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The Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei and their Spins

  • Authors: M. Volonteri, M. Sikora, J.-P. Lasota, and A. Merloni

Volonteri et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 775 94.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Top: radiative efficiency of AGNs of different luminosities. Diamonds: 10 40 erg s −1 < L bol < 10 44 erg s −1. Asterisks: L bol > 10 44 erg s −1. Bottom: spins of the same AGNs. 30%–40% of low luminosity sources ( L bol ~ 10 40 erg s −1) are genuinely inefficient accretors. Sources with L bol > 10 44 erg s −1 are powered by efficient accretors and spin solely determines their radiative efficiency.

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