The mm-wave compact component of an AGN
The mm-wave compact component of an AGN
mm-wave emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may hold the key to understanding the physical origin of their radio cores. The correlation between radio/mm and X-ray luminosity may suggest a similar physical origin of the two sources. Since synchrotron self-absorption decreases with frequency, mm-waves probe smaller length-scales than cm-waves. We report on 100 GHz (3 mm) observations with the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy of 26AGNs selected from the hardX-ray Swift/Burst Alert Telescope survey. 20/26 targets were detected at 100 GHz down to the 1 mJy (3σ) sensitivity, which corresponds to optically thick synchrotron source sizes of 10-4-10-3 pc. Most sources show a 100 GHz flux excess with respect to the spectral slope extrapolated from low frequencies. This mm spectral component likely originates from smaller scales than the few-GHz emission. The measured mm sources lie roughly around the Lmm (100 GHz) ~10-4LX (2-10 keV) relation, similar to a few previously published X-ray selected sources, and hinting perhaps at a common coronal origin.
Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Jets, Galaxies: Nuclei, Radio continuum: Galaxies, X-rays: Galaxies
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Vogel, Stuart
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Mushotzky, Richard F.
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21 July 2018
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Vogel, Stuart
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Baldi, Ranieri D.
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Smith, Krista L.
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Behar, Ehud, Vogel, Stuart, Baldi, Ranieri D., Smith, Krista L. and Mushotzky, Richard F.
(2018)
The mm-wave compact component of an AGN.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478 (1), .
(doi:10.1093/mnras/sty850).
Abstract
mm-wave emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may hold the key to understanding the physical origin of their radio cores. The correlation between radio/mm and X-ray luminosity may suggest a similar physical origin of the two sources. Since synchrotron self-absorption decreases with frequency, mm-waves probe smaller length-scales than cm-waves. We report on 100 GHz (3 mm) observations with the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy of 26AGNs selected from the hardX-ray Swift/Burst Alert Telescope survey. 20/26 targets were detected at 100 GHz down to the 1 mJy (3σ) sensitivity, which corresponds to optically thick synchrotron source sizes of 10-4-10-3 pc. Most sources show a 100 GHz flux excess with respect to the spectral slope extrapolated from low frequencies. This mm spectral component likely originates from smaller scales than the few-GHz emission. The measured mm sources lie roughly around the Lmm (100 GHz) ~10-4LX (2-10 keV) relation, similar to a few previously published X-ray selected sources, and hinting perhaps at a common coronal origin.
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 May 2018
Published date: 21 July 2018
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Author Baldi UOS confirmed Arxiv record 1802.08581 is AM.
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Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Jets, Galaxies: Nuclei, Radio continuum: Galaxies, X-rays: Galaxies
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/422311
ISSN: 1365-2966
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Krista L. Smith
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Richard F. Mushotzky
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