Basic properties of Gamma-ray loud blazars
Abstract
In this paper, a method is proposed to determine the basic properties of -ray loud blazars, among them the central black hole mass, M, the Doppler factor, , the propagation angle of the -rays with respect to the symmetric axis of a two-temperature accretion disk, , and the distance (i.e. the height above the accretion disk), d at which the -rays are created, for seven -ray loud blazars with available GeV variability timescales and in which the absorption effect of a -ray and the beaming effect have been taken into account. Our results indicate that, if we take the intrinsic -ray luminosity to be times the Eddington luminosity, , the masses of the blazars are in the range of , the Doppler factors () lie in the range of 0.57 to 5.33 the angle () is in the range of to 43 and the distance (d) is in the range of 26R_{g} to 411R_{g}. Our model results are independent of -ray emission mechanisms but they do depend on the X-ray emission mechanism of the accretion disk.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9910543,
title = {Basic properties of Gamma-ray loud blazars},
author = {K. S. Cheng and J. H. Fan and L. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9910543},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, 3 tables, A&A accepted