分析3C 279中的偏振摆动
高能天体物理现象
2015-06-17 v2 宇宙学与河外天体物理
摘要
类星体3C 279已知会表现出光学偏振角旋转的时段。我们展示了3C 279新的、采样良好的光学偏振数据，并引入了一种区分随机和确定性电矢量位置角（EVPA）变化的方法。我们观察到EVPA在两个方向上的旋转，幅度不同，并发现EVPA变化同时具有随机和确定性特征。我们的分析表明，在喷流的低亮度状态下，EVPA变化可能由随机过程主导，而在耀发状态下则由确定性过程主导。
引用
@article{arxiv.1311.3126,
title = {Analyzing polarization swings in 3C 279},
author = {S. Kiehlmann and T. Savolainen and S. G. Jorstad and K. V. Sokolovsky and F. K. Schinzel and I. Agudo and A. A. Arkharov and E. Benitez and A. Berdyugin and D. A. Blinov and N. G. Bochkarev and G. A. Borman and A. N. Burenkov and C. Casadio and V. T. Doroshenko and N. V. Efimova and Y. Fukazawa and J. L. Gomez and V. A. Hagen-Thorn and J. Heidt and D. Hiriart and R. Itoh and M. Joshi and G. N. Kimeridze and T. S. Konstantinova and E. N. Kopatskaya and I. V. Korobtsev and Y. Y. Kovalev and T. Krajci and O. Kurtanidze and S. O. Kurtanidze and V. M. Larionov and E. G. Larionova and L. V. Larionova and E. Lindfors and J. M. Lopez and A. P. Marscher and I. M. McHardy and S. N. Molina and D. A. Morozova and S. V. Nazarov and M. G. Nikolashvili and K. Nilsson and N. G. Pulatova and R. Reinthal and A. Sadun and S. G. Sergeev and L. A. Sigua and M. Sorcia and O. I. Spiridonova and L. O. Takalo and B. Taylor and I. S. Troitsky and L. S. Ugolkova and J. A. Zensus and V. E. Zhdanova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3126},
year = {2015}
}
备注
6 pages, 2 figures, 4 tables, proceeding to appear on EPJ Web of Conferences "The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and their Magnetic Fields (Granada, Spain,10-14 June 2013)"