Tuomas Savolainen, Wara Chamani
Published 2025-02-10Version 1
One of the major open questions related to the production of jets by accreting black holes is: why do sources with similar accretion powers produce so vastly different jet powers? What conditions are required to make a powerful jet? If jets are powered by the Blandford-Zjanek mechanism, two further parameters control the jet power besides the black hole mass - black hole spin and the magnetic flux threading it. Since highly spinning black holes without jets appear to exist, the jet production efficiency may depend on whether the black hole managed to accrete high enough magnetic flux in the past. The highest-efficiency jets in this picture are launched from magnetically arrested disks (MADs). Here we discuss a method to test this hypothesis using VLBI core-shift measurements to estimate the jet magnetic flux.
Comments: Published in the Proceedings of the 16th EVN Symposium, Eds. E. Ros, P. Benke, S.A. Dzib, I. Rottmann, & J.A. Zensus, Bonn: Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Radioastronomie, 2024
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