BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey: XVI. General Physical Characteristics of BAT Blazars


Abstract in English

The recently released 105-month {it Swift}-Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky hard X-ray survey catalog presents an opportunity to study astrophysical objects detected in the deepest look at the entire hard X-ray (14$-$195 keV) sky. Here we report the results of a multifrequency study of 146 blazars from this catalog, quadrupling the number compared to past studies, by utilizing recent data from the {it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT), Swift-BAT, and archival measurements. In our $gamma$-ray analysis of $sim$10 years of the LAT data, 101 are found as $gamma$-ray emitters, whereas, 45 remains LAT undetected. We model the broadband spectral energy distributions with a synchrotron-inverse Compton radiative model. On average, BAT detected sources host massive black holes ($M_{rm bh}sim10^9$ M$_{odot}$) and luminous accretion disks ($L_{rm d}sim10^{46}$ erg s$^{-1}$). At high-redshifts ($z>2$), BAT blazars host more powerful jets with luminous accretion disks compared to those detected only with the {it Fermi}-LAT. We find good agreement in the black hole masses derived from the single-epoch optical spectroscopic measurements and standard accretion disk modeling approaches. Other physical properties of BAT blazars are similar to those known for {it Fermi}-LAT detected objects.

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