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arXiv 2006.02723astro-ph.HE
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费米亮Blazar光谱能量分布曲率的起源和演化

On the Origin and Evolution of Curvature of the Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi Bright Blazars

Muhammad S. Anjum, Liang Chen, Minfeng Gu

摘要:

blazar光谱能量分布中光谱曲率的起源和演化至今仍不清楚。由于所观察到的SED曲率与发射电子能量分布(EED)的内禀曲率有关,我们研究了这个问题,采用一个对数抛物线EED的曲率参数和峰值能量的费米-LAT明亮AGN样品(LBAS)使用同步加速器和逆康普顿(IC)过程模拟的准同步宽带SED选定的耀变体。我们发现,对数抛物IC模型可以成功地解释我们样本中所有耀变体的辐射。平均而言,FSRQs比BL Lac天体具有更高的磁场、多普勒因子和曲率。BL Lac天体的EED的曲率参数和它的峰值能量之间呈现出一种近似的关系,这是一种随机加速度的特征。FSRQs没有表现出这种相关性,而是显示出这些参数之间的轻度正相关。这表明,在BL Lac对象的光谱曲率的演变是由一个强大的随机加速组件,而在FSRQs的曲率演变在冷却为主的制度,由于一个额外的外部康普顿(EC)组件。FSRQ中的强冷却不仅限制了电子的峰值能量,而且使发射EED的高能尾部增加了额外的曲率。由于曲率从FSRQs向高峰值BL Lac天体(HBLs)减小,与峰值能量相反,曲率参数可以被认为是除了峰值频率和光度之外的耀变体序列的第三个参数。

英文摘要:

The origin and evolution of spectral curvature in blazar spectral energy distribution (SED) is still unclear. Since the observed SED curvature is related to an intrinsic curvature in emitting electron energy distribution (EED), we study this question by employing a log-parabolic EED with a curvature parameter and peak energy to model the quasi-simultaneous broadband SEDs of selected blazars in Fermi-LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS) using synchrotron and inverse Compton (IC) processes. We find that log-parabolic IC model can successfully explain the emission in all blazars in our sample. On average, FSRQs have higher magnetic field, Doppler factor, and curvature than BL Lac objects. The BL Lac objects show an anticorrelation between the curvature parameter of the EED and its peak energy, which is a signature of stochastic acceleration. FSRQs do not manifest such correlation and rather show a mild positive relationship between these parameters. This suggests that the evolution of spectral curvature in the BL Lac objects is dominated by a strong stochastic acceleration component, whereas the curvature in FSRQs evolves in a cooling dominated regime due to an additional external Compton (EC) component. The strong cooling in FSRQs not only restricts the electron peak energy but also adds extra curvature to the high energy tail of emitting EED. Since the curvature decreases from FSRQs toward high peak BL Lac objects (HBLs), opposite to peak energy, the curvature parameter can be considered a third parameter of the blazar sequence in addition to peak frequency and luminosity.

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