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Fermi Gamma-ray天文台观测到的VLBA喷流表观速度和初始活动星系核之间的联系

A Connection Between Apparent VLBA Jet Speeds and Initial Active Galactic Nucleus Detections Made by the Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory

M. L. Lister, D. C. Homan, M. Kadler, K. I. Kellermann, Y. Y. Kovalev, E. Ros, T. Savolainen, J. A. Zensus

摘要:

费米伽马射线天文台在其运行的头三个月里,探测到了MOJAVE中大约四分之一的能量在100兆电子伏以上的明亮平谱活动星系核(AGN)的无线电通量有限样本。利用甚长基线阵列(VLBA)测量了LAT亮活动星系核样本(LBAS)中的26个MOJAVE活动星系核的视秒差距尺度喷流速度。我们发现,伽马射线明亮的类星体有更快的喷流平均比非LBAS类星体,中位数为15 c,和值范围高达34 c。LAT探测到显著伽马射线通量变化的LBAS活动星系核通常比不变的活动星系核有更快的喷流。这些研究结果是在总体上与早期的结果的基础上,非均匀EGRET数据表明,伽玛射线明亮的活动星系核优先具有较高的多普勒助推因子比其他耀变体喷流。然而,对于完整的MOJAVE样本(24%)和先前已知的MOJAVE EGRET检测到的耀变体(43%),LAT检测率相对较低,这意味着多普勒增强不是确定特定AGN在伽马射线能量下是否明亮的唯一因素。与类星体相比,LBAS BL Lac天体的表观喷流速度较慢,其整体LAT检测率较高,这表明前者被费米探测到,因为它们具有更高的固有(未命名)伽马射线与射电光度比。

英文摘要:

In its first three months of operations, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Observatory has detected approximately one quarter of the radio-flux-limited MOJAVE sample of bright flat-spectrum active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at energies above 100 MeV. We have investigated the apparent parsec-scale jet speeds of 26 MOJAVE AGNs measured by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) that are in the LAT bright AGN sample (LBAS). We find that the gamma-ray bright quasars have faster jets on average than the non-LBAS quasars, with a median of 15 c, and values ranging up to 34 c. The LBAS AGNs in which the LAT has detected significant gamma-ray flux variability generally have faster jets than the nonvariable ones. These findings are in overall agreement with earlier results based on nonuniform EGRET data which suggested that gamma-ray bright AGNs have preferentially higher Doppler boosting factors than other blazar jets. However, the relatively low LAT detection rates for the full MOJAVE sample (24%) and previously known MOJAVE EGRET-detected blazars (43%) imply that Doppler boosting is not the sole factor that determines whether a particular AGN is bright at gamma-ray energies. The slower apparent jet speeds of LBAS BL Lac objects and their higher overall LAT detection rate as compared to quasars suggest that the former are being detected by Fermi because of their higher intrinsic (unbeamed) gamma-ray to radio luminosity ratios.

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