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Radio jets are present in a diverse sample of AGN. However, the mechanisms of jet powering are not fully understood, and it is yet unclear to what extent they obey mass-invariant scaling relations, similar to those found for the triggering…

Models of jet production in black hole systems suggest that the properties of the accretion disk - such as its mass accretion rate, inner radius, and emergent magnetic field - should drive and modulate the production of relativistic jets.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 J. M. Miller , G. G. Pooley , A. C. Fabian , M. A. Nowak , R. C. Reis , E. M. Cackett , K. Pottschmidt , J. Wilms

The X-ray, Ultraviolet, Optical emission from radio-quiet AGNs, black hole binaries, and other compact sources, in general, follow a lognormal flux distribution, a linear rms-flux relation, and a (broken) power-law power spectral densities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Pankaj Kushwaha , Atreyee Sinha , Ranjeev Misra , K. P. Singh , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We compiled a sample of 24 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), 21 BL Lacs, 13 FRI and 12 FRII radio galaxies to study the jet power and broad-line luminosity relation, and the jet power and black hole mass relation. Furthermore, we obtain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Yongyun Chen , Xiong Zhang , Haojing Zhang , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaoling Yu , Yongjuan Cha , Bijun Li , Xia Huang

We investigate how the total radio luminosity of AGN-powered radio sources depends on their accretion luminosity and the central black hole mass. Our studies cover about seven orders of magnitude in accretion luminosity and the full range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Sikora , L. Stawarz , J. -P. Lasota

Accretion states, which are universally observed in stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries, are also anticipated in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This is the case at low luminosities, when the jet-corona coupling dominates the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Juan A. Fernández-Ontiveros , Teo Muñoz-Darias

High-energy cosmic rays (CRs) can be accelerated in the relativistic jets of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) powered by supermassive black holes. The baryon loading efficiency onto relativistic CR baryons from the accreting black holes is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Xin-Yue Shi , Yi Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

Accretion flows in both stellar and supermassive black holes show a distinct spectral transition. This is seen directly in binaries and changing look AGN, and also in a recent sample of eROSITA X-ray selected, unobscured AGN where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Jia-Lai Kang , Chris Done , Scott Hagen , Mai Liao , Matthew J. Temple , John D. Silverman , Junyao Li , Jun-Xian Wang

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

Over the last few years X-ray observations of broad-line radio galaxies (BLRGs) by ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX have shown that these objects seem to exhibit weaker X-ray reflection features (such as the iron K\alpha line) than radio-quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Ballantyne , R. R. Ross , A. C. Fabian

The apparent position angle difference $\Delta$PA between parsec and kilo-parsec jets in blazars can be related to the bending properties of the jets. We present correlations between the misalignment $\Delta$PA and the ratio of radio to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xinwu Cao

AGN jets are thought to be vital ingredients in galaxy evolution through the action of kinetic feedback; however, how narrow, relativistic outflows couple to galaxies remains an open question. Jet deceleration, which is often attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Talia M. O'Shea , Sebastian Heinz , Melinda Soares-Furtado , Zsofi Igo , Andrea Merloni

Feedback by Active Galactic Nuclei is often divided into quasar and radio mode, powered by radiation or radio jets, respectively. Both are fundamental in galaxy evolution, especially in late-type galaxies, as shown by cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 S. Cielo , R. Bieri , M. Volonteri , A. Wagner , Y. Dubois

Hard X-ray observations are crucial to study the non-thermal jet emission from high-redshift, powerful blazars. We observed two bright z>2 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in hard X-rays to explore the details of their relativistic jets…

The most accepted model for jet production is based on the magneto-centrifugal acceleration out off an accretion disk that surrounds the central source (Blandford & Payne, 1982). This scenario, however, does not explain, e.g., the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Pamela P. Piovezan , Luis H. S. Kadowaki , Grzegorz Kowal , Alex Lazarian

Two types of correlations between the radio and X-ray luminosities ($L_R$ and $L_X$) have been found in black hole X-ray binaries. For some sources, they follow the `original' type of correlation which is described by a single power-law.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Fu-Guo Xie , Feng Yuan

Estimates on different scales of the power of relativistic bulk motion in extragalactic and galactic jets are presented. The power in the jets and the power produced by the accretion disk are found to be roughly equal. This may suggest an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriele Ghisellini

We study the general physical properties of Fermi blazars using the Fermi fourth source catalog data (4FGL-DR2). The quasi-simultaneous multiwavelength data of Fermi blazar are fitted by using the one-zone leptonic model to obtain some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-03 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Xiaoling Yu , Xiaogu Zhong , Hongyu Liu , Nan Ding , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaotong Guo

We study an accretion disc with a hot continuous corona. We assume that the corona itself accretes and therefore it is powered directly by the release of the gravitational energy and cooled by radiative interaction with the disc. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. J. Witt , B. Czerny , P. T. Zycki

Massive molecular clouds have been discovered in massive elliptical galaxies at the center of galaxy clusters. Some of this cold gas is expected to flow in the central supermassive black holes and activate galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Yutaka Fujita , Takuma Izumi , Nozomu Kawakatu , Hiroshi Nagai , Ryo Hirasawa , Yu Ikeda