Astrophysics and Space Science From X-Ray Binaries to Quasars: Black

This volume brings together contributions from many of the world's leading authorities on black hole accretion. The papers within represent part of a new movement to make use of the relative advantages of studying stellar mass and supermassive black holes

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FROM X-RAY BINARIES TO QUASARS: BLACK HOLES ON ALL MASS SCALES

Edited by: T.J. MACCARONE, R.P. FENDER and L.C. HO

Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space Science Volume 300, Nos. 1–3, 2005

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available

ISBN 1-4020-4084-9

2003055495 Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved c Springer 2005  No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. Printed in the Netherlands

TABLE OF CONTENTS

R. FENDER, T. BELLONI and E. GALLO / A Unified Model for Black Hole X-Ray Binary Jets?

1–13

S. HEINZ, A. MERLONI, T. DI MATTEO and R. SUNYAEV / On the Relationship Between the Jets from X-Ray Binaries and AGN

15–21

A. CELOTTI / A Transition in the Accretion Properties of AGN

23–30

J. MALZAC, A. MERLONI and A.C. FABIAN / Jet-Disc Coupling in the Accreting Black Hole XTE J1118+480

31–38

A.P. MARSCHER / Are 3C 120 and Other Active Galactic Nuclei Overweight Microquasars?

39–44

A. MERLONI, S. HEINZ and T. DI MATTEO / A Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Activity: Pushing Forward the Unification Scheme

45–53

D.L. MEIER / Magnetically Dominated Accretion Flows (MDAFS) and Jet Production in the Lowhard State

55–65

J.C. LEE / Black Hole Systems Seen at High Spectral Resolution: Inflow and Outflow

67–70

C.S. REYNOLDS, L.W. BRENNEMAN and D. GAROFALO / Black Hole Spin in AGN and GBHCs

71–79

R.L.C. STARLING, M.J. PAGE, G. BRANDUARDI-RAYMONT, A.A. BREEVELD, R. SORIA and K. WU / The Seyfert-Liner Galaxy NGC 7213: An XMM-Newton Observation

81–86

K. BECKWITH and C. DONE / Observational Effects of Strong Gravity

87–96

A.C. FABIAN / Broad Iron Lines in AGN and X-Ray Binaries J. HOMAN and T. BELLONI / The Evolution of Black Hole States S. VAUGHAN, A.C. FABIAN and K. IWASAWA / Rapid X-Ray Variability of Seyfert 1 Galaxies ´ M.A. ABRAMOWICZ and W. KLUZNIAK / Epicyclic Frequencies Derived from the Effective Potential: Simple and Practical Formulae K.M. LEIGHLY / X-Ray Periodicity in AGN ´ W. KLUZNIAK and M.A. ABRAMOWICZ / Resonant Oscillations of Accretion Flow and kHz QPOS M. VAN DER KLIS / Comparing Black Hole and Neutron Star Variability M. NOWAK / X-Ray and Radio Monitoring of GX 339-4 and CYG X-1 ´ C. DONE and M. GIERLINSKI / Accretion in Strong Gravity: From Galactic to Supermassive Black Holes

97–105 107–117 119–125 127–136 137–142 143–148 149–157 159–166 167–175

R. NARAYAN / Low-Luminosity Accretion in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei

177–188

S. MARKOFF / Exploring the Jet/Accretion Flow Relationship in Low Disk Luminosity Sources

189–195

S. MIGLIARI and R. FENDER / What Can We Learn from Neutron Star X-Ray Binaries’ Jets? ¨ E. KORDING and H. FALCKE / A Unifying Scheme for Low-Luminosity XRBs and AGN

197–209 211–217

L.C. HO / “Low-State” Black