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AGN喷气动力真的有二分法吗?

Is there really a dichotomy in AGN jet power?

J. W. Broderick, R. P. Fender

摘要:

为了获得新的见解无线电响亮/无线电安静的二分法报告的活动星系核,我们研究无线电响度作为爱丁顿比的函数,以前公布的样本199 AGN从五个不同的人群。在最初考虑使用总射电光度导出的射电光度后,我们仅使用核心射电光度重复调查,对这些核心光度应用先前建立的质量校正。在这两种情况下,对于爱丁顿比<1%,Fanaroff-Riley I型和宽线射电星系平均比Seyfert和低电离核发射线区星系更响亮。然而,对于质量校正的仅核心样本的射电响度的分布比明显双峰的总射电响度分布窄得多。本文讨论了用核心或瓣主导射电光度作为瞬时喷流功率量度的优缺点。此外,我们比较了整个样本的核心和总的射电光度,以及说明质量项的重要性,通过比较活动星系核与黑洞X射线双星的样本。我们的结论是,如果质量校正的核心射电光度是一个很好的衡量喷流功率,那么黑洞自旋可能有相当小的影响喷流功率比以前报道的,或者我们的样本不包括极端的自旋。如果喷流功率的传播很小,那么我们建议周围环境和/或射电源年龄的特性在产生总射电光度中看到的无线电大声/无线电安静的二分法中同样重要。

英文摘要:

To gain new insights into the radio-loud/radio-quiet dichotomy reported for active galactic nuclei, we examine radio loudness as a function of Eddington ratio for a previously published sample of 199 AGN from five different populations. After initially considering radio loudnesses derived using total radio luminosities, we repeat the investigation using core radio luminosities only, applying a previously established mass correction for these core luminosities. In both cases, for Eddington ratios < 1 per cent, Fanaroff-Riley type I and broad-line radio galaxies are on average more radio-loud than Seyfert and low-ionization nuclear emission-line region galaxies. However, the distribution of radio loudnesses for the mass-corrected, core-only sample is much narrower than that of the clearly bimodal total radio loudness distribution. The advantages and disadvantages of using core- or lobe-dominated radio luminosity as a measure of instantaneous jet power are discussed. We furthermore compare the core and total radio luminosities for the entire sample, as well as illustrating the importance of the mass term by comparing the AGN with a sample of black hole X-ray binaries. We conclude that if the mass-corrected core radio luminosity is a good measure of jet power, then black hole spin may have considerably less impact on jet power than previously reported, or that our sample does not include the extremes of spin. If the spread in jet power is small then we suggest that characteristics of the ambient environment and/or the radio source age could be equally as important in producing a radio-loud/radio-quiet dichotomy seen in total radio luminosity.

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