Radio Loud and Radio Quiet Active Galactic Nuclei
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We generated a sample of 409 AGNs for which both the radio luminosity at 5 GHz and the line luminosity in [OIII] 5007 have been measured. The radio luminosity spans a range of ten orders of magnitude, and the [OIII] line luminosity spans a range of eight orders of magnitude --- both considerably larger than the ranges in previous studies. We show that these two quantities are correlated in a similar way for both radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs. We demonstrate that the observed correlation can be explained in terms of a model in which jets are accelerated and collimated by a vertical magnetic field.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9905322,
title = {Radio Loud and Radio Quiet Active Galactic Nuclei},
author = {Chun Xu and Mario Livio and Stefi A. Baum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9905322},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
45 pages inc. 7 figures, 1 table of 15 pages in ps-format. Accept to AJ September 1999