Unifying Black Hole Jets: The Connection between Blazars and Gamma-ray Bursts
Abstract
The central engines of radio-loud AGNs and gamma-ray bursts share the same basic astrophysical ingredients, despite the vastly different black hole masses and mass accretion rates. We present evidence for a connection between some of the observed high-energy properties of jets in blazars and GRBs observed with different telescopes including Fermi, Swift and others. These results point towards an unification of the physics of relativistic jets across a vast range of black hole masses and accretion timescales.
- Publication:
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AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division #12
- Pub Date:
- September 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011HEAD...12.0712N