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The Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Accretion and Its Use as a Black Hole-Mass Estimator

  • Authors: Kayhan Gültekin, Ashley L. King, Edward M. Cackett, Kristina Nyland, Jon M. Miller, Tiziana Di Matteo, Sera Markoff, and Michael P. Rupen

2019 The Astrophysical Journal 871 80.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Probability density of the logarithmic ratio of radio to X-ray luminosity. We plot multiple realizations of our sample using statistical uncertainties of radio flux and X-ray flux. As in the rest of this paper, radio “luminosity” is defined as LR ≡ νLν for ν = 5 GHz, whereas the X-ray luminosity is a true 2–10 keV bandpass luminosity. The uncertainty in the radio luminosity also incorporates our estimate of systematic uncertainty in converting from other frequencies to 5 GHz. The nearly 8 orders of magnitude probed by our sample is illustrated in this figure as is the larger fractional uncertainties in the AGNs.

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