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The scale invariance model (Heinz, S. and Sunyaev, R.A.: 2003, MNRAS 343, L59 can be used to derive robust scaling relations between the radio luminosity from accreting black holes and the black hole mass and accretion rate. These relations agree well with the recently found “fundamental plane” of black hole activity (Merloni, A., Heinz, S. and Di Matteo, T.: 2003, MNRAS 345, 1057). This relation provides a new, powerful tool for the comparison of jets from black holes of different masses and accretion rates. The regression coefficients of this relation contain information about the nature of the X-ray emission mechanism driving the correlation. We argue that X-ray synchrotron emission from the base of the jets is unlikely to be the dominant contribution to the X-ray spectrum in most of the sources.
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Heinz, S., Merloni, A., Di Matteo, T., Sunyaev, R. (2005). On the relationship between the jets from X-ray binaries and AGN. In: Maccarone, T.J., Fender, R.P., Ho, L.C. (eds) Astrophysics and Space Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4085-7_2
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