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Blazar变星的射电波段观测

Radio Band Observations of Blazar Variability

Margo F. Aller, Hugh D. Aller, Philip A. Hughes

摘要:

利用单碟监测的时间分辨率和VLBA成像的空间分辨率的独特组合,研究了耀变体在无线电波段的特性;这种测量,现在可以在所有四个斯托克斯参数,加上理论模拟,确定无线电波段变异的起源和探测宽带耀变体发射起源的无线电喷流的特性。光-无线电波段中总通量密度和线性极化的爆发归因于喷流脊内传播的激波,这部分是基于引起横向激波的有限模型;新的辐射转移模拟允许与流动方向成任意角度的冲击通过再现更一般地观察到的所观察到的厘米带变化来证实该图像,并且是当前感兴趣的,因为这些冲击可能在费米探测到的伽马射线耀斑中起作用。最近UMRAO多频斯托克斯V明亮的耀变体的研究确定的光谱变化特性的圆偏振的第一次,并证明极性翻转是比较常见的。全斯托克斯数据是一致的,与生产的圆偏振的线性到圆模式转换的区域中,至少部分自吸收。对3C 279的单历元、多频、全斯托克斯VLBA观测的详细分析支持了这一物理图像,并通过电子-质子等离子体的发射得到了最好的解释。

英文摘要:

The properties of blazar variability in the radio band are studied using the unique combination of temporal resolution from single dish monitoring and spatial resolution from VLBA imaging; such measurements, now available in all four Stokes parameters, together with theoretical simulations, identify the origin of radio band variability and probe the characteristics of the radio jet where the broadband blazar emission originates. Outbursts in total flux density and linear polarization in the optical-to-radio bands are attributed to shocks propagating within the jet spine, in part based on limited modeling invoking transverse shocks; new radiative transfer simulations allowing for shocks at arbitrary angle to the flow direction confirm this picture by reproducing the observed centimeter-band variations observed more generally, and are of current interest since these shocks may play a role in the gamma-ray flaring detected by Fermi. Recent UMRAO multifrequency Stokes V studies of bright blazars identify the spectral variability properties of circular polarization for the first time and demonstrate that polarity flips are relatively common. All-Stokes data are consistent with the production of circular polarization by linear-to-circular mode conversion in a region that is at least partially self-absorbed. Detailed analysis of single-epoch, multifrequency, all-Stokes VLBA observations of 3C 279 support this physical picture and are best explained by emission from an electron-proton plasma.

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