Compact radio emission from z~0.2 X-ray bright AGN

Details Compact radio emission from z~0.2 X-ray bright AGN Compact radio emission from z~0.2 X-ray bright AGN

2012-04-14

arxiv.org/abs/1204.3162v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to A&A

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Radio and X-ray emission of AGN appears to be correlated. The details of the underlying physical processes, however, are still not fully understood, i.e., to what extent is the X-ray and radio emission originating from the same relativistic particles or from the accretion-disk or corona or both. We study the cm radio emission of an SDSS/ROSAT/FIRST matched sample of 13 X-raying AGN in the redshift range 0.11< z < 0.37 at high angular resolution with the goal of searching for jet structures or diffuse, extended emission on sub-kpc scales. We use MERLIN at 18 cm for all objects and Western EVN at 18 cm for four objects to study the radio emission on scales of ~500 pc and ~40 pc for the MERLIN and EVN observations, respectively. The detected emission is dominated by compact nuclear radio structures. We find no kpc collimated jet structures. The EVN data indicate for compact nuclei on 40 pc scales, with brightness temperatures typical for accretion-disk scenarios. Comparison with FIRST shows that the 18 cm emission is resolved out up to 50% by MERLIN. Star-formation rates based on large aperture SDSS spectra are generally too small to produce considerable contamination of the nuclear radio emission. We can, therefore, assume the 18 cm flux densities to be produced in the nuclei of the AGN. Together with the ROSAT soft X-ray luminosities and black hole mass estimates from the literature, our sample objects follow closely the Merloni et al. (2003) fundamental plane relation, which appears to trace the accretion processes. Detailed X-ray spectral modeling from deeper hard X-ray observations and higher angular resolution at radio wavelengths are required to further proceed in the disentangling of jet and accretion related processes.

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