Global Jet Watch

Abstract:

A succession of near-IR spectroscopic observations, taken nightly throughout an entire cycle of SS 433's orbit with UKIRT, reveal (i) the persistent signature of SS 433's accretion disc, having a rotation speed of ∼ 500 kms-1and (ii) confirms the presence of the circumbinary disc recently discovered at optical wavelengths by Blundell, Bowler & Schmidtobreick (2008) and (iii) detects a much faster outflow than has previously been measured from the disc wind. Our relatively high spectral resolution at these near-IR wavelengths has enabled us to deconstruct the different components, and their physical origins, that comprise the Brackett-γ line in this binary system. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike Licence.

Abstract:

A succession of near-IR spectroscopic observations, taken nightly throughout an entire cycle of SS 433's orbit with UKIRT, reveal (i) the persistent signature of SS 433's accretion disc, having a rotation speed of ∼ 500 kms-1and (ii) confirms the presence of the circumbinary disc recently discovered at optical wavelengths by Blundell, Bowler & Schmidtobreick (2008) and (iii) detects a much faster outflow than has previously been measured from the disc wind. Our relatively high spectral resolution at these near-IR wavelengths has enabled us to deconstruct the different components, and their physical origins, that comprise the Brackett-γ line in this binary system. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike Licence.

Abstract:

We present an initial matching of the source positions of the Chandra Nuclear Bulge X-ray sources to the new UKIDSS-GPS near-infrared survey of the Nuclear. Bulge. This task is made difficult by the extremely crowded nature of the region; despite this, we find candidate counterparts to similar to 50% of the X-ray sources. We show that detection in the J-band for a candidate counterpart to an X-ray source preferentially selects those candidate counterparts in the foreground whereas candidate counterparts with only detections in the H and K-bands are more likely to be Nuclear Bulge sources. We discuss the planned follow-up for these candidate counterparts.