Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012ap%26ss.337..331p&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 337, Issue 1, pp.331-334
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: High-Redshift, Radio Continuum: Galaxies
Scientific paper
Using a homogenous sample of 1962 quasars with redshift 3.0≤ z≲4.5 drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we study the relationships between radio loudness, virial black hole (BH) mass and Eddington ratio (accretion rate relative to the Eddington limit). For the radio-detected objects, we find a significant (>99.5 per cent) anticorrelation between radio loudness R parameter and BH mass, consistent with previous studies of low-redshift radio-loud quasars. The truly radio-loud quasars ( R>30) are found to be confined to M BH≲1010 M&sun; within our sample. We also find that R is only weakly correlated with Eddington ratio L bol/ L Edd. Combined with previous results on the low-redshift R- L bol/ L Edd relation, this result indicates no strong L bol/ L Edd dependence of R at L bol/ L Edd≳10-2. On the other hand, the large scatter in these relationships suggests that other physical properties such as BH spin and quasar clustering must also play an important role in quasar radio emission.
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