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Multimessenger Picture of J1048+7143

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-03-20 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We draw the multimessenger picture of J1048+7143, a flat-spectrum radio quasar known to show quasi-periodic oscillations in the γ\gamma-ray regime. We generate the adaptively-binned Fermi Large Area Telescope light curve of this source above 168 MeV to find three major γ\gamma-ray flares of the source, such that all three flares consist of two-two sharp sub-flares. Based on radio interferometric imaging data taken with the Very Large Array, we find that the kpc-scale jet is directed towards west, while our analysis of 8.68.6-GHz very long baseline interferometry data, mostly taken with the Very Long Baseline Array, revealed signatures of two pc-scale jets, one pointing towards east, one pointing towards south. We suggest that the misalignment of the kpc- and pc-scale jets is a revealing signature of jet precession. We also analyze the 55-GHz total flux density curve of J1048+7143 taken with the Nanshan(Ur) and RATAN-600 single dish radio telescopes and find two complete radio flares, slightly lagging behind the γ\gamma-ray flares. We model the timing of γ\gamma-ray flares as signature of the spin-orbit precession in a supermassive black hole binary, and find that the binary could merge in the next 6080\sim 60-80 years. We show that both the Pulsar Timing Arrays and the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna lack sensitivity and frequency coverage to detect the hypothetical supermassive black hole binary in J1048++7143. We argue that the identification of sources similar to J1048+7143 plays a key role to reveal periodic high-energy sources in the distant Universe.

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@article{arxiv.2209.05107,
  title  = {Multimessenger Picture of J1048+7143},
  author = {Emma Kun and Ilja Jaroschewski and Armin Ghorbanietemad and Sándor Frey and Julia Becker Tjus and Silke Britzen and Krisztina Éva Gabányi and Vladimir Kiselev and Leander Schlegel and Marcel Schroller and Patrick Reichherzer and Lang Cui and Xin Wang and Yuling Shen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.05107},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

17 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ