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Ultrafast Outflows from Black Hole Mergers with a Mini-Disk

arXiv:1602.06938 · doi:10.3847/2041-8205/822/1/L9

Abstract

Recently, the direct detection of gravitational waves from black hole (BH) mergers was announced by the Advanced LIGO Collaboration. Multi-messenger counterparts of stellar-mass BH mergers are of interest, and it had been suggested that a small disk or celestial body may be involved in the binary of two BHs. To test such possibilities, we consider the fate of a wind powered by an active mini-disk in a relatively short, super-Eddington accretion episode onto a BH with ~10-100 solar masses. We show that its thermal emission could be seen as a fast optical transient with the duration from hours to days. We also find that the coasting outflow forms external shocks due to interaction with the interstellar medium, whose synchrotron emission might be expected in the radio band on a time scale of years. Finally, we also discuss a possible jet component and the associated high-energy neutrino emission as well as ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray acceleration.

arXiv comment5 pages, accepted for publication in ApJL, discussions added, some typos fixed. Conclusions unchanged

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