AGN Coronae Through A Jet Perspective

TL;DR

This study investigates the properties of AGN coronae and jets using high-quality X-ray and radio data, revealing correlations between luminosities, reflection fractions, and corona-jet dynamics, supporting an outflowing corona model.

Contribution

It introduces a model where the AGN corona is outflowing and propagates into the jet, with observational evidence supporting mildly relativistic velocities.

Findings

Radio Eddington luminosity inversely correlates with X-ray reflection fraction.

Corona is outflowing with mildly relativistic speeds (0.04<β<0.40).

The outflowing corona model fits the observational data well.

Abstract

This paper presents an in depth look at the jet and coronal properties of 41 AGN. Utilizing the highest quality NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and NVSS 1.4 GHz data, we find that the radio Eddington luminosity inversely scales with X-ray reflection fraction, and positively scales with the distance between the corona and the reflected regions in the disk. We next investigate a model that predicts the corona is outflowing and propagates into the large scale jet. We find this model describes the data well and predicts the corona has mildly relativistic velocities, 0.04<\beta<0.40. We discuss our results in the context of disk-jet connections in AGN