English

Basic properties of Fermi blazars and the "blazar sequence"

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

By statistically analyzing a large sample which includes blazars of Fermi detection (FBs) and non-Fermi detection (NFBs), we find that there are significant differences between FBs and NFBs for redshift, black hole mass, jet kinetic power from "cavity" power, broad-line luminosity, and ratio of core luminosity to absolute V-band magnitude (RvR_{\rm v}), but not for ratio of radio core to extended flux (RcR_{\rm c}) and Eddington ratio. Compared with NFBs, FBs have larger mean jet power, RcR_{\rm c} and RvR_{\rm v} while smaller mean redshift, black hole mass, broad-line luminosity. These results support that the beaming effect is main reason for differences between FBs and NFBs, and that FBs are likely to have a more powerful jet. For both Fermi and non-Fermi blazars, there are significant correlations between jet power and the accretion rate (traced by the broad-emission-lines luminosity), between jet power and black hole mass; for Fermi blazars, the black hole mass does not have significant influence on jet power while for non-Fermi blazars, both accretion rate and black hole mass have contributions to the jet power. Our results support the "blazar sequence" and show that synchrotron peak frequency (νpeak\nu_{\rm peak}) is associated with accretion rate but not with black hole mass.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.02706,
  title  = {Basic properties of Fermi blazars and the "blazar sequence"},
  author = {Dingrong Xiong and Xiong Zhang and Jinming Bai and Haojing Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.02706},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages, 1 table, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1001.0731 by other authors

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