Mid-infrared variability of γ-ray emitting blazars

被引：11

作者：

Anjum, Ayesha ^{[1
]}

Stalin, C. S. ^{[2
]}

Rakshit, Suvendu ^{[3
]}

Gudennavar, Shivappa B. ^{[1
]}

Durgapal, Alok ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] CHRIST Deemed Be Univ, Dept Phys & Elect, Bangalore Cent Campus, Bengaluru 560029, India

[2] Indian Inst Astrophys, Block 2, Koramangala 560034, Bengaluru, India

[3] Univ Turku, Finnish Ctr Astron ESO FINCA, Vesilinnantie 5, FI-20014 Turku, Finland

[4] Kumaun Univ, Dept Phys, Ctr Adv Study, DSB Campus, Naini Tal 263002, India

来源：

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 2020年 / 494卷 / 01期

基金：

美国国家航空航天局;

关键词：

galaxies: active; BL Lacertae objects: general; galaxies: jets; infrared: galaxies; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; BL-LACERTAE OBJECTS; OPTICAL VARIABILITY; RELATIVISTIC JETS; SPECTRAL VARIABILITY; DUST TORUS; X-RAY; RADIO; MODELS; COLOR;

D O I：

10.1093/mnras/staa771

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Using data from the Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer, we studied the mid-infrared (mid-IR) 3.4 mu m (W1-band) and 4.6 mu m (W2-band) flux variability of gamma-ray emitting blazars. Our sample consists of 460 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 575 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) objects. On intraday time-scales, the median amplitude of variability (sigma(m)) for FSRQs is 0.04(-0.02)(+0.03) and 0.05(-0.02)(+0.03) mag in W1 and W2 bands. For BL Lacs, we found median sigma(m) in W1(W2) bands of 0.04(-0.02)(+0.01 )(0.04(-0.02)(+0.02)) mag. On long time-scales, for FSRQs we found a median sigma(m) of 0.44(-0.27)(+0.28) and 0.45(-0.27)(+027) mag in W1 and W2 bands, while for BL Lacs, the median values are 0.21(-0.12)(+0.18) and 0.22(-0.11)(+0.18) mag in W1 and W2 bands. From statistical tests, we found FSRQs to show larger a m than BL Lacs on both intraday and long time-scales. Among blazars, low synchrotron peaked sources showed larger sigma(m) compared to intermediate synchrotron peaked and high synchrotron peaked sources. The larger sigma(m) seen in FSRQs relative to BL Lacs on both intraday and long time-scales could be due to them having the most powerful relativistic jets and/or their mid-IR band coinciding with the peak of the electron energy distribution. BL Lacs have low power jets and the observational window too traces the emission from low-energy electrons, thereby leading to low sigma(m). In both FSRQs and BL Lacs predominantly a bluer when brighter behaviour was observed. No correlation is found between sigma(m) and black hole mass.

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页码：764 / 774

页数：11

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