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用厘米波段偏振测量和辐射转移模拟约束Gamma-Ray闪耀Blazar喷流的物理条件。I. 0420-014、OJ 287和1156+295的数据和模型

Constraining the Physical Conditions in the Jets of Gamma-Ray Flaring Blazars using Centimeter-Band Polarimetry and Radiative Transfer Simulations. I. Data and Models for 0420-014, OJ 287, and 1156+295

M. F. Aller, P. A. Hughes, H. D. Aller, G. E. Latimer, T. Hovatta

摘要:

为了研究费米大角度望远镜探测到的GeV伽马射线耀斑期间的秒差距尺度喷流条件,我们获得了2009年5月至2012年5月的厘米波段总通量密度和线性偏振监测观测,使用26米密歇根射电望远镜对核心主导的耀变体样本进行了观测。我们使用这些数据来约束辐射转移模拟,将传播冲击定向在一个任意角度的流动方向,以设置限制的喷流和冲击参数在耀斑的时间与伽马射线耀斑在0420-014,OJ 287,和1156+295;这些活动星系核表现出预期的签名冲击的线性偏振数据。在所有三个源中,包含单个射电爆发的激波数量(3-4)和单个激波的压缩比范围(0.5-0.8)都是相似的;发现激波相对于气流向前移动。虽然包含横向激波的模拟对0420-014和1156+295提供了很好的拟合,但对OJ~287爆发的模拟需要斜激波,并且还确定了辐射粒子能量分布的低能截止值异常低。我们推导的视角和激波速度与独立VLBA结果一致。虽然一个随机组件占主导地位的射流磁场,如证明了低分数线极化,再现所观察到的光谱特性需要的磁场能量的一个显着的分数是在一个有序的轴向分量。直线和低螺距角螺旋场线都是可行的方案。

英文摘要:

To investigate parsec-scale jet flow conditions during GeV gamma-ray flares detected by the Fermi Large Angle Telescope, we obtained centimeter-band total flux density and linear polarization monitoring observations from 2009.5 through 2012.5 with the 26-meter Michigan radio telescope for a sample of core-dominated blazars. We use these data to constrain radiative transfer simulations incorporating propagating shocks oriented at an arbitrary angle to the flow direction in order to set limits on the jet flow and shock parameters during flares temporally associated with gamma-ray flares in 0420-014, OJ 287, and 1156+295; these AGN exhibited the expected signature of shocks in the linear polarization data. Both the number of shocks comprising an individual radio outburst (3-4) and the range of the compression ratios of the individual shocks (0.5-0.8) are similar in all three sources; the shocks are found to be forward-moving with respect to the flow. While simulations incorporating transverse shocks provide good fits for 0420-014 and 1156+295, oblique shocks are required for modeling the OJ~287 outburst, and an unusually-low value of the low energy cutoff of the radiating particles' energy distribution is also identified. Our derived viewing angles and shock speeds are consistent with independent VLBA results. While a random component dominates the jet magnetic field, as evidenced by the low fractional linear polarization, to reproduce the observed spectral character requires that a significant fraction of the magnetic field energy is in an ordered axial component. Both straight and low pitch angle helical field lines are viable scenarios.

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