Published November 29, 2019 | Version v1

Predicting the emission profile and estimation of model parameters for some nearby LLAGN using accretion and jet models

  • 1. Universidad de Concepcion
  • 2. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
  • 3. Universidad de Valparaiso

Description

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides a unique opportunity to probe the physics of supermassive black holes through Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), such as the existence of the event horizon, the accretion processes as well as jet formation in Low Luminosity AGN (LLAGN). We build a theoretical model which includes an Advection Dominated Accretion Flow (ADAF) and a simple radio jet outflow. The predicted spectral energy distribution (SED) of this model can be compared to observations to get the best estimates of the model parameters. The
model-predicted radial emission profiles at different frequency bands can be used to predict whether the inflow can be resolved by the EHT or other telescopes. We have applied this method to some nearby LLAGN such as M84, NGC 4594, NGC 4278 and NGC 3998. We also estimate the model parameters for each of them using high resolution data from different surveys.

Notes

We acknowledge the following funding sources: CONICYT Programa de Astronom\'ia Fondo ALMA-Conicyt 2016 31160001, the Conicyt PIA ACT172033 as well as the BASAL Centro de Astrof\'isica y Tecnolog\'ias Afines (CATA) AFB-170002. BB thanks funding via Fondecyt Postdoctorado (project code 3190366). FGX is supported in part by the National Program on Key R\&D Project of China (Grants 2016YFA0400804), the NSFC (grant 11873074), and the YIPA program of CAS (id. 2016243). NMN also acknowledges support from Conicyt through Fondecyt 1171506.

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