It is believed that the gas accretion onto the supermassive black holes
(SMBHs) is the main process of powering its luminous emission, which occurs in
optical, UV and X-ray regimes and less frequently in radio waves. The
observational fact that only a few percent of quasars are radio-loud is still
an unresolved issue concerning the understanding of the active galactic nucleus
(AGN) population. Here we present a detection of a rapid transition from the
radio-quiet to the radio-loud mode in quasar 013815+00 (z=0.94) which coincides
with changes of its UV-optical continuum and the low ionization MgII broadline.
We interpret this as an enhancement of accretion onto a central black hole of
mass about 10^9 solar masses. As a consequence a new radio-loud AGN was born.
Its spectral and morphological properties indicate that it went through the
short gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) phase at the beginning of its activity
and has now stabilized its flux density at the level of a few mJy. The radio
morphology of 013815+00 is very compact and we predict that with such
short-term jet activity its development will be very slow. The observed
luminosity changes of the accretion disk are shorter than the lifetime of the
new radio phase in 013815+00.
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Caltech-NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS). IV. The Birth of Radio-loud Quasar 013815 00
%0 Journal Article
%1 kunertbajraszewska2020caltechnrao
%A Kunert-Bajraszewska, Magdalena
%A Wolowska, Aleksandra
%A Mooley, Kunal
%A Kharb, Preeti
%A Hallinan, Gregg
%D 2020
%K AGN Radio_loud Stripe82
%T Caltech-NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS). IV. The Birth of Radio-loud Quasar
013815+00
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01590
%X It is believed that the gas accretion onto the supermassive black holes
(SMBHs) is the main process of powering its luminous emission, which occurs in
optical, UV and X-ray regimes and less frequently in radio waves. The
observational fact that only a few percent of quasars are radio-loud is still
an unresolved issue concerning the understanding of the active galactic nucleus
(AGN) population. Here we present a detection of a rapid transition from the
radio-quiet to the radio-loud mode in quasar 013815+00 (z=0.94) which coincides
with changes of its UV-optical continuum and the low ionization MgII broadline.
We interpret this as an enhancement of accretion onto a central black hole of
mass about 10^9 solar masses. As a consequence a new radio-loud AGN was born.
Its spectral and morphological properties indicate that it went through the
short gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) phase at the beginning of its activity
and has now stabilized its flux density at the level of a few mJy. The radio
morphology of 013815+00 is very compact and we predict that with such
short-term jet activity its development will be very slow. The observed
luminosity changes of the accretion disk are shorter than the lifetime of the
new radio phase in 013815+00.
@article{kunertbajraszewska2020caltechnrao,
abstract = {It is believed that the gas accretion onto the supermassive black holes
(SMBHs) is the main process of powering its luminous emission, which occurs in
optical, UV and X-ray regimes and less frequently in radio waves. The
observational fact that only a few percent of quasars are radio-loud is still
an unresolved issue concerning the understanding of the active galactic nucleus
(AGN) population. Here we present a detection of a rapid transition from the
radio-quiet to the radio-loud mode in quasar 013815+00 (z=0.94) which coincides
with changes of its UV-optical continuum and the low ionization MgII broadline.
We interpret this as an enhancement of accretion onto a central black hole of
mass about 10^9 solar masses. As a consequence a new radio-loud AGN was born.
Its spectral and morphological properties indicate that it went through the
short gigahertz-peaked spectrum (GPS) phase at the beginning of its activity
and has now stabilized its flux density at the level of a few mJy. The radio
morphology of 013815+00 is very compact and we predict that with such
short-term jet activity its development will be very slow. The observed
luminosity changes of the accretion disk are shorter than the lifetime of the
new radio phase in 013815+00.},
added-at = {2020-07-06T08:54:05.000+0200},
author = {Kunert-Bajraszewska, Magdalena and Wolowska, Aleksandra and Mooley, Kunal and Kharb, Preeti and Hallinan, Gregg},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28b676275c5a9e6fabce1935c8f3605d7/kiwasawa},
description = {Caltech-NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS). IV. The Birth of Radio-loud Quasar 013815 00},
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intrahash = {8b676275c5a9e6fabce1935c8f3605d7},
keywords = {AGN Radio_loud Stripe82},
note = {cite arxiv:2007.01590Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, accepted to ApJ},
timestamp = {2020-07-06T08:54:05.000+0200},
title = {Caltech-NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS). IV. The Birth of Radio-loud Quasar
013815+00},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01590},
year = 2020
}