The kinetic power of jets magnetically accelerated from advection dominated accretion flows in radio galaxies

Details The kinetic power of jets magnetically accelerated from advection dominated accretion flows in radio galaxies The kinetic power of jets magnetically accelerated from advection dominated accretion flows in radio galaxies

2010-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/1003.4574v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MN Letters

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There is a significant nonlinear correlation between the Eddington ratio (L_bol=L_Edd) and the Eddington-scaled kinetic power (L_kin=L_Edd) of jets in low luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) (Merloni & Heinz). It is believed that these low luminosity AGNs contain advection dominated accretion flows (ADAFs). We adopt the ADAF model developed by Li & Cao, in which the global dynamics of ADAFs with magnetically driven outflows is derived numerically, to explore the relation between bolometric luminosity and kinetic power of jets. We find that the observed relation, L_kin/L_Edd ~ (L_bol=L_Edd)^0.49, can be well reproduced by the model calculations with reasonable parameters for ADAFs with magnetically driven outflows. Our model calculations is always consistent with the slope of the correlation independent of the values of the parameters adopted. Compared with the observations, our results show that over 60% of the accreted gas at the outer radius escapes from the accretion disc in a wind before the gas falls into the black holes. The observed correlation between Eddington-scaled kinetic power and Bondi power can also be qualitatively reproduced by our model calculations. Our results show that the mechanical efficiency varies from 10^-2 ~ 10^-3, which is roughly consistent with that required in AGN feedback simulations.

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