Comparison of SEDs of very massive radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN
Abstract
The main objective of this work is to establish and interpret the dominant spectral components and their differences in radio-loud (RL) and radio-quiet (RQ) AGN with very massive black holes, and accreting at moderate rates. Such a sample is selected from the Swift/BAT catalogue of AGN having determined optical spectra types and hosting black holes with masses > 10^{8.5} M_{⊙ }. We confirm our previous results, that radio loudness distribution of Swift/BAT AGN is bimodal and that radio galaxies are about two times X-ray louder than their RQ counterparts. We show that the average X-ray loudness (defined as a ratio of luminosity in the 14-195 keV band to that at 12 μm) of Type 1 and Type 2 AGN is very similar. This similarity holds for both RL and RQ subsamples and indicates negligible dependence of the observed X-ray luminosities on the inclination angle in both populations. In both the radiative output is dominated by mid-IR and hard X-ray components, and relatively weak UV luminosities indicate large amounts of dust in polar regions.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- February 2020
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.04684
- Bibcode:
- 2020MNRAS.492..315G
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion discs;
- radiation mechanisms: non-thermal;
- radiation mechanisms: thermal;
- galaxies: active;
- galaxies: jets;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Submitted to MNRAS, 11 pages, 14 figures, Comments are welcome