A Universal Scaling for the Energetics of Relativistic Jets From Black Hole Systems

Abstract

Black holes generate collimated, relativistic jets which have been observed in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), microquasars, and at the center of some galaxies (active galactic nuclei; AGN). How jet physics scales from stellar black holes in GRBs to the supermassive ones in AGNs is still unknown. Here we show that jets produced by AGNs and GRBs exhibit the same correlation between the kinetic power carried by accelerated particles and the gamma-ray luminosity, with AGNs and GRBs lying at the low and high-luminosity ends, respectively, of the correlation. This result implies that the efficiency of energy dissipation in jets produced in black hole systems is similar over 10 orders of magnitude in jet power, establishing a physical analogy between AGN and GRBs.

Published in Science, 338, 1445 (2012), DOI: 10.1126/science.1227416. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. Corrected typo in equation 4 of the supplementary material

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