16–20 Sept 2019
Torino - Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Radio bimodality of Swift/BAT AGNs and SDSS quasars

16 Sept 2019, 15:00
20m
Aula Darwin (Torino - Italy)

Aula Darwin

Torino - Italy

Via Nizza 52

Speaker

Katarzyna Rusinek (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Polish Academy of Sciences)

Description

Comparison of properties of quasars with those of low redshift AGNs with similar BH masses but accreting at much lower accretion rates provides exceptional opportunity to study the dependence of the properties of these massive accretion systems on the specific accretion rate. This particularly concerns abilities of such systems to produce powerful jets. We present here results of comparison of radio loudness distributions and discuss them in the context of investigated in literature scenarios proposed to explain the radio dichotomy of AGN. Our preliminary results indicate that: (1) there is an explicit bimodality in the radio-loudness distributions in both populations; (2) the radio-loud fraction of AGNs accreting at moderate rates is larger than of quasars. These differences are consistent with predictions of the MAD (magnetically-arrested-disk) scenario for the production of strong jets and favor the model according to which central accumulation of magnetic flux proceeds prior to the AGN/quasar event.

Primary author

Katarzyna Rusinek (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Polish Academy of Sciences)

Co-authors

Marek Sikora (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center) Maitrayee Gupta (Nicolaus Copernicus Astonomical Center)

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