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			<titleStmt><title level='a'>Gone with the Wind: JWST-MIRI Unveils a Strong Outflow from the Quiescent Stellar-mass Black Hole A0620-00</title></titleStmt>
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				<publisher>The Astrophysical Journal</publisher>
				<date>09/24/2025</date>
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					<idno type="par_id">10682414</idno>
					<idno type="doi">10.3847/1538-4357/adf6b9</idno>
					<title level='j'>The Astrophysical Journal</title>
<idno>0004-637X</idno>
<biblScope unit="volume">991</biblScope>
<biblScope unit="issue">2</biblScope>					

					<author>Zihao Zuo</author><author>Gabriele Cugno</author><author>Joseph Michail</author><author>Elena Gallo</author><author>David M Russell</author><author>Richard M Plotkin</author><author>Fan Zou</author><author>M Cristina Baglio</author><author>Piergiorgio Casella</author><author>Fraser J Cowie</author><author>Rob Fender</author><author>Poshak Gandhi</author><author>Sera Markoff</author><author>Federico Vincentelli</author><author>Fraser Lewis</author><author>Jon M Miller</author><author>James CA Miller-Jones</author><author>Alexandra Veledina</author>
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			<abstract><ab><![CDATA[<title>Abstract</title> <p>We present new observations of the black hole X-ray binary A0620-00 using the Mid-Infrared (MIR) Instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope, during a state where the X-ray luminosity is 9 orders of magnitude below Eddington, and coordinated with radio, near-infrared, and optical observations. The goal is to understand the nature of the excess MIR emission originally detected by Spitzer redward of 8<italic>μ</italic>m. The stellar-subtracted MIR spectrum is well modeled by a power law with a spectral index of<italic>α</italic>=0.72±0.01, where the flux density scales with frequency as<italic>F</italic><sub><italic>ν</italic></sub>∝<italic>ν</italic><sup><italic>α</italic></sup>. The spectral characteristics, along with rapid variability—a 40% flux flare at 15<italic>μ</italic>m and 25% achromatic variability in the 5–12<italic>μ</italic>m range—rule out a circumbinary disk as the source of the MIR excess. The Low Resolution Spectrometer reveals a prominent emission feature at 7.5<italic>μ</italic>m, resulting from the blend of three hydrogen recombination lines. While the contribution from partially self-absorbed synchrotron radiation cannot be ruled out, we argue that thermal bremsstrahlung from a warm (a few tens of thousands of Kelvin) wind accounts for the MIR excess; the same outflow is responsible for the emission lines. The inferred mass outflow rate indicates that the system’s low luminosity is due to a substantial fraction of the mass supplied by the donor star being expelled through a wind rather than accreted onto the black hole.</p>]]></ab></abstract>
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