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On the Difference Between Radio Quiet and Radio Loud AGN

1996/09/04 by P. Marziani, M. Calvani, Marziani, P. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9609032

2 pages, to appear in Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows, Proceedings of the IAU Symp. # 163

arxiv created 1996/09/04 · openalex publication_date 1996/09/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

A systematic difference in alignment between the central black hole spin and the angular momentum of the accreting gas may help explain several differences found in the optical and UV HST spectra of radio loud and radio quiet AGN.

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