Optical spectroscopy of Fermi blazars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Paliya V.S.
  2. Dominguez A.
  3. Ajello M.
  4. Olmo-Garcia A.
  5. Hartmann D.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a catalog of central engine properties, i.e., black hole mass (M_BH_) and accretion luminosity (L_disk_), for a sample of 1077 blazars detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. This includes broad emission-line systems and blazars whose optical spectra lack emission lines but are dominated by the absorption features arising from the host galaxy. The average MBH for the sample is <logM_BH,allM_{sun}_>=8.60, and there is evidence suggesting the association of more massive black holes with absorption-line systems. Our results indicate a bimodality of L_disk_ in Eddington units (L_disk_/L_Edd_) with broad-line objects tend to have a higher accretion rate (L_disk_/L_Edd_>0.01). We have found that L_disk_/L_Edd_ and Compton dominance (CD; the ratio of the inverse Compton to synchrotron peak luminosities) are positively correlated at the >5{sigma} confidence level, suggesting that the latter can be used to reveal the state of accretion in blazars. Based on this result, we propose a CD-based classification scheme. Sources with CD>1 can be classified as high-Compton-dominated or HCD blazars, whereas those with CD<~1 are low-Compton-dominated (LCD) objects. This scheme is analogous to that based on the mass accretion rate proposed in the literature; however, it overcomes the limitation imposed by the difficulty in measuring Ldisk and MBH for objects with quasi-featureless spectra. We conclude that the overall physical properties of Fermi blazars are likely to be controlled by the accretion rate in Eddington units.

Keywords
  1. bl-lacertae-objects
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. spectroscopy
  4. redshifted
  5. gamma-ray-astronomy
  6. galaxy-kinematics
  7. black-holes
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJS..253...46P
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History

2021-07-29T12:34:44Z
Resource record created
2021-07-29T12:34:44Z
Created
2023-11-20T14:15:14Z
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