The bulk kinetic power of radio jets in active galactic nuclei

Details The bulk kinetic power of radio jets in active galactic nuclei The bulk kinetic power of radio jets in active galactic nuclei

2009-03-11

arxiv.org/abs/0903.1896v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

MNRAS accepted

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Based on the K\"onigl's inhomogeneous jet model, we estimate the jet parameters, such as bulk Lorentz factor $\Gamma$, viewing angle $\theta$ and electron number density $n_{\rm e}$ from radio VLBI and X-ray data for a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) assuming that the X-rays are from the jet rather than the intracluster gas. The bulk kinetic power of jets is then calculated using the derived jet parameters. We find a strong correlation between the total luminosity of broad emission lines and the bulk kinetic power of the jets. This result supports the scenario that the accretion process are tightly linked with the radio jets, though how the disk and jet are coupled is not revealed by present correlation analysis. Moreover, we find a significant correlation between the bulk kinetic power and radio extended luminosity. This implies that the emission from the radio lobes are closely related with the energy flux transported through jets from the central part of AGNs.

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