English

Baryon Loading Efficiency and Particle Acceleration Efficiency of Relativistic Jets: Cases For Low Luminosity BL Lacs

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-08-31 v2

Abstract

Relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes, so-called as active galactic nuclei (AGNs), are known as the most energetic particle accelerators in the universe. However, the baryon loading efficiency onto the jets from the accretion flows and their particle acceleration efficiencies have been veiled in mystery. With the latest data sets, we perform multi-wavelength spectral analysis of quiescent spectra of 13 TeV gamma-ray detected high-frequency-peaked BL Lacs (HBLs) following one-zone static synchrotron-self-Compton (SSC) model. We determine the minimum, cooling break, and maximum electron Lorentz factors following the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) theory. We find that HBLs have PB/Pe6.3×103P_B/P_e\sim6.3\times10^{-3} and the radiative efficiency ϵrad,jet6.7×104\epsilon_{\rm rad,jet}\sim6.7\times10^{-4} where PBP_B and PeP_e is the Poynting and electron power, respectively. By assuming 10 leptons per one proton, the jet power relates to the black hole mass as Pjet/LEdd0.18P_{\rm jet}/L_{\rm Edd}\sim0.18 where PjetP_{\rm jet} and LEddL_{\rm Edd} is the jet power and the Eddington luminosity, respectively. Under our model assumptions, we further find that HBLs have the jet production efficiency of ηjet1.5\eta_{\rm jet}\sim1.5 and the mass loading efficiency of ξjet5×102\xi_{\rm jet}\gtrsim5\times10^{-2}. We also investigate the particle acceleration efficiency in the blazar zone by including the most recent Swift/BAT data. Our samples ubiquitously have the particle acceleration efficiency of ηg104.5\eta_g\sim10^{4.5}, which is inefficient to accelerate particles up to the ultra-high-energy-cosmic-ray (UHECR) regime. This implies that the UHECR acceleration sites should be other than the blazar zones of quiescent low power AGN jets, if one assumes the one-zone SSC model based on the DSA theory.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.07623,
  title  = {Baryon Loading Efficiency and Particle Acceleration Efficiency of Relativistic Jets: Cases For Low Luminosity BL Lacs},
  author = {Yoshiyuki Inoue and Yasuyuki T. Tanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07623},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

21 pages, 15 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ. Various pair fraction cases are newly considered in the accepted version