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arxiv: 1210.2641 · v1 · pith:CJ2MPI7Gnew · submitted 2012-10-09 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · gr-qc

Mass estimate of the Swift J 164449.3+573451 supermassive black hole based on the 3:2 QPO resonance hypothesis

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A dormant Swift source J 164449.3+573451 (Sw 164449+57)recently experienced a powerful outburst, caused most probably by a tidal disruption of a star by the super-massive black hole at the center of the source. During the outburst, a quasi periodic oscillation (QPO) was detected in the observed X-ray flux from Sw 164449+57. We show that if the observed QPO belongs to a "3:2 twin peak QPO" (with the second frequency not observed), the mass of the black hole in Sw 164449+57 is rather low, M ~ 10^5 M_sun, and the source belongs to a class of intermediate mass black holes. The low mass of the source has been pointed out previously by several authors.

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