size versus frequency trend is consistent with scatter broadening. This allows us to constrain the lower limit of the source distance to 6 kpc if the scattering medium is in a Galactic spiral arm. For a source location at greater than 3 kpc, the estimated upper limit of the peculiar velocity suggests the asymmetric natal kick may have occurred during the black hole formation stage.
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
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