B2 0954+25A: a typical Fermi blazar or a γ-ray loud Narrow Line Seyfert 1
Abstract
B2 0954+25A, detected by the Fermi satellite, is a blazar with interesting observational properties: it has been observed to transit from a jet-dominated to a disc-dominated state; its radio spectrum appears flat at all observing frequencies (down to 74 MHz); optically, the Hβ line profile is asymmetric. The flatness of the radio spectrum suggests that the isotropic emission from radio lobes is very weak, despite the large size of its jet (≳500 kpc). Its broad-band spectral energy distribution is surprisingly similar to that of the prototypical γ-ray, radio-loud, type 1 narrow-line Seyfert (γ-NLS1) galaxy PMN J0948+0022. In this work, we revisit the mass estimates of B2 0954+25A considering only the symmetric component of the Hβ line and find (1-3) × 108 M⊙. In light of our composite analysis, we propose to classify the source as a transition object between the classes of flat spectrum radio quasars and γ-NLS1 galaxies. A comparison with two members of each class (3C 273 and PMN J0948+0022) is discussed.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- August 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1202.3790
- Bibcode:
- 2012MNRAS.424.3081C
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: jets;
- quasars: individual: B2 0954+25A;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- MNRAS accepted. 14 pages, 6 figures