2023PASP..135a4101Y -
Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 135, part no 1, 4101 (2023/January-0)
The Beaming Effect for Fermi-LAT-detected FR-I Radio Galaxies.
YE X.-H., ZENG X.-T., HUANG D.-Y., ZHANG Z., PEI Z.-Y. and FAN J.-H.
Abstract (from CDS):
Our knowledge of Giga-electron volt (GeV) radio galaxies has been revolutionized by the Fermi-LAT Telescope, which provides an excellent opportunity to study the physical properties of GeV radio galaxies. According to the radio power and morphology, radio galaxies can be separated into Fanaroff-Riley Type I radio galaxies (FR-Is) and Type II radio galaxies (FR-IIs). In this paper, we consider the unification of FR-Is and BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs), and assume FR-Is to be a standard candle to discuss the beaming effect for Fermi-LAT-detected FR-Is. Our main conclusions are as follows: (1) The estimated Doppler factors for 30 Fermi-LAT-detected FR-Is are in a range of δI = 0.88 - 7.49. The average Doppler factor (〈δI〉 = 2.56 ± 0.30) of the 30 FR-Is is smaller than that (〈δBL〉 = 10.28 ± 2.03) of the 126 Fermi-LAT-detected BL Lacs, supporting the unification model that FR-Is are regarded as the misaligned BL Lacs with smaller Doppler factors; (2) We propose that different regions of FR-Is in the plot of the γ-ray luminosity against the photon spectral index $(\mathrm{log}{L}_{\gamma }\mbox{--}{\alpha }_{\mathrm{ph}})$ may indicate the different beaming effects; (3) The average Doppler factor of the 6 TeV FR-Is is similar to that of the 24 non-TeV FR-Is, which implies that the difference between the TeV and GeV emissions is not driven by the beaming effect in the Fermi-LAT-detected FR-I samples.
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© 2023. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. All rights reserved.
Journal keyword(s):
Active galactic nuclei - Fanaroff-Riley radio galaxies - Gamma-rays - Jets
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