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Fitting along the Fundamental Plane: New comparisons of jet physics across the black hole mass scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2011

Sera Markoff ,
Michael A. Nowak ,
Dipankar Maitra ,
Jörn Wilms ,
Elena Gallo ,
Robert Hynes  and
Richard Plotkin
Sera Markoff
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek”, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands email: s.b.markoff@uva.nl, r.m.plotkin@uva.nl
Michael A. Nowak
Affiliation:
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA email: mnowak@space.mit.edu
Dipankar Maitra
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA email: dmaitra@umich.edu, egallo@umich.edu
Jörn Wilms
Affiliation:
Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory & ECAP, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Bamberg, Germany email: joern.wilms@sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de
Elena Gallo
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA email: dmaitra@umich.edu, egallo@umich.edu
Robert Hynes
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 email: rih@theory.phys.lsu.edu
Richard Plotkin
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek”, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands email: s.b.markoff@uva.nl, r.m.plotkin@uva.nl
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Abstract

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Correlations between the radio and X-ray bands in the hard state of black hole X-ray binaries (BHBs) have led to the discovery of the Fundamental Plane of black hole accretion, linking accretion-driven radiative attributes to black hole mass. Although this discovery has led to new constraints on radiative efficiencies, there is still significant degeneracy in terms of understanding the governing physics. I present several new results exploring the processes driving the Fundamental Plane over the black hole mass range. These include the first ever homogeneous fits of sources at approximately the same Eddington luminosity but millions of times different in mass, which I focus on for this proceeding article.

Keywords

black hole physicsX-rays: binariesgalaxies: jetsaccretion, accretion disksradiation mechanisms: nonthermal
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S275: Jets at all Scales , September 2010 , pp. 250 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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