Identifying Variable γ-ray Sources Through Radio Observations
Abstract
We present preliminary results of a campaign undertaken with different radio interferometers to observe a sample of the most variable unidentified EGRET sources. We expect to detect which of the possible counterparts of the γ-ray sources (any of the radio emitters in the field) varies in time with similar timescales as the γ-ray variation. If the γ-rays are produced in a jet-like source, as we have modelled theoretically, synchrotron emission is also expected at radio wavelengths. Such radio emission should appear variable in time and correlated with the γ-ray variability.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- June 2005
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0407454
- Bibcode:
- 2005Ap&SS.297..223P
- Keywords:
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- γ-ray sources;
- radio sources;
- microquasars;
- microblazars;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Proceedings of the Conference "The Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Sources", to appear in the journal Astrophysics and Space Science