The relation between accretion rate and jet power in X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies
The relation between accretion rate and jet power in X-ray luminous elliptical galaxies
Using Chandra X-ray observations of 9 nearby, X-ray luminous ellipticals with good optical velocity dispersion measurements, we show that a tight correlation exists between the Bondi accretion rates calculated from the X-ray data and estimated black hole masses, and the power emerging from these systems in relativistic jets. The jet …