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Titolo: | A Connection between Plasma Conditions near Black Hole Event Horizons and Outflow Properties | Autori: | Koljonen, K. I. I. Russell, D. M. FERNANDEZ ONTIVEROS, Juan Antonio Markoff, Sera Russell, T. D. Miller-Jones, J. C. A. van der Horst, A. J. Bernardini, F. CASELLA, Piergiorgio Curran, P. A. Gandhi, P. Soria, R. |
Data pubblicazione: | 2015 | Rivista: | THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | Numero: | 814 | Fascicolo: | 2 | Da pagina:: | 139 | Abstract: | Accreting black holes are responsible for producing the fastest, most powerful outflows of matter in the universe. The formation process of powerful jets close to black holes is poorly understood, and the conditions leading to jet formation are currently hotly debated. In this paper, we report an unambiguous empirical correlation between the properties of the plasma close to the black hole and the particle acceleration properties within jets launched from the central regions of accreting stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. In these sources the emission of the plasma near the black hole is characterized by a power law at X-ray energies during times when the jets are produced. We find that the photon index of this power law, which gives information on the underlying particle distribution, correlates with the characteristic break frequency in the jet spectrum, which is dependent on magnetohydrodynamical processes in the outflow. The observed range in break frequencies varies by five orders of magnitude in sources that span nine orders of magnitude in black hole mass, revealing a similarity of jet properties over a large range of black hole masses powering these jets. This correlation demonstrates that the internal properties of the jet rely most critically on the conditions of the plasma close to the black hole, rather than other parameters such as the black hole mass or spin, and will provide a benchmark that should be reproduced by the jet formation models. | Acknowledgments: | This research has made use of data obtained from the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight center. S.M. is grateful to the University of Texas in Austin for its support through a Tinsley Centennial Visiting Professorship. P.A.C. acknowledges support from Australian Research Council grant DP120102393. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30175 | URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/139 | ISSN: | 0004-637X | DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/814/2/139 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015ApJ...814..139K | Fulltext: | open |
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