Gamma-ray bright blazars spectrophotometry Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Williamson K.E.
  2. Jorstad S.G.
  3. Marscher A.P.
  4. Larionov V.M.
  5. Smith P.S.,Agudo I.
  6. Arkharov A.A.
  7. Blinov D.A.
  8. Casadio C.
  9. Efimova N.V.
  10. Gomez J.L.,Hagen-Thorn V.A.
  11. Joshi M.
  12. Konstantinova T.S.
  13. Kopatskaya E.N.,Larionova E.G.
  14. Larionova L.V.
  15. Malmrose M.P.
  16. McHardy I.M.
  17. Molina S.N.,Morozova D.A.
  18. Schmidt G.D.
  19. Taylor B.W.
  20. Troitsky I.S.
  21. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present {gamma}-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared light curves of 33 {gamma}-ray bright blazars over 4 years that we have been monitoring since 2008 August with multiple optical, ground-based telescopes and the Swift satellite, and augmented by data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other publicly available data from Swift. The sample consists of 21 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 12 BL Lac objects (BL Lacs). We identify quiescent and active states of the sources based on their {gamma}-ray behavior. We derive {gamma}-ray, X-ray, and optical spectral indices, {alpha}_{gamma}_, {alpha}_X_, and {alpha}_o_, respectively (F_{nu}_{prop.to}{nu}^{alpha}^), and construct spectral energy distributions during quiescent and active states. We analyze the relationships between different spectral indices, blazar classes, and activity states. We find (1) significantly steeper {gamma}-ray spectra of FSRQs than for BL Lacs during quiescent states, but a flattening of the spectra for FSRQs during active states while the BL Lacs show no significant change; (2) a small difference of {alpha}_X_ within each class between states, with BL Lac X-ray spectra significantly steeper than in FSRQs; (3) a highly peaked distribution of X-ray spectral slopes of FSRQs at ~ -0.60, but a very broad distribution of {alpha}_X_of BL Lacs during active states; (4) flattening of the optical spectra of FSRQs during quiescent states, but no statistically significant change of {alpha}_o_ of BL Lacs between states; and (5) a positive correlation between optical and {gamma}-ray spectral slopes of BL Lacs, with similar values of the slopes. We discuss the findings with respect to the relative prominence of different components of high-energy and optical emission as the flux state changes.

Keywords
  1. spectrophotometry
  2. x-ray-sources
  3. gamma-ray-astronomy
  4. ultraviolet-astronomy
  5. infrared-photometry
  6. visible-astronomy
  7. Wide-band photometry
  8. bl-lacertae-objects
  9. quasars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2014ApJ...789..135W
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/789/135
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17890135

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History

2017-03-17T15:38:58Z
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2017-03-17T15:38:58Z
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2017-09-19T14:24:12Z
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