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The curvature of the $gamma$-ray spectrum in blazars may reflect the intrinsic distribution of the emitting electron distribution, which will further give some information on the possible acceleration and cooling processes in the emitting region. The $gamma$-ray spectra of Fermi blazars are normally fitted either by a single power-law (PL) or a log-normal (call Logarithmic Parabola, LP) form. The possible reason for this differnece is not unclear. We statistically explore this issue based on the different observational properties of 1419 Fermi blazars in the 3LAC Clean sample. We find that the $gamma$-ray flux (100 MeV-100 GeV) and variability index follow bimodal distributions for PL and LP blazars, where $gamma$-ray flux and variability index show {a positive correlation}. However, the distributions of the $gamma$-ray luminosity and redshift follow a unimodal distribution. Our results suggest that the bimodal distribution of $gamma$-ray flux for LP and PL blazars may be not intrinsic and all blazars may have an intrinsic curved $gamma$-ray spectrum and the PL spectrum is just caused by the fitting effect due to the less photons.
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Beaming effect is important for the observational properties of blazars. In this work, we collect 91 $Fermi$ blazars with available radio Doppler factors. $gamma$-ray Doppler factors are estimated and compared with radio Doppler factors for some sources. The intrinsic (de-beamed) $gamma$-ray flux density ($f^{rm in}_{gamma}$), intrinsic $gamma$-ray luminosity ($L^{rm in}_{gamma}$), and intrinsic synchrotron peak frequency ($ u_{rm p}^{rm in}$) are calculated. Then we study the correlations between $f^{rm in}_{gamma}$ and redshift and find that they follow the theoretical relation: $log f = -2.0 log z + {rm const}$. When the subclasses are considered, we find that stationary jets are perhaps dominant in low synchrotron peaked blazars. 63 $Fermi$ blazars with both available short variability time scales ($Delta T$) and Doppler factors are also collected. We find that the intrinsic relationship between $L ^{rm in}_{gamma}$ and $Delta T^{rm in}$ obeys the Elliot & Shapiro and the Abramowicz & Nobili relations. Strong positive correlation between $f_{gamma}^{rm in}$ and $ u_{rm p}^{rm in}$ is found, suggesting that synchrotron emissions are highly correlated with $gamma$-ray emissions.
Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with extreme observation properties, which is caused by the beaming effect, expressed by a Doppler factor, in a relativistic jet. Doppler factor is an important parameter in the blazars paradigm to indicate all of the observation properties, and many methods were proposed to estimate its value. In this paper, we present a method following Mattox et al. to calculate the lower limit on gamma-ray Doppler factor for 809 selected Fermi/LAT-detected gamma-ray blazars by adopting the available gamma-ray and X-ray data. Our sample included 342 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 467 BL Lac objects (BL Lacs), out of which 507 sources are compiled with available radio core-dominance parameter (R) from our previous study. Our calculation shows that the average values of the lower limit on gamma-ray Doppler factor for FSRQs and BL Lacs are 6.87 and 4.31, respectively. We compare and discuss our results with those from the literature. We found that the derived lower limit on gamma-ray Doppler factor for some sources are higher than that from the radio estimation, which could be possibly explained by the jet bending within those blazars. Our results also suggest that the gamma-ray and radio regions perhaps share the same relativistic effects. The gamma-ray Doppler factor has been found to be correlated with both the gamma-ray luminosity and core-dominance parameter, implying that the jet is possibly continuous in the gamma-ray bands, and R is perhaps an indicator for a beaming effect.
Blazars are an extreme subclass of active galactic nuclei. Their rapid variability, luminous brightness, superluminal motion, and high and variable polarization are probably due to a beaming effect. However, this beaming factor (or Doppler factor) is very difficult to measure. Currently, a good way to estimate it is to use the time scale of their radio flares. In this $Letter$, we use multiwavelength data and Doppler factors reported in the literatures for a sample of 86 flaring blazars detected by Fermi to compute their intrinsic multiwavelength data and intrinsic spectral energy distributions, and investigate the correlations among observed and intrinsic data. Quite interestingly, intrinsic data show a positive correlation between luminosity and peak frequency, in contrast with the behavior of observed data, and a tighter correlation between $gamma$-ray luminosity and the lower energy ones. For flaring blazars detected by Fermi, we conclude that (1) Observed emissions are strongly beamed; (2) The anti-correlation between luminosity and peak frequency from the observed data is an apparent result, the correlation between intrinsic data being positive; and (3) Intrinsic $gamma$-ray luminosity is strongly correlated with other intrinsic luminosities.
The Fermi-LAT revealed that the census of the gamma-ray sky is dominated by blazars. Looking for a possible connection between radio and gamma-ray emission is a central issue for understanding the blazar physics, and various works were dedicated to this topic. However, while a strong and significant correlation was found between radio and gamma-ray emission in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range, the connection between radio and very high energy (VHE, E>0.1 TeV) emission is still elusive. The main reason is the lack of a homogeneous VHE sky coverage, due to the operational mode of the imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. With the present work we aim to quantify and assess the significance of the possible connection between high-resolution radio emission, on milliarcsecond scale, and GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission in blazars. For achieving our goal we extract two large and unbiased blazar samples from the 1FHL and 2FHL Fermi catalogs, above 10 GeV and 50 GeV, respectively. To investigate how the correlation evolves as the gamma-ray energy increases, we perform the same analysis by using the 0.1-300 GeV 3FGL gamma-ray energy fluxes. When we consider the 0.1-300 GeV gamma-ray energy range, we find a strong and significant correlation for all of the blazar sub-classes. Conversely, when we consider the gamma-ray emission above 10 GeV the correlation with the radio emission vanishes, with the exception of the blazar sub-class of high synchrotron peaked objects.
In this paper, we have selected a sample of 64 teraelectronvolt blazars, with redshift, from those classified in the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope source catalogfootnote{url{https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/lat/8yr_catalog/}}. We have obtained the values of the relevant physical parameters by performing a log-parabolic fitting of the average-state multiwavelength spectral energy distributions. We estimate the range of the radiation zone parameters, such as the Doppler factor (${D}$), the magnetic field strength ($B$), the radiative zone radius ($R$) and the peak Lorentz factor (${gamma _{rm p}}$) of nonthermal electrons. Here, we show that (1) there is a strong linear positive correlation between the intrinsic synchrotron peak frequency and the intrinsic inverse Compton scattering (ICs) peak frequency among different types of blazars; (2) if radio bands are excluded, the spectral index of each band is negatively correlated with the intrinsic peak frequency; (3) there is a strong linear negative correlation between the curvature at the peak and the intrinsic peak frequency of the synchrotron bump, and a weak positive correlation between the curvature at the peak and the intrinsic peak frequency of the ICs bump; (4) there is a strong linear positive correlation between the intrinsic ICs peak luminosity and intrinsic $gamma$-ray luminosity and between the intrinsic ICs peak frequency and peak Lorentz factor; (5) there is a strong negative linear correlation between $rm log{;B}$ and $rm log{;gamma_{p}}$; and (6) there is no correlation between $rm log{;R}$ and $rm log{;gamma_{p}}$.
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