2025ApJ...986..135K -
Astrophys. J., 986, 135 (2025/June-3)
Detection Prospects of Electromagnetic Signatures from OGLE-2011-BLG-0462.
KIMURA S.S., MURCHIKOVA L. and SAHU K.C.
Abstract (from CDS):
Stellar-mass isolated black holes wandering in the interstellar medium are expected to be abundant in our Galaxy. Recently, an isolated free floating black hole (IsoBH), OGLE-2011-BLG-0462, was unambiguously discovered using astrometric microlensing. We examine prospects for detecting electromagnetic signatures from an accretion flow surrounding the IsoBH. The accretion rate onto the IsoBH should be highly sub-Eddington, which leads to formation of a hot accretion flow. In this paper, we evaluate the detectability of electromagnetic signals from the hot accretion flows in two accretion states: magnetically arrested disk (MAD) and classical radiatively inefficient accretion flows (RIAFs). For the MAD scenario, we find that the optical, infrared, and X-ray signals can be detectable by the current best facilities, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST, and Chandra, if the IsoBH is in a warm neutral medium. In contrast, for the classical RIAF scenario, the optical and X-ray emissions are weaker than the MAD scenario, leading to unobservable signals for a typical parameter set. Future follow-up observations of OGLE-2011-BLG-0462 will provide a good test for theories of accretion processes.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Astrophysical black holes - Accretion - Black holes - Bondi accretion - Non-thermal radiation sources
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