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Title: BAT AGN spectroscopic survey - XV: the high frequency radio cores of ultra-hard X-ray selected AGN

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  3. Eureka Scientific Inc., Oakland, CA (United States)
  4. Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv (Israel)
  5. Pontificia Univ. Católica de Chile (Chile); Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
  6. Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, WA (Australia)
  7. Millennium Inst. of Astrophysics (MAS), Santiago (Chile); Space Science Inst., Boulder, CO (United States); Pontificia Univ. Católica de Chile (Chile); Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
  8. Pontificia Univ. Católica de Chile (Chile)
  9. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
  10. Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
  11. California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
  12. European Southern Observatory (Chile)
  13. Kyoto Univ. (Japan). Dept. of Astronomy; Korea Astronomy and Space Science Inst. (Republic of Korea)
  14. Yonsei Univ., Seoul (Republic of Korea). Dept. of Astronomy

We have conducted 22 GHz radio imaging at 1 arcsec resolution of 100 low-redshift AGN selected at 14–195 keV by the Swift-BAT. We find a radio core detection fraction of 96 percent, much higher than lower frequency radio surveys. Of the 96 radio-detected AGN, 55 have compact morphologies, 30 have morphologies consistent with nuclear star formation, and 11 have sub-kpc to kpc-scale jets. We find that the total radio power does not distinguish between nuclear star formation and jets as the origin of the radio emission. For 87 objects, we use optical spectroscopy to test whether AGN physical parameters are distinct between radio morphological types. We find that X-ray luminosities tend to be higher if the 22 GHz morphology is jet-like, but find no significant difference in other physical parameters. We find that the relationship between the X-ray and core radio luminosities is consistent with the LR/LX ~ 10-5 of coronally active stars. We further find that the canonical fundamental planes of black hole activity systematically overpredict our radio luminosities, particularly for objects with star formation morphologies.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1608580
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 492; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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