Relativistic beaming effects in BL Lacertae objects: Evidence for RBL/XBL dichotomy

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• 作者：F. C. Odo ; A. E. Chukwude ; A. A. Ubachukwu
• 关键词：Galaxies ; active ; BL Lacertae objects—general ; Quasars—general
• 刊名：Astrophysics and Space Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：362
• 期：2
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• 刊物类别：Physics and Astronomy
• 刊物主题：Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques; Cosmology; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics); Astrobiology;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-946X
• 卷排序：362

文摘

In this paper, we review the predictions of the popular relativistic beaming model for the unification of radio- and X-ray selected BL Lac (RBL and XBL) populations. Using results of recent analyses, we compare the detailed predictions against observational data and find that RBL–XBL orientation sequence is somewhat questionable. However, FSRQs and BL Lac populations can be unified via luminosity evolution with XBLs and RBLs representing different, but not continuous, stages in the evolution of FSRQs. RBLs, XBLs and FSRQs independently show significant anti-correlation (\(r \geq 0.6\)) between core-to-lobe luminosity ratio and extended radio luminosity, suggestive that they are different representatives of a spectral sequence formed by similar underlying physical phenomenon. These results suggest that there are some fundamental differences between the two BL Lac populations, although orientation effect can also be playing a significant role.