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J/A+A/298/375                       Jet-disk symbiosis II         (Falcke+ 1995)
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The jet-disk symbiosis II. Interpreting the Radio/UV correlations in quasars
       Falcke H., Malkan M.A., Biermann P.L.
      <Astron. Astrophys. 298, 375 (1995)>
      =1995A&A...298..375F      (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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ADC_Keywords: QSOs; Galaxies, radio
Keywords: galaxies: active - galaxies: jets - galaxies: nuclei - accretion disks

Description:
   We investigate the correlation between the accretion disk (UV) luminosity and
   the radio core emission of a quasar sample, containing all PG quasars, also
   deriving empirical conversion factors from emission line luminosities to disk
   luminosities. This method allows us to investigate the radio properties of
   AGN on the absolute scale set by the accretion power.
   The tables contain the quasar (and radio galaxy) sample discussed in this
   paper (including the complete PG quasars sample) and give the derived
   `disk luminosities' of the UV-bump and 5GHz radio luminosities.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1             89      131   The quasar sample used in this paper
table2             51       39   The FR II sample used in this paper
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   2-  4  I3     ---     Quasar       [1-131]+ Quasar ID number (1)
   6- 26  A21    ---     Name         Quasar IAU name
  28- 32  F5.3   ---     z            Redshift
  34- 38  A5     ---     Class        Class (2)
  43- 46  F4.1 [10-7W]   log(Ldisk)   Logarithm of average disk luminosity
  48- 51  F4.1 [10-7W]   log(LdiskUV) []? Logarithm of disk luminosity derived
                                      from UV-bump fits
  53- 56  F4.1 [10-7W]   log(LdiskMb) []? Logarithm of disk luminosity derived
                                      from absolute blue magnitude
  58- 61  F4.1 [10-7W]   log(LdiskMv) []? Logarithm of disk luminosity derived
                                      from absolute magnitude of the continuum
                                      at 5500 A
  64- 67  F4.1 [10-7W]   log(LdiskeL) []? Logarithm of disk luminosity derived
                                      from emission lines seen in the optical
                                      spectrum
      69  A1     ---  l_log(nu*L_nu_) Limit flag on radio luminosity
  70- 73  F4.1 [10-7W]  log(nu*L_nu_) Logarithm of Radio luminosity of the core
                                      at 5GHz rest frame
      77  A1     ---   l_f(c)         Limit flag on ratio f(c)
  78- 82  F5.1   %       f(c)         Radio of core flux to total flux at 5GHz
                                      rest frame
  84- 89  F6.3   ---     alpha        Differential spectral index of fitted
                                      spectrum at 5GHz rest frame
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Note (1): (n.1-n.87) is the PG sample with z<0.5
          (n.88-n.113) is the rest of the PG sample
          (n.114-n.131) are quasars from Sun and Malkan 1989.
          An asterisk '*' marks quasars with new accretion disk fits and
          a dagger '+' marks the two quasars with strong variations between
          Mb and the UV
Note (2): Q radio weak
          L radio loud
          S steep spectrum (alpha=<-0.5)
          F flat spectrum (alpha>-0.5)
          V variable spectrum
          P point source
          E extended emission
          D (double) lobe structure
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   2-  4  I3     ---     Quasar        [132-170]+ Quasar ID number
   6- 21  A16    ---     Name          Quasar IAU name
  23- 27  F5.3   ---     z             Redshift
  29- 32  F4.1   10-7W   Ldisk         Logarithm of the disk luminosity derived
                                       by multiplying the lobe power calculated
                                       by Rawlings and Saunders (1991)
      34  A1     ---   l_log(nu*L_nu_) Limit flag on radio luminosity
  35- 38  F4.1   10-7W   log(nu*L_nu_) Logarithm of radio luminosity of the
                                       core at 5GHz rest frame
      40  A1     ---   l_f(c)          Limit flag on ratio f(c)
  41- 45  F5.2   %       f(c)          Radio of core flux to total flux at 5GHz
                                       rest frame
  47- 51  F5.2   ---     alpha         Differential spectral index of fitted
                                       spectrum at 5GHz rest frame
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References:
   Rawlings S. and Saunders R. 1991 Nature, 349, 138
   Sun W.H. and Malkan M.A. 1989 ApJ, 346, 68
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(End)                                          Simona Mei [CDS]   29-May-1995

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