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Basic properties of Gamma-ray loud blazars

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper, a method is proposed to determine the basic properties of γ\gamma-ray loud blazars, among them the central black hole mass, M, the Doppler factor, δ\delta, the propagation angle of the γ\gamma-rays with respect to the symmetric axis of a two-temperature accretion disk, Φ\Phi, and the distance (i.e. the height above the accretion disk), d at which the γ\gamma-rays are created, for seven γ\gamma-ray loud blazars with available GeV variability timescales and in which the absorption effect of a γ\gamma-ray and the beaming effect have been taken into account. Our results indicate that, if we take the intrinsic γ\gamma-ray luminosity to be λ\lambda times the Eddington luminosity, Lγin=λLEdd.L_{\gamma}^{in} = \lambda L_{Edd.}, the masses of the blazars are in the range of (4131)×107M(4 \sim 131)\times 10^{7}M_{\odot}, the Doppler factors (δ\delta) lie in the range of 0.57 to 5.33 the angle (Φ\Phi) is in the range of 1313^{\circ} to 43^{\circ} and the distance (d) is in the range of 26R_{g} to 411R_{g}. Our model results are independent of γ\gamma-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

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