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The synchrotron component study in a spectral energy distribution of blazars

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-03-30 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We study the synchrotron component of the spectral energy distribution (SED) on the sample of 877 blazars using the ASDC SED Builder Tool with available broadband data from the literature. Our sample includes 423 flat-spectrum radio sources (FSRQs), 361 BL Lac objects and candidates, and 93 blazars of uncertain type. We have made an estimation of the synchrotron peak frequency (νpeaks\nu_{peak}^{s}) for the 875 objects and further classified them as high, intermediate and low synchrotron peaked sources (HSPs/ISPs/LSPs). There are 42 HSPs with νpeaks>1016.5\nu_{peak}^{s} > 10^{16.5} Hz, 222 ISPs with 1014.5<νpeaks<1016.510^{14.5} < \nu_{peak}^{s} < 10^{16.5} Hz, and 611 LSPs with νpeaks<1014.5\nu_{peak}^{s} < 10^{14.5} Hz in our sample. We have calculated an average value of νpeaks\nu_{peak}^{s} to be 1013.4±1.010^{13.4 \pm 1.0} Hz for FSRQs and 1014.6±1.410^{14.6 \pm 1.4} Hz for BL Lacs. We found out that νpeaks\nu_{peak}^{s} and the flux density at 4.8 GHz have a different distribution (as indicated by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test at significance level 0.05) for the FSRQ and BL Lac blazars, and for the RBL and XBL types of BL Lacs. Distribution of νpeaks\nu_{peak}^{s} values is broader for BL Lacs, than for FSRQs. There are no ultra-high energy peaked objects (with νpeaks>1019\nu_{peak}^{s} > 10^{19} Hz) in our BL Lac sample according to our estimations. The significant part of FSRQs (41%) and small part of BL Lacs (9%) in our sample could be considered as candidates to the very-low synchrotron peaked blazars (with νpeaks<1013\nu_{peak}^{s} < 10^{13} Hz). Our foundations confirm results of the previous studies made on samples with significantly smaller number of objects.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01109,
  title  = {The synchrotron component study in a spectral energy distribution of blazars},
  author = {M. Mingaliev and Yu. Sotnikova and T. Mufakharov and A. Erkenov and R. Udovitskiy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01109},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures. Will appear in Astrophysical Bulletin, Volume 70, Issue 3, 2015