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Blazar AO 0235+164和PKS 1510-089的显著偏振耀斑

Prominent Polarized Flares of the Blazars AO 0235+164 and PKS 1510-089

Mahito Sasada, Makoto Uemura, Yasushi Fukazawa, Koji S. Kawabata, Yuki Ikejiri, Ryosuke Itoh, Masayuki Yamanaka, Kiyoshi Sakimoto, Takashi Ohsugi, Michitoshi Yo… 展开作者

Mahito Sasada, Makoto Uemura, Yasushi Fukazawa, Koji S. Kawabata, Yuki Ikejiri, Ryosuke Itoh, Masayuki Yamanaka, Kiyoshi Sakimoto, Takashi Ohsugi, Michitoshi Yoshida, Shuji Sato, Masaru Kino

摘要:

我们报告了耀变体AO 0235+164和PKS 1510-089的多波段光度和偏振观测。这两颗耀变体分别活跃于2008年和2009年。在这些活跃状态下,两个天体都观测到了显著的短耀斑,在10天内的振幅都大于1等。当这些耀斑中的物体更亮时,$V-J$的颜色变得更蓝。另一方面,PKS 1510-089的颜色表现出一种趋势,即当它更亮时,它变得更红,除了它的显著耀斑。这种越亮越红的趋势可以用来自吸积盘的热辐射的强烈贡献来解释。耀斑期间偏振度增大,最大值达到25%以上.我们比较了这些耀斑在AO 0235+164和PKS 1510-089与其他短耀斑,这是我们发现的41个耀变体的监测。这两个耀斑在流量和偏振度上都有最大的变化幅度。此外,我们还发现在短耀斑中,流量振幅与偏振度之间存在显著的正相关关系。这表明短耀斑起源于磁场对准的区域。

英文摘要:

We report on multi-band photometric and polarimetric observations of the blazars AO 0235+164 and PKS 1510-089. These two blazars were active in 2008 and 2009, respectively. In these active states, prominent short flares were observed in both objects, having amplitudes of >1 mag within 10 d. The $V-J$ color became bluer when the objects were brighter in these flares. On the other hand, the color of PKS 1510-089 exhibited a trend that it became redder when it was brighter, except for its prominent flare. This redder-when-brighter trend can be explained by the strong contribution of thermal emission from an accretion disk. The polarization degree increased at the flares, and reached >25 % at the maxima. We compare these flares in AO 0235+164 and PKS 1510-089 with other short flares which were detected by our monitoring of 41 blazars. Those two flares had one of the largest variation amplitudes in both flux and polarization degree. Furthermore, we found a significant positive correlation between the amplitudes of the flux and polarization degree in the short flares. It indicates that the short flares originate from the region where the magnetic field is aligned.

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