Quasi-Periodic Variations in X-ray Emission and Long-Term Radio Observations: Evidence for a Two-Component Jet in Sw J1644+57

Abstract

The continued observations of Sw J1644+57 in X-ray and radio bands accumulated a rich data set to study the relativistic jet launched in this tidal disruption event. The X-ray light curve of Sw J1644+57 from 5-30 days presents two kinds of quasi-periodic variations: a 200 second quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) and a 2.7-day quasi-periodic variation. The latter has been interpreted by a precessing jet launched near the Bardeen-Petterson radius of a warped disk. Here we suggest that the $\sim$ 200s QPO could be associated with a second, narrower jet sweeping the observer line-of-sight periodically, which is launched from a spinning black hole in the misaligned direction with respect to the black hole's angular momentum. In addition, we show that this two-component jet model can interpret the radio light curve of the event, especially the re-brightening feature starting $\sim 100$ days after the trigger. From the data we infer that inner jet may have a Lorentz factor of ${\Gamma }_{\mathrm{j}}\sim 5.5$ and a kinetic energy of $E_{\mathrm{k},\mathrm{iso}}\sim 3.0\times 10^{52}\mathrm{erg}$, while the outer jet may have a Lorentz factor of ${\Gamma }_{\mathrm{j}}\sim 2.5$ and a kinetic energy of $E_{\mathrm{k},\mathrm{iso}}\sim 3.0\times 10^{53}\mathrm{erg}$.

11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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