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The fundamental plane of black hole accretion and its use as a black hole-mass estimator

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf6b9
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  1. National Research Council Canada. Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics
FormatText, Article
Subjectaccretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies: active; galaxies: jets; galaxies: nuclei
Abstract
We present an analysis of the fundamental plane of black hole accretion, an empirical correlation of the mass of a black hole (M), its 5 GHz radio continuum luminosity (νLν), and its 2–10 keV X-ray power-law continuum luminosity (LX). We compile a sample of black holes with primary, direct black hole-mass measurements that also have sensitive, high-spatial-resolution radio and X-ray data.
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  • The Astrophysical Journal 871, no. 1, 80 (23 January 2019).
LanguageEnglish
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