The core dominance parameter for gamma-ray loud blazars
Abstract
In this work, we compiled 604 blazars with available core-dominance parameter, out of which 149 blazars are known to have γ-ray emissions. We compared the logR between the 149 Fermi-detected blazars (FDB) and the rest non-Fermi-detected blazars (non-FDB), and found that the average values are < log R > = 1.12 +/- 0.88 for FDBs and < log R > = 0.05 +/- 0.94 for non-FDBs. A K-S test shows that the probability for the distributions of FDB and non-FDB to come from the same parent distribution is P = 2.38 × 10-7. We also investigated the correlation between the core-dominance parameters and the γ-ray emission variability index (VI) for 125 FDBs (45 BLs and 79 FSRQs), and found that there is a tendency for VI to increase with the core-dominance parameter for 79 FSRQs, but there is no such tendency for 46 BLs.
- Publication:
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Extragalactic Jets from Every Angle
- Pub Date:
- March 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921315001933
- Bibcode:
- 2015IAUS..313...83P