Black hole mass, jet, and accretion disk connection: An analysis of radio‐loud and radio‐quiet quasars

Abstract

AbstractSurveys have shown radio‐loud (RL) quasars constitute 10–15% of the total quasar population. However, it is unknown if the radio‐loud fraction (RL quasars/Total quasars) remains consistent among different parameter spaces. This study shows that radio‐loud fraction increases for increasing full width half maximum (FWHM) velocity of the Hβ and MgII broad emission line. Our data have been obtained from Shen, Y., Richards, G. T., Strauss, M. A. et al., ApJS, 194(2), 45, 2011 catalogue. To investigate the reason, in this preliminary study we analyze various properties like bolometric luminosity, optical continuum luminosity, black hole (BH) mass, and accretion rate of RL quasars and RQ quasars sample which have FWHM greater than 15,000 km s−1 (High broad line). From the distributions, we can conclude for all the properties in high broad line, RL quasars are having higher values than RQ quasars. We have predicted RL quasars are intrinsically brighter than RQ quasars and also predicted BH mass‐jet connection and accretion disk‐jet connection from our results but to conclude anything more analysis is needed.