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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

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 (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

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

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

Whether the X-ray emissions of strong jet sources originate from disk+coronas or jets is still controversial. In this work, we constructed a strong jet sample containing 50 flat-spectrum radio quasars, 51 low-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-11 Qing-Chen. Long , Ai-Jun. Dong , Qi-Jun. Zhi , Lun-Hua. Shuang

The correlation between the jet power and accretion disk luminosity is investigated for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) from the literature. The power-law correlation index is steep ($\mu \sim$ 1.0--1.4)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-20 Xiang Liu , Zhenhua Han , Zhen Zhang

We perform axisymmetric two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington accretion flow and outflow around black holes to examine the properties of radiation and outflow as functions of the black hole mass and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-24 Shogo Yoshioka , Shin Mineshige , Ken Ohsuga , Tomohisa Kawashima , Takaaki Kitaki

Recent observations suggest that in black hole X-ray binaries jet/outflow formation is related to the hot plasma in the vicinity of the black hole, either in the form of an advection-dominated accretion flow at low accretion rates or in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Qingwen Wu , Xinwu Cao , Luis C. Ho , Ding-Xiong Wang

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

We have analyzed a large sample of clean blazars detected by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using literature and calculation, we obtained intrinsic $\gamma$-ray luminosity excluding beaming effect, black hole mass, broad-line luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Dingrong Xiong , Xiong Zhang

The fundamental plane of black hole activity is an empirical relationship between the OIII/X-ray luminosity depicting the accretion power, the radio luminosity as a probe of the instantaneous jet power and the mass of the black hole. For…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Payaswini Saikia , Elmar Körding , Salome Dibi

Black hole accretion and jet formation have long been thought to be scale invariant. One empirical relation suggesting scale invariance is the Fundamental Plane of Black Hole activity, which is a plane in the space given by black hole mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Payaswini Saikia , Elmar Körding , Heino Falcke

An analysis of the radio and X-ray luminosities, along with black hole masses has led to a relationship, the fundamental plane of black hole activity, where logL_R = 0.60logL_X + 0.78logM_BH. We show that this same relationship can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 Joel N. Bregman

The `fundamental plane of black hole accretion' (FP), a relation between the radio luminosities ($L_R$), X-ray luminosities ($L_X$), and masses ($M_{BH}$) of hard/quiescent state black hole binaries and low-luminosity active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 R. M. T. Connors , S. Markoff , M. A. Nowak , J. Neilsen , C. Ceccobello , P. Crumley , C. S. Froning , E. Gallo , J. E. Nip

Powerful supermassive black hole (SMBH) winds in the form of ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) are detected in the X-ray spectra of several active galactic nuclei (AGN) seemingly independently of their radio classification between radio quiet (RQ)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 S. Mestici , F. Tombesi , M. Gaspari , E. Piconcelli , F. Panessa

We investigate the correlation between 151 MHz radio luminosity, L_151MHz, and jet power, P_jet, for a sample of low-power radio galaxies, of which the jet power is estimated from X-ray cavities. The jet power for a sample of FR I radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Qingwen Wu , Xinwu Cao , Ding-Xiong Wang

Powerful jetted radio sources for which the luminosity in directed kinetic energy has been empirically determined, independent of assumptions, are considered. The total outflow lifetime of each source determined in the context of detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Ruth A. Daly

Most of the electromagnetic output of blazars (BL Lac objects and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars) comes out in the gamma-ray band, making the Large Area Telescope [0.1-100 GeV] onboard the Fermi satellite and the Cherenkov telescopes crucial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Ghisellini

We derived the black hole fundamental plane relationship among the 1.4GHz radio luminosity (L_r), 0.1-2.4keV X-ray luminosity (L_X), and black hole mass (M) from a uniform broad line SDSS AGN sample including both radio loud and radio quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ran Wang , Xue-Bing Wu , Min-Zhi Kong
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