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RADIO VARIABILITY AND RANDOM WALK NOISE PROPERTIES OF FOUR BLAZARS KCI 등재

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천문학논총 (Publications of the Korean Astronomical Society)
한국천문학회 (Korean Astronomical Society)
초록

We show the results of a time series analysis of the long-term light curves of four blazars: 3C 279, 3C 345, 3C 446, and BL Lacertae. We used densely sampled light curves spanning 32 years at three frequency bands (4.8, 8, 14.5 GHz), provided by the University of Michigan Radio Astronomy Observatory monitoring program. The spectral indices of our sources are mostly at or inverted (-0:5 < α < 0), which is consistent with optically thick emission. Strong variability was seen in all light curves on various time scales. From the analyses of time lags between the light curves from different frequency bands and the evolution of the spectral indices with time, we find that we can distinguish high-peaking ares and lowpeaking ares according to the Valtaoja et al. classification. The periodograms (temporal power spectra) of the light curves are in good agreement with random-walk power-law noise without any indication of (quasi-)periodic variability. We note that random-walk noise light curves can originate from multiple shocks in jets. The fact that all our sources are in agreement with being random-walk noise emitters at radio wavelengths suggests that such behavior is a general property of blazars. We are going to generalize our approach by applying our methodology to a much larger blazar sample in the near future.

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ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. DATA AND TARGET SELECTION
3. TEMPORAL VARIABILITY
4. SPECTRAL PROPERTIES
5. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
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저자
  • Jong-Ho Park(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Sascha Trippe(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)