2002
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020817
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NGC 4258: A jet-dominated low-luminosity AGN?

Abstract: Abstract. Low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) are a very important class of sources since they occupy a significant fraction of local galaxies. Their spectra differ significantly from the canonical luminous AGNs, most notably by the absence of the "big blue bump". In the present paper, taking a typical LLAGN-NGC 4258-as an example, we investigate the origin of their spectral emission. The observational data of NGC 4258 is extremely abundant, including water maser emission, putting very strict constraints to its theor… Show more

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“…The large-scale radio and Hα features of NGC 4258 could only be interpreted as jets (Falcke & Biermann 1999;Yuan et al 2002) after the accretion disk around a super-massive central object had been discovered from observations of water-maser emission (Claussen et al 1984;Henkel et al 1984). Previously they were called "anomalous arms" and explained in terms of ejected matter that interacts strongly with the disk gas and hence is compressed (van der Kruit et al 1972) or as jet-like outflows (Sanders et al 1982).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The large-scale radio and Hα features of NGC 4258 could only be interpreted as jets (Falcke & Biermann 1999;Yuan et al 2002) after the accretion disk around a super-massive central object had been discovered from observations of water-maser emission (Claussen et al 1984;Henkel et al 1984). Previously they were called "anomalous arms" and explained in terms of ejected matter that interacts strongly with the disk gas and hence is compressed (van der Kruit et al 1972) or as jet-like outflows (Sanders et al 1982).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We here consider one commonly invoked model in which a standard thin, optically thick disk (SD) (Shakura & Sunyaev 1973) exists down to some transition radius r tr , at which point the flow becomes hotter, optically thin and relatively non-radiative (e.g., Esin et al 1997). This type of non-radiative inner disk has also been invoked for lowluminosity AGN such as NGC 4258 (Yuan et al 2002). The thermal bump -seen in several of the GX 339−4 data sets in the optical band -is assumed to originate in the disk, which also provides seed photons for jet IC as mentioned above.…”
Section: Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The RIAF itself efficiently produces radio emission while simultaneously lacking the optical-ultraviolet thermal emission from the standard accretion disk, which acts to boost R (Rees et al 1982;Quataert et al 1999;Ho et al 2000;Ho 2002). At the same time, it has been shown in many cases that a RIAF alone cannot account for all of the observed radio emission, suggesting that an additional radio-emitting component, most likely associated with a jet, is required (Yi & Boughn 1999;Ulvestad & Ho 2001b;Yuan et al 2002;Anderson et al 2004;Falcke et al 2004). On the opposite extreme, NLS1s, probably high-L bol /L Edd systems as discussed above, are systematically radio-quiet (although radio-loud quasars are exceptions; see below).…”
Section: Physical Interpretationmentioning
confidence: 99%