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Radio-loud and Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei

Author(s) -

Chun Xu,

Mario Livio,

Stefi A. Baum

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

the astronomical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3881

pISSN - 0004-6256

DOI - 10.1086/301007

Subject(s) - active galactic nucleus , quiet , physics , luminosity , astrophysics , collimated light , line (geometry) , astronomy , galaxy , optics , mathematics , laser , geometry

We generated a sample of 409 AGNs for which both the radio luminosity at 5GHz and the line luminosity in [OIII] 5007 have been measured. The radioluminosity spans a range of ten orders of magnitude, and the [OIII] lineluminosity spans a range of eight orders of magnitude --- both considerablylarger than the ranges in previous studies. We show that these two quantitiesare correlated in a similar way for both radio-loud and radio-quiet AGNs. Wedemonstrate that the observed correlation can be explained in terms of a modelin which jets are accelerated and collimated by a vertical magnetic field.Comment: 45 pages inc. 7 figures, 1 table of 15 pages in ps-format. Accept to AJ September 199

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