Intrinsic brightness temperatures of blazar jets at 15 GHz
Abstract
We have developed a new Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to deconvolve light curves of blazars into individual flares, including proper estimation of the fit errors. We use the method to fit 15GHz light curves obtained within the OVRO 40-m blazar monitoring program where a large number of AGN have been monitored since 2008 in support of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope mission. The time scales obtained from the fitted models are used to calculate the variability brightness temperature of the sources. Additionally, we have calculated brightness temperatures of a sample of these objects using Very Long Baseline Array data from the MOJAVE survey. Combining these two data sets enables us to study the intrinsic brightness temperature distribution in these blazars at 15 GHz. Our preliminary results indicate that the mean intrinsic brightness temperature in a sample of 14 sources is near the equipartition brightness temperature of ~ 10^(11)K.
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© 2013 Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Published online: 9 December 2013. T.H. and J.R. acknowledge the support of the American Astronomical Society and the National Science Foundation in the form of an International Travel Grant. T.H. was supported by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri foundation. The OVRO 40-m monitoring program is supported in part by NASA grants NNX08AW31G and NNX11A043G, and NSF grants AST-0808050 and AST-1109911. The MOJAVE project is supported under NASA-Fermi grants NNX08AV67G and 11-Fermi-11-0019.Attached Files
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- American Astronomical Society
- Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation
- NNX08AW31G
- NASA
- NNX11A043G
- NASA
- AST-0808050
- NSF
- AST-1109911
- NSF
- NNX08AV67G
- NASA Fermi
- 11-Fermi-11-0019
- NASA
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