The Correlations of Jet Power with Black Hole Mass and Spin in Radio Loud Quasars

Abstract

The formation of jets is closely related with the black hole mass and black hole spin, to study the correlations of jet power with the black hole mass and black hole spin is of significant importance for understanding the jet formation and structure. We have collected 65 radio loud quasars from the literature. The sample includes 35 Steep Spectrum Radio Quasars (SSRQs) and 30 Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) with the redshifts ranging from about zero to two. We present here the correlation analysis of jet power with the black hole mass and back hole spin based on the sample data. Our conclusions are as follows: (1) The black hole mass has a strong correlation with the jet power; (2) The black hole spin is also strongly correlated with the jet power, especially for the magnetic field strength B = BEDD, where BEDD is the Eddington magnetic field strength, and the correlation coefficient is higher than that between black hole mass and jet power; (3) There are certain differences between the distributions of spin data of SSRQs and FSRQs; (4) This study has further confirmed that the jet energy is related not only with the black hole mass, but also with the spin energy of the black hole. The formation of black hole jet may be very possibly resulted by the joint effect of black hole mass and black hole spin. These results are consistent with the previous results obtained by other methods.