Spectral energy distributions for TeV blazars

13Citations
Citations of this article
7Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.

This article is free to access.

Abstract

In this work, we collected a sample of 69 TeV blazars from TeVCat, obtained their multi-wavelength observations, and fitted their spectral energy distributions by using a second degree polynomial function. The structure parameters of synchrotron bumps for 68 blazars and those of inverse-Compton bumps for 56 blazars were derived. Then, we conducted statistical analysis on the parameters (curvature, peak frequency, peak luminosity, bolometric luminosity and X/γ-ray spectral indexes). From our analysis and discussions, we can conclude the following: (1) There is a clear positive correlation between the synchrotron peak frequency, log vps, and the inverse-Compton peak frequency, log vpIC, and between the synchrotron peak luminosity, log vpsLvps, and the inverse-Compton peak luminosity, log vpIC LvpIC. (2) The correlation between the peak frequency and the curvature of synchrotron bump is clearly different from that of the inverse-Compton bump, which further indicates that there are different emission mechanisms between them. (3) There is a correlation between and γ-ray spectral index, αγ αγ, for the TeV blazars: log vpIC, which is consistent with previous work. (4) An "L-shape" relation is found between and α X for both TeV blazars and Fermi blazars. A significant correlation between and X-ray photon index (α X) is found for the TeV blazars with high synchrotron peak frequency: log vps = - (3.20 ± 0.34) α X + (24.33 ± 079), while the correlation is positive for low synchrotron peaked TeV sources. (5) In the α X - αγ diagram, there is also an "L-shape." The anti-correlation is consistent with results available in the literature, and we also find a positive correlation between them. (6) Inverse-Compton dominant sources have luminous bolometric luminosities.

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Lin, C., & Fan, J. H. (2018). Spectral energy distributions for TeV blazars. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18(10). https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-4527/18/10/120

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free