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Correlation between radio and broad-line emissions in radio-loud quasars

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Radio emission is a good indicator of the jet power of radio-loud quasars, while the emission in broad-line can well represent the accretion disc radiation in quasars. We compile a sample of all sources of which the broad-line fluxes are available from 1 Jy, S4 and S5 radio source catalogues. A correlation between radio and broad-line emission for this sample of radio-loud quasars is presented, which is in favour of a close link between the accretion processes and the relativistic jets. The BL Lac objects seem to follow the statistical behaviour of the quasars, but with fainter broad-line emission.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9904322,
  title  = {Correlation between radio and broad-line emissions in radio-loud quasars},
  author = {Xinwu Cao and D. R. Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9904322},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS