English

The core dominance parameter and \emph{Fermi} detection of extragalactic radio sources

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-08-17 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

In this paper, by cross-correlating an archive sample of 542 extragalactic radio sources with the \emph{Fermi}-LAT Third Source Catalog(3FGL), we have compiled a sample of 80 γ\gamma-ray sources and 462 non-\emph{Fermi} sources with available core dominance parameter(RCDR_{CD}), core and extended radio luminosity; all the parameters are directly measured or derived from available data in the literature. We found that RCDR_{CD} have significant correlations with radio core luminosities, γ\gamma-ray luminosity and γ\gamma-ray flux respectively; the \emph{Fermi} sources have on average higher RCDR_{CD} than non-\emph{Fermi} sources. These results indicate that the \emph{Fermi} sources should be more compact, and beaming effect should play a crucial role for the detection of γ\gamma-ray emission. Moreover, our results also show \emph{Fermi} sources have systematically larger radio flux than non-\emph{Fermi} sources at fixed RCDR_{CD}, indicating larger intrinsic radio flux in \emph{Fermi} sources. These results show a strong connection between radio and γ\gamma-ray flux for the present sample and indicate that the non-\emph{Fermi} sources is likely due to low beaming effect, and/or the low intrinsic γ\gamma-ray flux, support a scenario in the literature: a co-spatial origin of the activity for the radio and γ\gamma-ray emission, suggesting that the origin of the seed photons for the high-energy γ\gamma-ray emission is within the jet.

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@article{arxiv.1604.04820,
  title  = {The core dominance parameter and \emph{Fermi} detection of extragalactic radio sources},
  author = {Zhenkuo Liu and Zhongzu Wu and Minfeng Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04820},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, 7 figures, accepted by RAA