Revisiting the Fundamental Planes of Black Hole Activity for Strong Jet Sources

Abstract

Whether the X-ray emissions of strong jet sources originate from disk+coronas or jets is still controversial. In this work, we constructed a strong jet sample containing 50 flat-spectrum radio quasars, 51 low-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac objects and 18 intermediate-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac objects to explore the origin of X-ray emissions. Generally, blazars are the typical radio-loud active galactic nucleus with a powerful jet toward the observer, causing their broadband emissions to be boosted. By considering the Doppler boosting effect, we obtain the intrinsic radio--X-ray correlation and the fundamental plane (FP) of black hole activity for the strong jet sources: the intrinsic radio--X-ray correlation is $L_{\mathrm{R},\mathrm{int}}\propto L_{\mathrm{X},\mathrm{int}}^{1.04}$, which favor the jet-dominated mode, the intrinsic FP is $\log L_{\mathrm{R},\mathrm{int}}=(1.07\pm 0.06)\log L_{\mathrm{X},\mathrm{int}}-(0.22\pm 0.10)\log M_{\mathrm{BH}}-(3.77\pm 2.11)$, which can be interpreted by the hybrid mode of jet+standard disk. Our results suggest that the X-ray emissions of strong jet sources are dominated by the jets, but there may also be a small contribution from the disk. In addition, the radio--X-ray correlation and FP of strong jet sources do not have a significant dependence on the Eddington-ratio.