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A model for the relation between radio jet power and the product of central black hole (BH) mass and Eddington ratio of AGN is proposed, and the model is examined with data from the literature. We find that radio jet power positively…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-08 Xiang Liu , Zhenhua Han

The correlation between the jet power and accretion disk luminosity is investigated and analyzed with our model for 7 samples of low luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs). The main results are: (1) the power-law correlation index…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 Renzhi Su , Xiang Liu , Zhen Zhang

From Liu and Han (2014), the accretion-dominated jet power has a linear proportionality with the accretion rate, whereas the power law index is <=0.5 at lower accretion rate. Attributing the jet power in low accretion rate AGN to the black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-10 Xiang Liu , Zhen Zhang , Zhenhua Han

The fundamental plane of black hole activity is a relation between X-ray luminosity, radio luminosity, and black hole mass for hard state Galactic black holes and their supermassive analogs. The fundamental plane suggests that, at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Richard M. Plotkin , Sera Markoff , Brandon C. Kelly , Elmar Koerding , Scott F. Anderson

In this paper we discuss the recent advances in the quantitative comparison of accretion, and the accretion:jet coupling, in accreting black holes in both X-ray binaries (where M ~ 10Msun) and Active Galactic Nuclei (10^5Msun < M <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-16 Rob Fender , Elmar Koerding , Tomaso Belloni , Phil Uttley , Ian McHardy , Tasso Tzioumis

It is widely known that in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs), there is a tight correlation among their radio luminosity ($L_R$), X-ray luminosity ($L_X$) and BH mass ($\mbh$), the so-called `fundamental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Lei Qian , Xiao-Bo Dong , Fu-Guo Xie , Wenjuan Liu , Di Li

The idea of a unified description of supermassive and stellar black holes has been supported by the extension of the empirical radio/X-ray correlation from X-ray binaries to active galactic nuclei through the inclusion of a mass term. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elmar Koerding , Heino Falcke , Sephane Corbel

We examine the disc--jet connection in stellar mass and supermassive black holes by investigating the properties of their compact emission in the X-ray and radio bands. We compile a sample of ~100 active galactic nuclei with measured mass,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Andrea Merloni , Sebastian Heinz , Tiziana Di Matteo

The fundamental plane of black hole activity (BHFP) describes the correlation between radio luminosity ($L_R$), X-ray luminosity ($L_X$), and black hole mass. It reflects a disc-jet connection. However, dependence of BHFP on various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Yijun Wang , Tao Wang , Luis C. Ho , Yuxing Zhong , Bin Luo

The spin of supermassive black holes could power jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN), although direct observational evidence for this conjecture is sparse. The accretion disk luminosity and jet power, on the other hand, have long been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Sjoert van Velzen , Heino Falcke

The properties of relativistic radio jets are thought to be closely connected with the properties of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei. We explore this issue using a sample of 35 blazars with very-long baseline observations, for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jian-Min Wang , Bin Luo , Luis C. Ho

The fundamental plane for black hole activity constitutes a tight correlation between jet power, X-ray luminosity, and black hole mass. Under the assumption that a Blandford-Znajek-type mechanism, which relies on black hole spin,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 David Garofalo , Matthew I. Kim , Damian J. Christian

Studying a sample of both strongly and weakly active galactic nuclei with measured masses and 5 GHz and 2-10 keV core luminosities, together with a few galactic black holes simultaneously observed in the radio and X-ray bands, Merloni,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Merloni

Black hole accretion and jet production are areas of intensive study in astrophysics. Recent work has found a relation between radio luminosity, X-ray luminosity, and black hole mass. With the assumption that radio and X-ray luminosity are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Kayhan Gultekin , Edward M. Cackett , Jon M. Miller , Tiziana Di Matteo , Sera Markoff , Douglas O. Richstone

The Fundamental Plane (FP) of Black Hole (BH) Activity in galactic nuclei relates X-ray and radio luminosities to BH mass and accretion rate. However, there is a large scatter exhibited by the data, which motivated us for a new variable. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Caner Unal , Abraham Loeb

A toy model for jet powers and radio loudness of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is proposed based on the coexistence of the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) and magnetic coupling (MC) processes (CEBZMC) in black hole (BH) accretion disc. It turns out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Yong-Chun Ye , Ding-Xiong Wang

We report the discovery of the ``mm fundamental plane of black-hole accretion'', which is a tight correlation between the nuclear 1 mm luminosity ($L_{\rm \nu, mm}$), the intrinsic $2$ -- $10$~keV X-ray luminosity ($L_{\rm X,2-10}$) and the…

We studied the relation of accretion-jet power and disk luminosity, especially the jet efficiencies and disk radiative efficiencies for different accretion disks as well as black hole (BH) spin, in order to explore the origin of radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-25 Xiang Liu , Ning Chang , Xin Wang , Qi Yuan

We explore the evolution in power of black holes of all masses, and their associated jets, within the scheme of an accretion rate-dependent state transition. Below a critical value of the accretion rate all systems are assumed to undergo a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Heino Falcke , Elmar Koerding , Sera Markoff

In this paper I review the results of our ongoing project to investigate the coupling between accretion disk and radio jet in galactic nuclei and stellar mass black holes. We find a good correlation between the UV bump luminosity and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Heino Falcke
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