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射电亮耀变体最大样本的极限亮度温度和多普勒因子的约束

Constraining the limiting brightness temperature and Doppler factors for the largest sample of radio bright blazars

I. Liodakis, T. Hovatta, D. Huppenkothen, S. Kiehlmann, W. Max-Moerbeck, A. C. S. Readhead

摘要:

相对论效应支配着耀变体喷流的发射,使我们对其内在性质的理解变得复杂。虽然已经提出了许多方法来解释他们,多普勒因子的变化方法已被证明是最好的描述blazar人口。我们使用贝叶斯分层代码称为{ \it磁控管}的光变曲线的欧文斯谷射电天文台的40米望远镜观察到的一系列耀斑的指数上升和衰减,并估计其可变性亮度温度。我们的分析使我们能够对均分亮度温度进行最严格的限制,即,我们发现在波束源中达到的最大本征亮度温度是$\rm \langle T_{eq}\rangle=2.78\times10^{11}K\pm26\%$。使用我们的研究结果,我们估计的变化多普勒因子的最大样本的耀变体增加了文献中的可用估计的数量几乎一个数量级。我们的结果清楚地表明,$γ$射线强源比$γ$射线弱源具有更快和更高幅度的耀斑。因此,它们表现出更高的亮度温度变化,从而更相对论性地被波束化,所有这些都表明喷流的射电耀斑性质和$γ$射线发射之间有很强的联系。

英文摘要:

Relativistic effects dominate the emission of blazar jets complicating our understanding of their intrinsic properties. Although many methods have been proposed to account for them, the variability Doppler factor method has been shown to describe the blazar populations best. We use a Bayesian hierarchical code called {\it Magnetron} to model the light curves of 1029 sources observed by the Owens Valley Radio Observatory's 40-m telescope as a series of flares with an exponential rise and decay, and estimate their variability brightness temperature. Our analysis allows us to place the most stringent constraints on the equipartition brightness temperature i.e., the maximum achieved intrinsic brightness temperature in beamed sources which we found to be $\rm \langle T_{eq}\rangle=2.78\times10^{11}K\pm26\%$. Using our findings we estimated the variability Doppler factor for the largest sample of blazars increasing the number of available estimates in the literature by almost an order of magnitude. Our results clearly show that $γ$-ray loud sources have faster and higher amplitude flares than $γ$-ray quiet sources. As a consequence they show higher variability brightness temperatures and thus are more relativistically beamed, with all of the above suggesting a strong connection between the radio flaring properties of the jet and $γ$-ray emission.

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