The Influence of Black Hole Mass and Accretion Rate on the FRI/FRII Radio Galaxy Dichotomy

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2004-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409144v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 1 figure. Contribution to the proceedings of the conference "Growing Black Holes", Garching, Germany, June 21-24, 200

Scientific paper

10.1007/11403913_76

We use medium resolution optical spectra of 3CR radio galaxies to estimate their black hole masses and accretion rates. Black hole masses are found from central stellar velocity dispersions and accretion rates are derived from narrow emission-line luminosities. The sample covers both Fanaroff-Riley (FR) classes; the more powerful FRIIs and the less powerful FRIs. We find that FRIs and FRIIs separate in diagrams of black hole mass versus radio luminosity and narrow-line luminosity. This suggests that, at a given black hole mass, the FRIIs accrete more efficiently, or accrete more matter, than FRIs.

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