The emission spectrum from isolated black holes

  • Gwon, Sun-Ja (Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Park, Myeong-Gu (Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Science, Kyungpook National University)
  • Published : 2015.04.10

Abstract

There could be significant numbers of isolated stellar mass black holes in our Galaxy. The detection of these black holes will provide important clues on the origin of supermassive black holes. Interstellar gas will be accreted to these isolated black holes in nearly spherical flow. The gas and the interstellar magnetic field will be compressed and emit bremsstrahlung and magnetic bremsstrahlung. We calculate the density, temperature, magnetic field of the accretion flow onto a 10 solar mass black hole as well as its radiative emission; special attention is given to cyclotron radiation and synchrotron radiation, which covers from microwave to X-ray. We consider the possibility to detect these radiation from isolated Galactic black holes with current instruments and surveys.

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