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The correlation between the total jet power and the Poynting flux at the jet base

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2020

Elena E. Nokhrina*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Research of Relativistic Objects of the Universe, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyy, Institutsky per. 9, 141700, Russia email: nokhrina@phystech.edu
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Abstract

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The magneto hydrodynamic models of relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei predict the jet power transported by the Poynting flux at the jet base, setting the correlation between the jet power and the total magnetic flux. For highly collimated jets taking the transversal structure into account allows to rewrite this correlation through the observed jet properties such as spectral flux and core shift. Applying this method we find that, for the sample of 48 sources, their jet power distribution is well peaked at the theoretically predicted level.

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© International Astronomical Union 2020

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