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2006年Blazar 3C 279上的WEBT活动

The WEBT Campaign on the Blazar 3C279 in 2006

M. Boettcher

摘要:

类星体3C 279是2006年1月至4月期间广泛的多波长监测活动的目标,其中包括由全球Blazar望远镜(WEBT)合作进行的光学-红外-无线电监测活动。在本文中,我们专注于WEBT运动的结果。该源表现出很大的变化的光通量和光谱形状,具有几天的特征时间尺度。整个光学BVRI带的变化模式是非常密切相关的彼此。在有趣的对比,其他(特别是,BL Lac型)耀变体,我们发现一个滞后的较短的落后较长的波长变化在整个RVB范围内,随着时间的延迟增加,频率增加。光谱硬化在耀斑出现延迟相对于一个上升的光通量。这与非常陡峭的IR-光学连续光谱指数~ 1.5 - 2.0相结合,可能表明喷流底部附近存在高度倾斜的磁场配置。通过缓慢(几天的时间尺度)加速机制的替代解释将需要< 0.2 G的异常低的磁场,大约比从先前对3C 279和具有类似性质的其他FSRQ的同时SED的分析中推断的低一个数量级。

英文摘要:

The quasar 3C279 was the target of an extensive multiwavelength monitoring campaign from January through April 2006, including an optical-IR-radio monitoring campaign by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) collaboration. In this paper we focus on the results of the WEBT campaign. The source exhibited substantial variability of optical flux and spectral shape, with a characteristic time scale of a few days. The variability patterns throughout the optical BVRI bands were very closely correlated with each other. In intriguing contrast to other (in particular, BL Lac type) blazars, we find a lag of shorter- behind longer-wavelength variability throughout the RVB ranges, with a time delay increasing with increasing frequency. Spectral hardening during flares appears delayed with respect to a rising optical flux. This, in combination with the very steep IR-optical continuum spectral index of ~ 1.5 - 2.0, may indicate a highly oblique magnetic field configuration near the base of the jet. An alternative explanation through a slow (time scale of several days) acceleration mechanism would require an unusually low magnetic field of < 0.2 G, about an order of magnitude lower than inferred from previous analyses of simultaneous SEDs of 3C279 and other FSRQs with similar properties.

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