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耀变体射电和gamma-ray活动与gamma-ray辐射产生场的时间相关性

Time-correlation between the radio and gamma-ray activity in blazars and the production site of the gamma-ray emission

W. Max-Moerbeck, T. Hovatta, J. L. Richards, O. G. King, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, R. Reeves, M. C. Shepherd, M. A. Stevenson, E. Angelakis, L. Fuhrmann… 展开作者

W. Max-Moerbeck, T. Hovatta, J. L. Richards, O. G. King, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, R. Reeves, M. C. Shepherd, M. A. Stevenson, E. Angelakis, L. Fuhrmann, K. J. B. Grainge, V. Pavlidou, R. W. Romani, J. A. Zensus

摘要:

为了确定耀变体中γ射线发射点的位置,我们研究了耀变体的射电和γ射线发射之间的时域关系。从费米伽马射线太空望远镜任务的前3年中检测到的最亮耀变体的光变曲线与OVRO 40-m监测计划的4年15 GHz观测结果交叉相关。大样本和长的光变曲线持续时间使我们能够进行互相关的重要性的统计鲁棒性分析,这是使用蒙特卡罗模拟,包括不均匀的采样和噪声特性的光变曲线进行调查。将光变曲线建模为具有幂律功率谱密度的红噪声过程,我们发现在两个波段具有高质量数据的41个源中只有一个显示出大于3-sigma(AO 0235+164)的显著性相关性,只有两个大于甚至2.25-sigma(PKS 1502+106和B2 2308+34)。此外,我们发现相关的变化在Mrk 421时,包括一个强烈的耀斑发生在2012年7月至9月。这些结果非常清楚地表明,测量统计上稳健的多波长相关性的困难,以及在比较光变曲线时需要注意的问题,即使使用了多年的数据。这应该是一个警告。在所有四个来源中,射电变化都滞后于伽马射线变化,这表明伽马射线发射起源于射电发射的上游。在一个较长的时间段内,需要连续的同步监测,以获得高的显着性水平的伽玛射线和射电变异之间的互相关在大多数耀变体。

英文摘要:

In order to determine the location of the gamma-ray emission site in blazars, we investigate the time-domain relationship between their radio and gamma-ray emission. Light-curves for the brightest detected blazars from the first 3 years of the mission of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are cross-correlated with 4 years of 15GHz observations from the OVRO 40-m monitoring program. The large sample and long light-curve duration enable us to carry out a statistically robust analysis of the significance of the cross-correlations, which is investigated using Monte Carlo simulations including the uneven sampling and noise properties of the light-curves. Modeling the light-curves as red noise processes with power-law power spectral densities, we find that only one of 41 sources with high quality data in both bands shows correlations with significance larger than 3-sigma (AO 0235+164), with only two more larger than even 2.25-sigma (PKS 1502+106 and B2 2308+34). Additionally, we find correlated variability in Mrk 421 when including a strong flare that occurred in July-September 2012. These results demonstrate very clearly the difficulty of measuring statistically robust multiwavelength correlations and the care needed when comparing light-curves even when many years of data are used. This should be a caution. In all four sources the radio variations lag the gamma-ray variations, suggesting that the gamma-ray emission originates upstream of the radio emission. Continuous simultaneous monitoring over a longer time period is required to obtain high significance levels in cross-correlations between gamma-ray and radio variability in most blazars.

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