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Further evidences of superluminal AGNs as $\gamma$-ray sources

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-07-15 v1

Abstract

In our previous work in Xiao et al. (2019), we suggested that 6 superluminal sources could be gamma-ray candidates, and in fact 5 of them have been confirmed in the fourth Fermi-LAT source catalogue (4FGL). In this work, based on the 4FGL, we report a sample of 229 Fermi detected superluminal sources (FDSs) including 40 new FDSs and 62 non-Fermi detected superluminal sources (non-FDSs). Thus, we believe that all superluminal sources should have γ\gamma-ray emissions, and superluminal motion could also be a clue to detect γ\gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN). We present a new approach of Doppler factor estimate through the study of the γ\gamma-ray luminosity (LγL_{\rm \gamma}) and of the viewing angle (ϕ\phi).

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@article{arxiv.2005.02609,
  title  = {Further evidences of superluminal AGNs as $\gamma$-ray sources},
  author = {Hubing Xiao and Junhui Fan and Riccardo Rando and Jingtian Zhu and Liangjun Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.02609},
  year   = {2020}
}