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Extremes of the Jet-Accretion Power Relation of Blazars, as Explored by Nustar

Authors :
Sbarrato, T
Ghisellini, G
Tagliaferri, G
Perri, M
Madejski, G. M
Stern, D
Boggs, S. E
Christensen, F. E
Craig, W. W
Zhang, W. W
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462(2)
Publication Year :
2016
Publisher :
United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2016.

Abstract

Hard X-ray observations are crucial to study the non-thermal jet emission from high-redshift, powerful blazars. We observed two bright z > 2 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in hard X-rays to explore the details of their relativistic jets and their possible variability. S50014+81 (at z = 3.366) and B0222+185 (at z = 2.690) have been observed twice by the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) simultaneously with Swift X-ray Telescope, showing different variability behaviors. We found that NuSTAR is instrumental to explore the variability of powerful high-redshift blazars, even when no gamma-ray emission is detected. The two sources have proven to have respectively the most luminous accretion disc and the most powerful jet among known blazars. Thanks to these properties, they are located at the extreme end of the jet-accretion disc relation previously found for gamma-ray detected blazars, to which they are consistent.

Subjects

Subjects :
Astrophysics

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00358711
Volume :
462
Issue :
2
Database :
NASA Technical Reports
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsnas.20170003477
Document Type :
Report
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1730