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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 445, 期 1, 页码 81-92出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu1759
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accretion, accretion discs; radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; BL Lacertae objects: general; quasars: general; gamma-rays: general
We present our latest results on the connection between accretion rate and relativistic jet power in active galactic nuclei (AGN), by using a large sample which includes mostly blazars, but contains also some radio galaxies. The jet power can be traced by gamma-ray luminosity in the case of blazars, and radio luminosity for both classes. The accretion-disc luminosity is instead traced by the broad emission lines. Among blazars, we find a correlation between broad line emission and the gamma-ray or radio luminosities, suggesting a direct tight connection between jet power and accretion rate. We confirm that the observational differences between blazar subclasses reflect differences in the accretion regime, but with blazars only we cannot properly access the low-accretion regime. By introducing radio galaxies, we succeed in observing the fingerprint of the transition between radiatively efficient and inefficient accretion discs in the jetted AGN family. The transition occurs at the standard critical value L-d/L-Edd similar to 10(-2) and it appears smooth. Below this value, the ionizing luminosity emitted by the accretion structure drops significantly.
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