A radio parallax to the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

Author:

Atri P1ORCID,Miller-Jones J C A1ORCID,Bahramian A1ORCID,Plotkin R M12ORCID,Deller A T3ORCID,Jonker P G45,Maccarone T J6,Sivakoff G R7,Soria R89,Altamirano D10,Belloni T11,Fender R12,Koerding E5,Maitra D13,Markoff S14,Migliari S1516,Russell D17ORCID,Russell T14ORCID,Sarazin C L18,Tetarenko A J19ORCID,Tudose V20

Affiliation:

1. International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia

2. Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA

3. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail Number H11, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia

4. SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, NL-3584 CA Utrecht, the Netherlands

5. Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands

6. Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Box 41051, Science Building, Lubbock, TX 79409-1051, USA

7. Department of Physics, University of Alberta, CCIS 4-183, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1, Canada

8. School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 52 Sanlihe Rd., Beijing 100864, China

9. Sydney Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW-2006, Australia

10. Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire SO17 1BJ, UK

11. INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy

12. Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK

13. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766, USA

14. Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, NL-1098XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands

15. XMM–Newton Science Operations Centre, ESAC/ESA, Camino Bajo del Castillo s/n, Urb. Villafranca del Castillo, E-28691 Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain

16. Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

17. Center for Astro, Particle and Planetary Physics, New York University Abu Dhabi, PO Box 129188, Abu Dhabi, UAE

18. Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, 530 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA

19. East Asian Observatory, 660 N. Aōhōku Place, University Park, Hilo, HI 96720, USA

20. Institute for Space Sciences, Atomistilor 409, PO Box MG-23, 077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania

Abstract

ABSTRACT Using the Very Long Baseline Array and the European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network, we have made a precise measurement of the radio parallax of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070, providing a model-independent distance to the source. Our parallax measurement of (0.348 ± 0.033) mas for MAXI J1820+070 translates to a distance of (2.96 ± 0.33) kpc. This distance implies that the source reached (15 ± 3) per cent of the Eddington luminosity at the peak of its outburst. Further, we use this distance to refine previous estimates of the jet inclination angle, jet velocity, and the mass of the black hole in MAXI J1820+070 to be (63 ± 3)°, (0.89 ± 0.09) c, and (9.2 ± 1.3) M⊙, respectively.

Funder

European Union Seventh Framework Programme

Australian Research Council

European Research Council

NSERC

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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