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Studies of black hole spin and other parameters as a function of redshift provide information about the physical state and merger and accretion histories of the systems. One way that black hole spin may be estimated is through observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ruth A. Daly

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

We explore the connection between black hole spin and AGN power by addressing the consequences underlying the assumption in the recent literature that the gap region between accretion disks and black holes is fundamental in producing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Garofalo

Supermassive black holes may be described by their mass and spin. When supermassive black holes are active, the activity provides a probe of the state of the black hole system. The spin of a hole can be estimated when the black hole mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ruth A. Daly , Trevor B. Sprinkle

Black hole systems, comprised of a black hole, accretion disk, and collimated outflow are studied here. Three AGN samples including 753 AGN, and 102 measurements of 4 GBH are studied. Applying the theoretical considerations described by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Ruth A. Daly

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

Using 5 GHz radio luminosity at light-curve maximum as a proxy for jet power and black-hole spin measurements obtained via the continuum-fitting method, Narayan & McClintock (2012) presented the first direct evidence for a relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 James F. Steiner , Jeffrey E. McClintock , Ramesh Narayan

Six archival Chandra observations are matched with eight sets of radio data and studied in the context of the outflow method to measure and study the spin properties of $\rm{Sgr ~A^*}$. Three radio and X-ray data sets obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Ruth A. Daly , Megan Donahue , Christopher P. O'Dea , Biny Sebastian , Daryl Haggard , Anan Lu

The rotational properties of astrophysical black holes are fundamental quantities that characterization the black holes. A new method to empirically determine the spin mass-energy characteristics of astrophysical black holes is presented…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Ruth A. Daly

The theoretical model suggests that relativistic jets of AGN rely on the black hole spin and/or accretion. We study the relationship between jet, accretion, and spin using supermassive black hole samples with reliable spin of black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-11 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Jianghe Yang , Junhui Fan , Xiaoling Yu , Dingrong Xiong , Nan Ding , Xiaotong Guo

We determined the spin value of supermassive black hole (SMBH) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) with investigated ultraviolet-to-optical spectral energy distribution, presented in the sample of Shang et al. (2005). The estimates of the spin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 M. Yu. Piotrovich , Yu. N. Gnedin , T. M. Natsvlishvili , S. D. Buliga

Mass and spin are two fundamental properties of astrophysical black holes. While some established, indirect methods are adopted to measure both these properties of active galactic nuclei (AGN) when viewed relatively face-on, very few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 Alberto Masini , Annalisa Celotti , Samuele Campitiello

The mechanism by which outflows and plausible jets are driven from black hole systems, still remains observationally elusive. Notwithstanding, several observational evidences and deeper theoretical insights reveal that accretion and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Shubhrangshu Ghosh , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

By performing two-dimensional axisymmetric general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spin parameter $a^*$ varying from -0.9 to 0.9, we investigate the dependence on the black hole spin of the energy flow from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Aoto Utsumi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

The spins of stellar-mass black holes (BHs) and the power outputs of their jets are measurable quantities. Unfortunately, the currently employed methods do not agree and the results are controversial. Two major issues concern the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 D. M. Christodoulou , I. Contopoulos , D. Kazanas , J. F. Steiner , D. B. Papadopoulos , S. G. T. Laycock

High resolution radio imaging of AGN have revealed that some sources present motion of superluminal knots and transverse stratification of their jet. Recent observational projects have provided new observational constraints on the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 L. Chantry , V. Cayatte , C. Sauty , N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos

Unbounded outflows in the form of highly collimated jets and broad winds appear to be a ubiquitous feature of accreting black hole systems. The most powerful jets are thought to derive a significant fraction, if not the majority, of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrew J. Benson , Arif Babul

Recently, Allen et al. measured a tight correlation between the Bondi accretion rates and jet powers of the nuclei of nearby X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies. We employ two models of jet powering to understand the above correlation and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower , Arif Babul , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

Observations of jets in X-ray binaries show a correlation between radio power and black hole spin. This correlation, if confirmed, points towards the idea that relativistic jets may be powered by the rotational energy of black holes. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-03 Michael O' Riordan , Asaf Pe'er , Jonathan C. McKinney

Since the seminal work of Penrose (1969) and Blandford & Znajek (1977), it has been realized that black hole spin may be an important energy source in astrophysics. The radio-loud/radio-quiet dichotomy in the AGN population is usually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-25 L. Brenneman , J. M. Miller , K. Nandra , M. Volonteri , M. Cappi , G. Matt , S. Kitamoto , F. Paerels , M. Mendez , R. Smith , M. Nowak , M. Garcia , M. Watson , M. Weisskopf , Y. Terashima , Y. Ueda
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