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Blazar Variability and Evolution in the GeV Regime

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-02-11 v1

Abstract

One of the most important problem of the blazar astrophysics is to understand the physical origin of the blazar sequence. In this study, we focus on the GeV gamma-ray variability of blazars and evolution perspective we search the relation between the redshift and the variability amplitude of blazars for each blazar subclass. We analyzed the Fermi-LAT data of the TeV blazars and the bright AGNs (flux \geq 4×109\times10^{-9} cm2^{-2}s1^{-1}) selected from the 2LAC (the 2nd LAT AGN catalog) data base. As a result, we found a hint of the correlation between the redshift and the variability amplitude in the FSRQs. Furthermore the BL Lacs which have relatively lower peak frequency of the synchrotron radiation and relatively lower redshift, have a tendency to have a smaller variability amplitude.

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@article{arxiv.1502.03015,
  title  = {Blazar Variability and Evolution in the GeV Regime},
  author = {S. Tsujimoto and J. Kushida and K. Nishijima and K. Kodani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03015},
  year   = {2015}
}

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2014 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C14102.1

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