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28 March 2024
 
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What Types of Jets does Nature Make: A New Population of Radio Quasars
P. Padovani ; E. Perlman ; H. Landt ; P. Giommi ; M. Perri ;
Date 13 Dec 2002
Journal Astrophys.J. 588 (2003) 128-142
Subject astro-ph
Affiliation1,2), E. Perlman (1,3), H. Landt (1,4), P. Giommi , M. Perri (5,6) ( STScI, ESA, JCA, UMBC, Hamburg Observatory, Germany, ASDC, ASI, Italy, Phys. Dept., Univ. La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
AbstractWe use statistical results from a large sample of about 500 blazars, based on two surveys, the Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS), nearly complete, and the RASS-Green Bank survey (RGB), to provide new constraints on the spectral energy distribution of blazars, particularly flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ). This reassessment is prompted by the discovery of a population of FSRQ with spectral energy distribution similar to that of high-energy peaked BL Lacs. The fraction of these sources is sample dependent, being ~ 10% in DXRBS and ~ 30% in RGB (and reaching ~ 80% for the Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey). We show that these ``X-ray strong’’ radio quasars, which had gone undetected or unnoticed in previous surveys, indeed are the strong-lined counterparts of high-energy peaked BL Lacs and have synchrotron peak frequencies, nu_peak, much higher than ``classical’’ FSRQ, typically in the UV band for DXRBS. Some of these objects may be 100 GeV - TeV emitters, as are several known BL Lacs with similar broadband spectra. Our large, deep, and homogeneous DXRBS sample does not show anti-correlations between nu_peak and radio, broad line region, or jet power, as expected in the so-called ``blazar sequence’’ scenario. However, the fact that FSRQ do not reach X-ray-to-radio flux ratios and nu_peak values as extreme as BL Lacs and the elusiveness of high nu_peak - high-power blazars suggest that there might be an intrinsic, physical limit to the synchrotron peak frequency that can be reached by strong-lined, powerful blazars. Our findings have important implications for the study of jet formation and physics and its relationship to other properties of active galactic nuclei.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0301227
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