Revisiting the "Fundamental Plane" of Black Hole Activity at Extremely Low Luminosities

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2009-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/0902.3704v2

Astrophys.J.703:1034-1043,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

24 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures; accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/703/1/1034

We investigate the origin of the X-ray emission in low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs). Yuan & Cui (2005) predicted that the X-ray emission should originate from jets rather than from an advection-dominated accretion flow (ADAF) when the X-ray luminosity $L_{\rm X}$ of the source is below a critical value of $L_{\rm X,crit} \approx 10^{-6}L_{\rm Edd}$. This prediction implies that the X-ray spectrum in such sources should be fitted by jets rather than ADAFs. Furthermore, below $L_{\rm X,crit}$ the correlation between radio ($L_{\rm R}$) and X-ray ($L_{\rm X}$) luminosities and the black hole mass ($M$)--the so-called fundamental plane of black hole activity--should deviate from the general correlation obtained by Merloni, Heinz & Di Matteo (2003) and become steeper. The Merloni et al. correlation is described by ${\rm log}L_{\rm R} =0.6{\rm log}L_{\rm X}+0.78{\rm log}M+7.33$, while the predicted correlation is ${\rm log}L_{\rm R}=1.23{\rm log}L_{\rm X} +0.25{\rm log}M-13.45$. We collect data from the literature to check the validity of these two expectations. We find that among the 16 LLAGNs with good X-ray and radio spectra, 13 are consistent with the Yuan & Cui prediction. For the 22 LLAGNs with $L_{\rm X} < L_{\rm X,crit}$, the fundamental plane correlation is described by ${\rm log}L_{\rm R}=1.22{\rm log}L_{\rm X}+0.23{\rm log}M-12.46 $, also in excellent agreement with the prediction.

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