TY - JOUR
T1 - Accretion properties of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei
AU - Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh
AU - Chan, Chi Kwan
AU - Nagar, Neil
N1 - Funding Information:
V.R. appreciates the organizers of the conference and thanks them for allowing to present this study as an oral contribution. V.R. acknowledges the support from the FONDECYT postdoctoral grant No. 3190878. C.‐K.C. acknowledges the support from the NSF PIRE grant 1743747. N.N. acknowledges financial support from Millenium Nucleus NCN19‐058 (TITANs).
Funding Information:
information FONDECYT, 3190878; NSF-PIRE, 1743747; Millenium Nucleus, NCN19-058V.R. appreciates the organizers of the conference and thanks them for allowing to present this study as an oral contribution. V.R. acknowledges the support from the FONDECYT postdoctoral grant No. 3190878. C.-K.C. acknowledges the support from the NSF PIRE grant 1743747. N.N. acknowledges financial support from Millenium Nucleus NCN19-058 (TITANs).
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PY - 2021/11/1
Y1 - 2021/11/1
N2 - We aim to leverage the transformational science enabled by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to study the physics of, and near, the black holes in a sample of galaxies covering a large parameter space in supermassive black hole mass, accretion rate, and jet power. To this end, we work on a sample of nearby galaxies whose directly measured black hole masses and distances imply that 40 micro-arcsec EHT observations will resolve the central engine at <100 Schwarzschild radius resolution. To complement the near-future EHT observations, we attempt to constrain the accretion properties of nearby active galactic nuclei by modeling the broadband spectral energy distribution using a general relativistic Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. These results will provide apriori information that is vital for an accurate ray-tracing of EHT millimeter maps of accretion flows in the future.
AB - We aim to leverage the transformational science enabled by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) to study the physics of, and near, the black holes in a sample of galaxies covering a large parameter space in supermassive black hole mass, accretion rate, and jet power. To this end, we work on a sample of nearby galaxies whose directly measured black hole masses and distances imply that 40 micro-arcsec EHT observations will resolve the central engine at <100 Schwarzschild radius resolution. To complement the near-future EHT observations, we attempt to constrain the accretion properties of nearby active galactic nuclei by modeling the broadband spectral energy distribution using a general relativistic Monte Carlo radiative transfer code. These results will provide apriori information that is vital for an accurate ray-tracing of EHT millimeter maps of accretion flows in the future.
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U2 - 10.1002/asna.20210062
DO - 10.1002/asna.20210062
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118469296
SN - 0004-6337
VL - 342
SP - 1180
EP - 1184
JO - Astronomische Nachrichten
JF - Astronomische Nachrichten
IS - 9-10
ER -