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The Jet Power, Radio Loudness, and Black Hole Mass in Radio‐loud Active Galactic Nuclei
- Source :
- The Astrophysical Journal. 637:669-681
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- American Astronomical Society, 2006.
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Abstract
- The jet formation is thought to be closely connected with the mass of central supermassive black hole in Active Galactic Nuclei. The radio luminosity commonly used in investigating this issue is merely an indirect measure of the energy transported through the jets from the central engine, and severely Doppler boosted in core-dominated radio quasars. In this work, we investigate the relationship between the jet power and black hole mass, by estimating the jet power using extrapolated extended 151 MHz flux density from the VLA 5 GHz extended radio emission, for a sample of 146 radio loud quasars complied from literature. After removing the effect of relativistic beaming in the radio and optical emission, we find a significant intrinsic correlation between the jet power and black hole mass. It strongly implies that the jet power, so as jet formation, is closely connected with the black hole this http URL eliminate the beaming effect in the conventional radio loudness, we define a new radio loudness as the ratio of the radio extended luminosity to the optical luminosity estimated from the broad line this http URL a tentatively combined sample of radio quiet with our radio loud quasars, the apparent gap around the conventional radio loudness R=10 is not prominent for the new-defined radio loudness. In this combined sample, we find a significant correlation between the black hole mass and new-defined radio loudness.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Jet (fluid)
Supermassive black hole
Active galactic nucleus
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Quasar
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Loudness
Luminosity
Black hole
Relativistic beaming
Space and Planetary Science
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15384357 and 0004637X
- Volume :
- 637
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2c4081744147c6b41b65bacb46198230