The core dominance parameter and \emph{Fermi} detection of extragalactic radio sources
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 -ray sources and 462 non-\emph{Fermi} sources with available core dominance parameter(), core and extended radio luminosity; all the parameters are directly measured or derived from available data in the literature. We found that have significant correlations with radio core luminosities, -ray luminosity and -ray flux respectively; the \emph{Fermi} sources have on average higher 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 -ray emission. Moreover, our results also show \emph{Fermi} sources have systematically larger radio flux than non-\emph{Fermi} sources at fixed , indicating larger intrinsic radio flux in \emph{Fermi} sources. These results show a strong connection between radio and -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 -ray flux, support a scenario in the literature: a co-spatial origin of the activity for the radio and -ray emission, suggesting that the origin of the seed photons for the high-energy -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