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The Estimation of Fundamental Physics Parameters for Fermi-LAT Blazars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2022-02-02 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Aiming to delineate the physical framework of blazars, we present an effective method to estimate four important parameters based on the idea proposed by \citet{BK95}, including the upper limit of central black hole mass MM, the Doppler factor δ\delta, the distance along the axis to the site of the γ\gamma-ray production dd (which then can be transformed into the location of γ\gamma-ray-emitting region RγR_{\gamma}) and the propagation angle with respect to the axis of the accretion disk Φ\Phi. To do so, we adopt an identical sample with 809 {\it Fermi}-LAT-detected blazars which had been compiled in \citet{Pei20PASA}. These four derived parameters stepping onto the stage may shed new light on our knowledge regarding γ\gamma-ray blazars. With regard to the paper of \citet{BK95}, we obtain several new perspectives, mainly in: (1) putting forward an updated demarcation between BL Lacs and FSRQs based on the relation between broad-line region luminosity and disk luminosity both measured in Eddington units, i.e., Ldisk/LEdd=4.68×103L_{\rm disk}/L_{\rm Edd}=4.68\times10^{-3}, indicating that there are some differences between BL Lacs and FSRQs on the accretion power in the disk; (2) proposing that there is a so-called `appareling zone', a potential transition field between BL Lacs and FSRQs where the changing-look blazars perhaps reside; (3) the location of γ\gamma-ray emission region is principally constrained outside the broad-line region, and for some BL Lacs are also away from the dusty molecular torus, which means the importance of emission components in the jet.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.00530,
  title  = {The Estimation of Fundamental Physics Parameters for Fermi-LAT Blazars},
  author = {Zhiyuan Pei and Junhui Fan and Jianghe Yang and Danyi Huang and Ziyan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00530},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

24 pages, 9 figures, Accepted to ApJ