A scheme to unify low-power accreting black holes

• DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031683
• Publication Date: 2004-01-27T14:34:20Z
• Authors: H. Falcke; E. Körding; S. Markoff
• Keywords: Black hole (networking); Eddington luminosity; Astrophysical jet

We explore the evolution in power of black holes all masses, and their associated jets, within scheme an accretion rate-dependent state transition. Below a critical value rate systems are assumed to undergo transition where dominant mode is optically thin radiatively inefficient. In these significantly sub-Eddington systems, spectral energy distribution predicted be dominated by non-thermal emission from relativistic jet whereas near-Eddington will instead disk. Reasonable candidates for such include X-ray binaries hard quiescent states, Galactic Center (Sgr A*), LINERs, FR I radio galaxies, large fraction BL Lac objects. Standard physics predicts non-linear scaling between thick (radio) (optical or X-ray) which has been confirmed recently binaries. show that this relation also function hole mass only slightly Doppler factor. Taking into account we indeed binaries, Lacs can unified fall on common radio/X-ray correlation. This suggests domination important stage luminosity accreting systems.