A Universal Scaling for the Energetics of Relativistic Jets from Black Hole Systems

Nemmen, R. S.; Georganopoulos, M.; Guiriec, S.; Meyer, E. T.; Gehrels, N.; Sambruna, R. M.

A Universal Scaling for the Energetics of Relativistic Jets from Black Hole Systems

dc.contributor.author	Nemmen, R. S.
dc.contributor.author	Georganopoulos, M.
dc.contributor.author	Guiriec, S.
dc.contributor.author	Meyer, E. T.
dc.contributor.author	Gehrels, N.
dc.contributor.author	Sambruna, R. M.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-08-24T17:01:15Z
dc.date.available	2020-08-24T17:01:15Z
dc.date.issued	2012-12-14
dc.description.abstract	Black holes generate collimated, relativistic jets, which have been observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), microquasars, and at the center of some galaxies [active galactic nuclei (AGN)]. How jet physics scales from stellar black holes in GRBs to the supermassive ones in AGN is still unknown. Here, we show that jets produced by AGN and GRBs exhibit the same correlation between the kinetic power carried by accelerated particles and the gamma-ray luminosity, with AGN and GRBs lying at the low- and high-luminosity ends, respectively, of the correlation. This result implies that the efficiency of energy dissipation in jets produced in black hole systems is similar over 10 orders of magnitude in jet power, establishing a physical analogy between AGN and GRBs.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	We thank J. Racusin, M. Lister, C. Dermer, A. Pushkarev, J. McEnery, D. Donato, D. Kazanas, T. Nelson, and F. Tombesi for crucial discussions. R.S.N. and S.G. were supported by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities through a contract with NASA. This research has made use of: (i) StatCodes statistical software hosted by The Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Astrostatistics; (ii) data obtained from the HETE science team via the Web site http://space.mit.edu/HETE/Bursts/Data (HETE is an international mission of the NASA Explorer program, run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology); and (iii) NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA.	en_US
dc.description.uri	https://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6113/1445	en_US
dc.format.extent	5 pages	en_US
dc.genre	journal articles	en_US
dc.identifier	doi:10.13016/m2q0y7-prky
dc.identifier.citation	R. S. Nemmen et al., A Universal Scaling for the Energetics of Relativistic Jets from Black Hole Systems, Science, Vol. 338, Issue 6113, pp. 1445-1448 DOI: 10.1126/science.1227416	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	10.1126/science.1227416
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19497
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartof	UMBC Physics Department Collection
dc.relation.ispartof	UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET)
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dc.title	A Universal Scaling for the Energetics of Relativistic Jets from Black Hole Systems	en_US
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