Gamma-ray luminosity function of gamma-ray bright AGNs

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Debbijoy Bhattacharya [1 ,2 ]
P.Sreekumar [2 ]
R.Mukherjee [3 ]
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[1] Department of Physics,Indian Institute of Science
[2] Space Astronomy & Instrumentation Division,ISRO Satellite Centre
[3] Barnard College,Columbia University
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galaxies:active—galaxies:evolution—galaxies:luminosity function—gamma-rays:observations;
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P172.3 [γ射线天文学];
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Detection of γ-ray emissions from a class of active galactic nuclei(viz blazars),has been one of the important findings from the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory(CGRO).However,their γ-ray luminosity function has not been well determined.Few at-tempts have been made in earlier works,where BL Lacs and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars(FSRQs) have been considered as a single source class.In this paper,we investigated the evolution and γ-ray luminosity function of FSRQs and BL Lacs separately.Our investigation indicates no evolution for BL Lacs,however FSRQs show significant evolution.Pure luminosity evolution is assumed for FSRQs and exponential and power law evolu-tion models are examined.Due to the small number of sources,the low luminosity end index of the luminosity function for FSRQs is constrained with an upper limit.BL Lac lu-minosity function shows no signature of break.As a consistency check,the model source distributions derived from these luminosity functions show no significant departure from the observed source distributions.
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页码:85 / 94
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