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2022MNRAS.515.2215C - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 515, 2215-2223 (2022/September-2)

The dichotomy between low-frequency-peaked BL Lacs and flat-spectrum radio quasars.

CHENG Y.P., KANG S.J. and ZHENG Y.G.

Abstract (from CDS):

By comparing the Fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope active galactic nuclei (AGNs) Catalog Data Release 2 (4LAC-DR2) and the Radio Fundamental Catalog (RFC-2021b), we obtain an AGN sample containing 2816 AGNs. We calculate the γ-ray loudness (Gγ) of the sample sources, and establish the relevant relationship between several gamma/radio properties. The results show that: 1) the synchrotron peak frequency ($\nu _\mathrm{peak}^S$) strongly correlates with the γ-ray photon spectral index (Γγ), γ-ray luminosity (Lγ), and radio luminosity (LR); 2) the low-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac objects (LBLs) and the flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) partially overlap in log $\nu _\mathrm{peak}^S\!-\!\Gamma _\gamma$, log Lγγ, log LRγ, log Gγγ, log $\nu _\mathrm{peak}^S\!-\!$log Lγ, log $\nu _\mathrm{peak}^S\!-\!$log LR, and log $\nu _\mathrm{peak}^S\!-\!$log Gγ space. We plotted the distribution of redshift (z), $\nu _\mathrm{peak}^S$, Γγ, Lγ, VLBI 8.4 GHz flux density ($S_{\rm {8.4\, GHz}}$), and Gγ to distinguish FSRQs and LBLs. We note that $\nu _\mathrm{peak}^S$, Γγ, and $S_{8.4\, {\rm GHz}}$ show similar bimodal distributions. To further determine whether FSRQs are misjudged as LBLs, we examined the Compton dominance (CD), and found that CD < 1 for only two out of 39 sources. This measurement provides further evidence that FSRQs may be mistaken for LBLs.

Abstract Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): (galaxies:) BL Lacertae objects: general - Galaxies: (galaxies:) quasars: general - Galaxies ;

Simbad objects: 39

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